Analysis of the Lottery Process for Liberal Arts Class Placement at the University of Hyogo using the PDCA Cycle
Abstract
The section for Institutional Research was renewed in 2015 at the University of Hyogo. One of its first projects was reforming the rules regarding the placement for liberal arts classes. The initial mission was to create a new schedule for the guidance, application, class placement lottery, and registration by new students. This reform process was crucial for the section because the more serious future challenge is not data collection and analysis, but how to improve the university. Herein we explain several results from our first project and how they lead to improvements using the PDCA (Plan–Do–Check–Act) cycle.
References
Public University Corporation of the University of Hyogo: English Home Page; http://www.u-hyogo.ac.jp/pdf/english.pdf.
“Reform Action Plan to Articulate High Schools and Universities”, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, japan; http://www.mext.go.jp/en/news/topics/detail/1372626.htm.
“PDCA Cycle”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA.
The Deming Institute: Home Page; https://www.deming.org.
Howard S. and Gitlow, Shelly J. Gitlow, (1987).”The Deming guide to quality and competitive position”, 1987, Englewood Clifts, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Ronald Moen, and Clifford Norman, ”Evolution of the PDCA Cycle”, 2006; http://pkpinc.com/files/NA01MoenNormanFullpaper.pdf.
W.E. Deming, “To Management”, translated into English by John Dowd, http://www.jsdstat.com/Statblog/wp-includes/Hakone.pdf.
“University Accreditation Handbook,” Japan University Accreditation Association; http://www.juaa.or.jp/en/images/accreditation/handbook_university.pdf.
M. Pietrzak and J. Paliszkiewicz, “Framework of Strategic Learning: The pdca cle,“ Management 10 (2): 149-161, cc by-nc-nd 4.0, 2015.
C. BaoQuan, H. ZhenHai, Z. EnHui, and W. GuiRong, “Education Management, Education Theory & Education Application”, AISC 109, Ed. By Y. Wang. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, pp.367-370.
S. Rita, and K. Lakshmi, “Mechanics of How to Apply Deming's PDCA Cycle to Management Education,” 2009; http://ssrn.com/abstract=1353763.
Rr. Sri Kartikowati, “The Technique of “Plan Do Check and Act” to Improve Trainee Teachers’ Skills,” Asian Social Science; Vol. 9, No. 12; 2013.
G.W. McLaughlin, R.D. Howard, L.A. Balkan, and E.W. Blythe, “People, Processes, and Managing Data. Resources in Institutional Research, No. 11”, 1998, Association for Institutional Research, 114 Stone Building Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4462; http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED437887.pdf.
The College Buzz Book, Edited by Carolyn C. Wise & Stephanie Hauser and the staff at VAULT, Drexel University ONLINE, 2007 edition, Drexel University ONLINE, p.167 (Yale University), p.365 (Boston University), p.368 (Brndeis University), and p.378 (Harvard University).
