http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11525 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:00:02 GMT 2026-04-05T17:00:02Z http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11532 Innovative and supportive strategies in bilingual education: the case of secondary education in Greece Karamitrou, Amalia This paper investigates whether, in intercultural secondary schools in Greece, some specific innovative forms of bilingual education are applied and additionally examines the degree of their effectiveness. These forms refer to the use of new technologies, the use of illustration and surveillance material in recalling previous knowledge, the combination of learning the subject in conjunction with language learning, the techniques of condensing, developing or modifying texts, the use of electronic dictionaries, in use of text organizers (prologue, italics), use of conventional words, use of multimodal material, use of text organizers (prologue, italics), dramatization, role play, simulation, and finally experimentation. 130 Greek secondary teachers participated in the study. Implicative Statistical Analysis was employed for data analysis. Among the most important findings is that dramatization drives respondents to use role play and it is the role play that motivates them to use illustration and surveillance material as well as simulation. In addition, the results showed that the use of multimodal material leads to the use of a combination of learning the cognitive object in conjunction with learning the language of both illustration and supervisory material. Finally, equally important was the finding of the unambiguous relationship between experiment and pre-notation. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Competitiveness – IJEIC Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11532 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11531 Quality assessment in Greek Tertiary Education using Gap Analysis Anastasiadou, Sofia; Zirinoglou, Poulcheria A. The study focuses on the gaps between students’ expectations and perceptions as they relate to SERVQUAL dimensions. More specifically it focuses on Gap 5 that is the perception gap in Gap Analysis. The instrument, which intended to measure students’ satisfaction regarding their studies quality, is SEVQUAL consists of five dimensions named Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness, Assurance and Empathy and 25 attributes. The sample comprised of 202 interviewees from the department of Business administration in the University of Macedonia, of whom 127 were males and 75 were females. The results reveal a negative gap for all 25 attributes. Attribute referring to whether teaching materials are available and up-to-date (study programs, brochures, student guides, etc.) has the highest gap which is statistically significant. The results made known a negative gap for all five dimensions of SEVQUAL instrument. Among the dimensions, the highest gap was for Empathy, and the lowest was for Assurance. Additionally there was no significant relations between the gender and students’ perceptions as well as students’ expectations. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Competitiveness – IJEIC Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11531 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11530 Students’ attitudes towards the subject of entrepreneurship in education Zirinoglou, Poulcheria A. Entrepreneurship is frequently supplementary with the establishment of new businesses, and the creators of new businesses are so so-called ‘entrepreneurs’. Higher education institutions are required to establish the ways in which they respond to the social and economic needs of society sealing for development of quality, entrepreneurship and innovation. The main aim of this paper is to investigate students’ attitudes towards the subject of entrepreneurship in education. The study focuses on students’ outlooks as they relate to Students Attitudes toward Entrepreneurship Courses (SATEC) scale. SATEC scale. The instrument is SATEC scale consists of eight dimensions named Affect, Cognitive Competence, Understanding, Effort, Interest, Difficulty, Value and knowledge and 45 attributes/ items. The sample comprised of 245 interviewees from the department of Business administration in the University of Macedonia, of whom 16 were men and 229 were women. The results reveal either natural or positive attitudes for all 45 attributes. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Competitiveness – IJEIC Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11530 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11529 Efficiency ranking using Principal Component Analysis Florou, Giannoula; Anastasiadou, Sofia Many studies analyze the efficiency ranking of various organizations, using mainly the Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) with input and output variables. DEA is a non-parametric method, which estimates efficiency of one organization in relation to the best organization in the specific field. The method of DEA is based on linear programming and on measuring the efficiency of a production process, which represents the highest amount of output produced by given amount of input, in a specific time frame. This paper presents an alternative method of efficiency ranking using the Principal Component Analysis. Organizations are presented in the first principal component plane, using the ratios of output variables per input variables. We rank organizations using the first components coefficients. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the alternative method and we present an application of this method in ranking the efficiency of the Greek Technological Institutes. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Competitiveness – IJEIC Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11728/11529 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z