Study Quality Concepts the Most Acceptable To First-Year Students of Bachelor Studies in Physical Education at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and In Other Programmes of Pedagogy

The analysis of the gathered data was performed by using the 22.0 version of SSPS adapted for Windows operating system. Descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney nonparametric criterion were used. When comparing the answers of these first-year students with the rankings provided by other students pair frequency tables were used and the Mann-Whitney criterion on the basis of the level of statistical significance of 0.05 (p≤ 0.05). The analysis of the research data shows that the most acceptable study quality concepts for the firstyear students of bachelor studies in physical education at Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences are “Quality is the achievement of the set goals” and “Quality is the satisfaction of the consumer needs” (motivated wishes and opinion of the students, and public perceptions are taken into consideration). The study quality concept “Quality is the change (continuous changes are occurring in the institution)” is of medium acceptability, whereas three study quality concepts are less than of medium acceptability: “Study quality as continuous improvement (continuous process of the improvement of studies)”; “Compliance with the requirements”; and “Perfection”. The least acceptable concept is “Quality when the best results are achieved at least expense”.