ERIC Number: EJ1009233
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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Exploring Graduate and Undergraduate Course Evaluations Administered on Paper and Online: A Case Study
Perrett, Jamis J.
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v38 n1 p85-93 2013
The purpose of this study was to analyse the students' evaluations of the course and instructor for all statistics courses offered during fall semester 2009 at a large university in the southern United States. Data were collected and analysed for course evaluations administered both online and on paper to students in both undergraduate and graduate courses. Unlike most previous studies on this subject, class section rather than student was treated as the unit of analysis. It was of specific interest to verify prior research findings that evaluation surveys administered online would not result in lower course and instructor ratings and lower response rates. The results showed that there is not sufficient evidence within the collected data to conclude that either course and instructor ratings or response rates are lower for evaluations administered online (online evaluations) than they are for evaluations administered on paper (paper evaluations). Of secondary interest was whether class ratings would be associated with students' attendance and a comparison of variability among answers for undergraduate vs. graduate students. It was observed that class and teacher ratings were not related to students’ attendance and individual students did not tend to give the same answer for every question on their survey. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Statistics, College Mathematics, Student Surveys, Online Surveys, Case Studies, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Attendance
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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