Enhancing student engagement in student experience surveys: a mixed methods study

Autor:	Siobhan Lynch, Martin Webber, Jennifer Oluku
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Response rate (survey) Higher education business.industry Multimethodology media_common.quotation_subject Student engagement Sample (statistics) Focus group Quality enhancement Education Mathematics education Quality (business) Psychology business media_common
Zdroj:	Educational Research. 55:71-86
ISSN:	1469-5847 0013-1881
Popis:	Background Measuring the student experience is becoming increasingly important in higher education in the UK. Student experience surveys are used as indicators of quality and form the basis of rankings of higher education institutions. They are also used by them as tools to assist their quality enhancement initiatives. However, these surveys frequently suffer from low response rates, which can reduce the reliability and usefulness of their data. The UK Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) is a relatively new survey and suffers from a low response rate. As this survey is new, little is known about why students do not respond to it. Purpose This study aimed to explore the reasons why postgraduate students do not respond to the PTES. Sample Three hundred and fifty-five postgraduate taught students from four health faculties in one UK higher education institution completed an online survey. Of these, seven participated in one of two focus groups. Design and methods The online survey was compl...
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