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What Impacts Course Evaluation?

Author

  • Erik Larsson
  • Mehdi Amirijoo
  • Daniel Karlsson
  • Petru Ion Eles

Summary, in English

Today most universities are using course evaluations. However, course evaluations are often discussed and questioned. This paper reports on a survey where we aim at finding out (1) if students have a preconceived notion of a course, (2) if course evaluation scores can be predicted early in a course, (3) if exam throughput impacts course evaluation, and (4) if web-based evaluation reflects the general opinion from students. The results from the study indicate that students do not let preconceived notion impact nor does exam throughput matter to course evaluation. Further, the final web-based results seem to correlate with opinion of students attending lectures. However, the evaluation grades tend to be defined early in the course; hence first impression lasts.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

333-333

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Topic

  • Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

Keywords

  • education
  • computer science
  • course evaluation

Conference name

12th SIGCSE Conf. on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Conference date

0001-01-02

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-59593-610-3