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Summary Data - Graduate & 4th Year 'Course' Form (2005 - 2007)

Introduction

The Australian National University has a standardised process of gathering student feedback on courses and teaching as part of improving and monitoring its programs. The data on this page is from surveys using the course based forms combined across 2005 to 2007 and summarises 726 surveys. For links to the aggregated (summary) data for the other form types and older data, please return to the RIGS homepage.

Other surveys which the University uses to gather student feedback include a first year experience survey and similar surveys of undergraduate students. The data in these tables refer only to graduate courses and 4th Year courses. See the note at the end of this page for more detail on the data.

Links to Results for each College

College of Arts and Social Sciences
College of Asia and the Pacific
College of Business and Economics
College of Engineering and Computer Science
College of Law
College of Science
All of ANU

About the Student Evaluation of Courses Questionnaire

Students were asked to rate a set of aspects of their courses. There was a 'not applicable' option and the scale used for all but the workload item was:

(1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.

The item on the size of the workload is reported in a separate table because it uses a different scale to the rest of the items. Means (averages) were calculated for each course and then these were combined into averages across Colleges, years (first or later year), and class size (small: <21 or large: 21+).

Question Wording on the Aspects of the Course

Item

1. Workload - Overall, how heavy did you find the workload of this course? (1 = too light, 7 = too heavy)

2. Organisation and structure - The course was structured appropriately and was well organised.

3. Teaching and learning methods - Teaching and learning methods and activities (e.g. lectures, tutorials, field classes etc.) were appropriate and effective, given the goals of the course.

4. Quality of reference and support materials - (Reading /print/web pages; software; etc)

5. Availability of contact - If you did not seek contact then please enter "NA".Teaching staff were contactable to assist with student problems and needs.

6. Intellectual challenge - The course challenged students intellectually and facilitated understanding (through content and materials; activities and tasks; integration and relating of content; etc.).

7. Assessment for grading - Assessment tasks, requirements and criteria seemed appropriate, given the goals of the course.

8. Feedback to assist learning - Adequate and appropriate feedback was provided to assist learning and keep students informed of their progress.

9 Overall impact on learning / development - All things considered, how would you rate the overall impact of this course on your learning and development (gain in knowledge, skills, motivation, development of personal attributes, etc).

Student Evaluation of Courses/Units (Form C) for Graduate and 4th Year Courses:

Aggregated over 2005, 2006 & 2007, showing Means of Course Means, Standard Deviations of the Means and Numbers of Surveys.

College of Arts and Social Sciences Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Honours	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.2	6.4	6.1	5.8
		N	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
		Std. Deviation	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.4
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.2	6.4	6.1	5.8
		N	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
		Std. Deviation	0.4	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.4
Postgraduate	n<21	Mean	5.7	5.7	5.8	5.6	5.6	6.0	5.9	5.8
		N	82	82	82	82	82	82	82	82
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6
	n=21+	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.9	5.7	5.7
		N	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3
	Total	Mean	5.6	5.7	5.8	5.6	5.6	6.0	5.9	5.8
		N	87	87	87	87	87	87	87	87
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.6
Total	n<21	Mean	5.6	5.7	5.8	5.6	5.6	6.1	6.0	5.8
		N	91	91	91	91	91	91	91	91
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.6
	n=21+	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.9	5.7	5.7
		N	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3
	Total	Mean	5.6	5.7	5.8	5.6	5.6	6.0	5.9	5.8
		N	96	96	96	96	96	96	96	96
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.6

Arts & Social Sciences Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Honours	n<21	4.3	9	0.6
Honours	Total	4.3	9	0.6
Postgraduate	n<21	4.6	82	0.5
	n=21+	4.7	5	0.2
	Total	4.6	87	0.5
Total	n<21	4.6	91	0.5
	n=21+	4.7	5	0.2
	Total	4.6	96	0.5

College of Asia and the Pacific Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Honours			Insufficient Surveys
Postgraduate	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.4	5.5	5.9	5.7	5.7
		N	128	128	128	128	128	128	128	128
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
	n=21+	Mean	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.6	5.5
		N	103	103	103	103	103	103	103	103
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.8	5.7	5.6
		N	231	231	231	231	231	231	231	231
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
Total	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.4	5.5	5.9	5.7	5.7
		N	129	129	129	129	129	129	129	129
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
	n=21+	Mean	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.6	5.5
		N	103	103	103	103	103	103	103	103
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.8	5.7	5.6
		N	232	232	232	232	232	232	232	232
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5

Asia & the Pacific Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Honours	Total
Postgraduate	n<21	4.8	128	0.5
	n=21+	5.0	103	0.4
	Total	4.9	231	0.5
Total	n<21	4.8	129	0.5
	n=21+	5.0	103	0.4
	Total	4.9	232	0.5

College of Business and Economics Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Honours	n<21	Mean	5.3	5.1	4.7	5.1	4.7	4.7	5.7	5.4
		N	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.8	1.2	0.3	0.4
	Total	Mean	5.3	5.1	4.7	5.1	4.7	4.7	5.7	5.4
		N	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.8	1.2	0.3	0.4
Postgraduate	n<21	Mean	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.6	5.8	5.8	5.7
		N	114	114	114	114	114	114	114	114
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.5
	n=21+	Mean	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.5	5.5
		N	115	115	115	115	115	115	115	115
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.7
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.5	5.7	5.7	5.6
		N	229	229	229	229	229	229	229	229
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6
Total	n<21	Mean	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.8	5.8	5.7
		N	119	119	119	119	119	119	119	119
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.5
	n=21+	Mean	5.4	5.4	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.5	5.5
		N	115	115	115	115	115	115	115	115
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.7
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.7	5.7	5.6
		N	234	234	234	234	234	234	234	234
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6

Business & Economics Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
cnq1 Workload
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Honours	n<21	4.6	5	0.4
Honours	Total	4.6	5	0.4
Postgraduate	n<21	4.9	114	0.5
	n=21+	5.0	115	0.4
	Total	4.9	229	0.5
Total	n<21	4.9	119	0.5
	n=21+	5.0	115	0.4
	Total	4.9	234	0.5

College of Engineering and Computer Science Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Honours	n<21	Mean	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.8	4.7	5.5	5.4	5.0
		N	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
		Std. Deviation	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8
	n=21+	Mean	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.5	5.4	5.3
		N	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
		Std. Deviation	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.5
	Total	Mean	4.9	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.8	5.5	5.4	5.1
		N	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
		Std. Deviation	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.7
Postgraduate	n<21	Mean	5.3	5.5	5.5	5.3	5.4	5.7	5.5	5.4
		N	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.6
	n=21+	N	Insufficient Surveys
	Total	Mean	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.6	5.4	5.3
		N	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.6
Total	n<21	Mean	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.6	5.4	5.2
		N	25	25	25	25	25	25	25	25
		Std. Deviation	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.7
	n=21+	Mean	5.1	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.5	5.3	5.2
		N	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
	Total	Mean	5.1	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.6	5.4	5.2
		N	36	36	36	36	36	36	36	36
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7

Engineering & Computer Science Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
cnq1 Workload
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Honours	n<21	4.7	13	0.6
	n=21+	4.9	7	0.4
	Total	4.8	20	0.6
Postgraduate	n<21	4.7	12	0.3
	n=21+	Insufficient Surveys
	Total	Insufficient Surveys
Total	n<21	4.7	25	0.5
	n=21+	4.8	11	0.4
	Total	4.7	36	0.5

College of Law Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Postgraduate	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.8	5.8	5.6
		N	92	92	92	92	91	92	92	92
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
	n=21+	Mean	5.2	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.0	5.7	5.6	5.4
		N	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.5
	Total	Mean	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.3	5.8	5.7	5.6
		N	114	114	114	114	113	114	114	114
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5
Total	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.8	5.8	5.6
		N	92	92	92	92	91	92	92	92
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
	n=21+	Mean	5.2	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.0	5.7	5.6	5.4
		N	22	22	22	22	22	22	22	22
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.5
	Total	Mean	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.3	5.8	5.7	5.6
		N	114	114	114	114	113	114	114	114
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5

Law Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
cnq1 Workload
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Postgraduate	n<21	4.5	92	0.3
	n=21+	4.5	22	0.4
	Total	4.5	114	0.3
Total	n<21	4.5	92	0.3
	n=21+	4.5	22	0.4
	Total	4.5	114	0.3

College of Science Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Honours	n<21	Mean	5.4	5.6	5.7	5.5	5.4	Insufficient Surveys	5.7	5.9
		N	5	11	11	11	5		11.0	11
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.6		0.4	0.4
	Total	Mean	5.4	5.6	5.7	5.5	5.4	Insufficient Surveys	5.7	5.9
		N	5.0	11.0	11.0	11.0	5.0		11.0	11.0
		Std. Deviation	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.6		0.4	0.4
Postgraduate	Total		Insufficient Surveys
Total	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.7	5.5	5.4	5.8	5.7	5.8
		N	8.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	8.0	6.0	14.0	14.0
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.7	5.5	5.4	5.8	5.7	5.8
		N	8.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	8.0	6.0	14.0	14.0
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4

Science Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Honours	n<21	4.9	5	0.6
Honours	Total	4.9	5	0.6
Postgraduate	Total	Insufficient Surveys
Total	n<21	4.9	8	0.5
Total	Total	4.9	8	0.5

All of ANU Scale: (1) Very Poor (2) Unsatisfactory (3) Borderline (4) Satisfactory (5) Good (6) Very Good (7) Excellent.
Level	Size		Organisation & Structure	Teaching Methods	Quality of Materials	Assessment	Feedback	Availability of Contact	Intellectual Challenge	Overall Impact
Honours	n<21	Mean	5.2	5.3	5.3	5.2	5.0	5.7	5.7	5.5
		N	33	39	39	39	33	31	39	39
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.7
	n=21+	Mean	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.5	5.4	5.3
		N	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
		Std. Deviation	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.5
	Total	Mean	5.2	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.0	5.7	5.7	5.5
		N	40	46	46	46	40	38	46	46
		Std. Deviation	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.7
Postgraduate	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.9	5.8	5.7
		N	431	431	431	431	430	431	431	431
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6
	n=21+	Mean	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.6	5.5
		N	249	249	249	249	249	249	249	249
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.8	5.7	5.6
		N	680	680	680	680	679	680	680	680
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6
Total	n<21	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.9	5.8	5.7
		N	464	470	470	470	463	462	470	470
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6
	n=21+	Mean	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.3	5.6	5.6	5.5
		N	256	256	256	256	256	256	256	256
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6
	Total	Mean	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.8	5.7	5.6
		N	720	726	726	726	719	718	726	726
		Std. Deviation	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6

Total for the ANU Workload Scale: (1) Too Light (7) Too Heavy
Level	Size	Mean	N	Std. Deviation
Honours	n<21	4.6	33	0.6
	n=21+	4.9	7	0.4
	Total	4.6	40	0.6
Postgraduate	n<21	4.7	431	0.5
	n=21+	4.9	249	0.4
	Total	4.8	680	0.5
Total	n<21	4.7	464	0.5
	n=21+	4.9	256	0.4
	Total	4.8	720	0.5

More detail on the data: Surveys with less than 5 respondents were excluded from this analysis. In addition, to increase the reliability of the figures, more than 4 surveys were necessary in any single category for the figures to be presented. Note that the means are aggregated by courses rather than by students. An implication of this is that courses with small enrolments and those with large enrolments contribute equally to the calculations. In addition, the data was screened using a variety of processes to increase its reliability and validity, for example, duplicate surveys were eliminated.

This data has been last updated on 15 July 2008.