Is ISSAL Reliable in Measuring Teaching Learning Quality in Indonesia Higher Education?

Abstract

Indonesian Higher Education’s efforts in responding to the global challenges move very scrupulous. Several regulations were established to make sure that the changes and improvement of the quality can be attained. The needs of measurement to appraise the quality of teaching learning in swift and reliable approach is per-ceived. Accreditation used to be one of the approach in evaluate university’s performance, including teaching and learning process. Nevertheless, the result is not prompt and brief yet less specific on the daily process. Student evaluation also used to be held by the university, but mostly they are not reliable due to the students concern on the evaluation were not thoughtful. Indonesian Survey of Student Active Learning (ISSAL) was adopted from National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) that is common in US higher education institution in evaluating teaching learning process. ISSAL composed of very universal dimensions on teaching learning. This study seeks some evidence whether the dimensions of ISSAL can be reliably apply in Indonesia. Keywords—ISSLA; NSSE; teaching-learning; reliability; factor analysis