Student Surveys

Do College Student Surveys Have Any Validity?

Improving higher education through student satisfaction surveys

Along with the educational expansion and the increasing demand regarding accountability for the outcomes of higher education institutions, a great emphasis is put on students' feedback. The present paper is focused on the educational results obtained by the implementation of student satisfaction surveys in a Romanian university. The survey instruments measure three dimensions (the teaching and ...

A comparison of student feedback obtained through paper-based and web-based surveys of faculty teaching

Many colleges have either begun or are contemplating using the web-based survey to gather student feedback on faculty teaching. Unlike the paper-based method, the web-based approach gives every student in the class the opportunity to provide feedback. Hence, the populations that participate in the webbased and paper-based methods may be quite different, and so may be the feedback. This paper co...

Reliability and validity of the Safe Routes to school parent and student surveys

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to assess the reliability and validity of the U.S. National Center for Safe Routes to School's in-class student travel tallies and written parent surveys. Over 65,000 tallies and 374,000 parent surveys have been completed, but no published studies have examined their measurement properties. METHODS Students and parents from two Charlotte, NC (USA) eleme...

Effects of Item Order and Response Options in College Student Surveys

Given numerous pressures toward greater accountability and transparency in higher education, obtaining high-quality data about students’ experiences and outcomes ismore important than ever. A number of recent studies have examined issues related to college student surveys, including survey nonresponse (Adams & Umbach, 2013; Laguilles, Williams, & Saunders, 2011), survey completion (Barge & Gehl...