@Article{, title={Application of “Matrix Diagrams Tools” for Quality Improvement in High Education تطبيقات ادوات برامج المصفوفات للتطوير الكمي للتعليم العالي}, author={ليلى لطيف علوان}, journal={journal of kufa studies center مجلة مركز دراسات الكوفة}, volume={1}, number={23}, pages={172-192}, year={2011}, abstract={Academic quality assurance process is a central to achieving and maintaining universities excellence and advancement. Academic staff and scientific research are strongly involved in this process.
Scientific research is the major significant indicator of academic staff’s quality and the determinant of development and advancement.
In this research the relationships of the related indicators of the academic staff categories, and scientific research fields, are studied based on the quality indexes. The case study application, included (academic staff & scientific research of four engineering departments). The “Matrix Diagram Tool”, which is one of seven new quality tools ,is used to analyze the collection data of the above two fields and their indicators, , it is beneficial for problem solving process.
Many “Matrix Diagrams Tools” are used to analyze the data collected for this research purpose, such as; L- type matrix, which is a two- dimensional table, T- type matrix, which is a three dimensional table and Y- type matrix, which is a three dimensional.
The results signified the relationships of academic staff categories and subcategories, the strength and weakness points, and also the comparison of the four departments of all indicators.
According to the results, many recommendations are suggested to strengthen the weak points and many corrective actions are mentioned, to improve quality in the engineering departments.
Key words: quality assurance ,matrix diagram , new” quality tools, higher education, academic staff

} }