On the Usefulness of Course Evaluation Data in Quality Assurance

Abstract

Almost 120 000 individual Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) responses from the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University contain a lot of information regarding how students experience courses. The data supports the notion that there is progression, e.g. with regard to written communication, in the educations, a result that can prove useful in the upcoming evaluation by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV). Other results, however, suggest that there is much we do not fully understand with regard to how students experience courses and how they interpret the questions in the CEQ.