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Title: | Student Evaluation of Teaching: A Study Exploring Student Rating Instrument Free-form Text Comments | Contributor(s): | Stupans, Ieva (author); McGuren, Therese (author); Babey, Anna-Marie (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10755-015-9328-5 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20691 | Abstract: | Student rating instruments are recognised to be valid indicators of effective instruction, providing a valuable tool to improve teaching. However, free-form text comments obtained from the open-ended question component of such surveys are only infrequently analysed comprehensively. We employed an innovative, systematic approach to the analysis of text-based feedback relating to student perceptions of and experiences with a recently developed university program. The automated nature of the semantic analysis tool 'Leximancer' enabled a critical interrogation across units of study, mining the cumulative text for common themes and recurring core concepts. The results of this analysis facilitated the identification of issues that were not apparent from the purely quantitative data, thus providing a deeper understanding of the curriculum and teaching effectiveness that was constructive and detailed. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Innovative Higher Education, 41(1), p. 33-42 | Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1573-1758 0742-5627 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130303 Education Assessment and Evaluation 130306 Educational Technology and Computing 130209 Medicine, Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogy |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390402 Education assessment and evaluation 390405 Educational technology and computing 390110 Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies 930299 Teaching and Instruction not elsewhere classified 930301 Assessment and Evaluation of Curriculum |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160304 Teaching and instruction technologies 160301 Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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