Applied Article Analysis

Summary of the article

This article is largely quantitative in nature because it, amongst other things, gives the statistical data. The outcome of information is given in percentage depending on the number of participants. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality of education in higher education institutions using Batumi State Maritime Academy-BSMA as an example (Diasamidze et al., 2019, p 54). Problems of higher education and how to improve the quality of graduates are also addressed. It is important to train individuals who would be competitive in the job market. However, the education system is different around the world - which makes the approaches of training students to be different. This in the end makes the quality of education offered to be different. The participants in this study are the students and teachers from BSMA. Sociological research on the academic performance of the students was monitored. The sample for this research was taken from Batumi State Maritime Academy. This academy functions as an educational facility and is a prestigious educational institution that is specialized and accredited by the state. Batumi State Maritime Academy provides qualified personnel for maritime transport infrastructures, cruise companies and commercial fleet. The setting of this study is in Batumi, Georgia. The study was conducted between 2016 and 2019 to monitor the performance of students in education.

Research design in place because the activity was carried...

…first semester to the second semester. In secondary findings, the results of students for the first semester of academic year 2018-2019 showed great improvement in terms of academic performance.

Discussion

There are opportunities for further study of the performance of students for the academic year 2018-2019 which shows a great improvement in performance. One threat involved in quantitative analysis is that it is based on a statistical analysis which is narrow and can often be misleading. The data is based on only two academic years and a very small group of participants. This analysis may not reflect on the overall performance of students in higher institutions across the world. The dependability of the qualitative study on monitoring only three teachers to come up with a conclusion that performance depends on the learning process may also be a mere theory since different teachers have different capability…