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    Despre necesitatea parteneriatului dintre universitate și comunitate
    (Fundatia Orient Expres, 2015) Frunzaru, Valeriu
    This theoretical study addresses the partnership university – community, a reality that in Western educational area has had a history of several decades. Beyond the EU policy which requires the development of such a relationship, the mutual need for collaboration between the university and the community has begun to manifest as a result of changes in the global economy and the raise of the importance of knowledge in the development of products and services. It should be emphasized that the relationship between university and community is not restricted to economic aspects, it may approach social and civic issues as well. Moreover, we can talk about this relationship as a component of the welfare state. Although there are arguments for developing the relationship between university and community, resistance to change can be an obstacle in this regard.
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    Evaluare ex ante a impactului introducerii unui sistem centralizat de admitere în universități. Studiu de impact
    (UEFISCDI Publishing House, 2022) Frunzaru, Valeriu; Oprea, Denisa Adriana; Ștefăniță, Oana
    This study is an ex ante evaluation of the impact of introducing a centralized admission system in Romanian universities. It is part of the activities of the project "Quality in higher education: internationalization and databases for the development of Romanian education", implemented by the Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI) in partnership with the Ministry of Education, in the period 2018-2022. Starting from the conceptual and methodological framework on ex ante evaluations, the authors of this study present the problem of admission to higher education based on international comparisons and the analysis of the admission modalities in Romanian universities. The authors propose a centralized admission system, based, on the one hand, on the baccalaureate exam grades (as a selection criterion) and, on the other hand, on an online platform similar to the one used for high school admission (as a technical means). The ex-ante evaluation of this potential higher education admission system is carried out using specific methods, including semi-structured interviews with stakeholders. The impact study presents a set of conclusions on the potential impact of such a scheme and proposes recommendations for its implementation to meet the criteria of fair admission, to gain the widest possible stakeholder support and to be effective.
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    Exploring sources of teacher's perceived stress in Romanian pre-tertiary education
    (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2015) Frunzaru, Valeriu; Cicei, Cătălina
    "Stress has become a widespread phenomenon in the educational system, a large number of empirical studies documenting its prevalence. This paper presents the findings of a quantitative study (N=2165) regarding the self-perceived stress of Romanian educators and teachers from pre-tertiary educational level. Based on the ten-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) (Cohen & Williamson, 1988), our study examines the relationship between the stress experienced by teachers and various demographic, organizational and job-related variables. The findings underline the fact that no significant differences in experiencing stress are due to different background variables (such as school location, fulfilling management and union leader roles, or being a commuter), age being positively correlated with perceived stress. Associations have been reported with various workplace hazards, as well as with the satisfaction regarding different aspects of the job and professional activity, insatisfaction regarding the relationship with the students and paperwork being the strongest predictors. Starting from these results, the paper also outlines some practical measures that can be implemented in view of reducing the stress of Romanian teachers from pre-tertiary education"
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    High School Pupils Performance in Romania: Individual and Social Predictors
    (2017) Frunzaru, Valeriu; Corbu, Nicoleta
    "Studies focused on academic achievement at the high school level generally discuss individual and social predictors of school performance, rarely suggesting measures to be taken at the level of national public policies in the education field. At the same time, public policies are rarely driven by empirical research. In this context, the article analyses the results of a national survey (N= 2624) conducted in 2011 on high school pupils in Romania concerning the individual and the social factors that influence school performance. A regression model shows that class attendance and gender are the strongest predictors of school performance, closely followed by parents’ education and type of enrolment in a hierarchy of influences on pupils’ grades. Other aspects are related to parents’ migration abroad and peers’ behavior. These findings are further used to make recommendations for public policies in education. "
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    Self-perceived Occupational Prestige among Romanian Teaching Staff: Organisational Explicative Factors
    (National School of Political Science and Public Administration. Faculty of Management, 2015) Frunzaru, Valeriu; Dumitriu, Diana Luiza
    Most studies discuss occupational prestige by stressing out the macro-social aspects related to specific social stratification models. This paper aims to address the impact of organizational aspects on how teachers perceive the prestige of their occupational group, moving the focus on the micro-social context of their daily activity. The way teaching staff evaluate the social prestige of their profession fulfils normative and motivational functions and is, hence, reflected in how they actually perform their professional roles, serving both explicative and prospective purposes. In trying to identify the main factors that can explain the self-perceived level of occupational prestige among educators and teachers, we conducted a national level study among Romanian teachers (N=2165) from preschool to high school educational stages. Within the explicative model (R²=0.38), we were able to group the factors in three main categories: material conditions, bureaucratic and relational aspects. The findings reveal that teachers’ involvement in bureaucratic activities such as elaborating different reports, as well as a lower level of satisfaction regarding the relation they have with students, parents and representatives of the school's management end up decreasing the self-perceived occupational prestige. Our study lays emphasis on the fact that organizational factors influence teachers' selfperceived prestige and, thus, can affect the overall quality of the educational act. Therefore, to improve this, a greater involvement of national and local authorities in providing better material conditions in schools, in supporting the debureaucratization of the educational system and re-evaluating the role of teacher-student-parent communication triad is needed.