An Analysis of the Questions on University Teaching Surveys and the Universities that Use Them: The Australian Experience

Martin Davies, Joseph Hirschberg, Jeanette Lye and Carol Johnston

No 994, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: This paper is the first attempt to perform an analysis of the internal Quality of Teaching Surveys (QTS) used in all Australian Universities by investigating how they compare across Universities. We categorize the questions on each university’s QTS into one of 18 types and then define a proximity measure between the surveys. We then use an agglomerative cluster analysis to establish groupings of these institutions on the basis of the similarity of their QTSs as well as groupings of question types by their frequency of use. In addition, we also determine if the form of the survey is related to the responses recorded by the Course Evaluation Questionnaire (CEQ) that is administered to all graduates of Australian Universities. This was done by the use of regression analysis to establish if the form of the questionnaire is related to the overall good teaching scores earned by the universities from the CEQ.

Keywords: Tertiary Education; University Rankings; CEQ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2007
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