Course Experience Questionnaire
Analysis by Scales
Two measures are used to analyse responses to the CEQ survey: the Agreement percentage and the Value. The Agreement percentage shows the number of students who gave a positive response to a question, while the Value uses weightings (see note on Value * ) to assess the overall response to a question.
For each question in the survey there are the following possible responses:
0 – No response,
1 – Strongly disagree
2 – Disagree
3 – Undecided
4 – Agree
5 – Strongly agree
For both scales, a response must be valid to be included in the calculations. A valid response is where the student has answered at least half of the questions for the scale. The response rate is the number of valid respondents divided by the number surveyed.
Agreement percentage
The Agreement percentage is calculated by adding the number of 4 (agree) and 5 (strongly agree) responses for the question and dividing that number by the total number of all responses to the question. Where a scale is made up of multiple questions, the Agreement percentage is calculated by adding the number of 4 (agree) and 5 (strongly agree) responses for all questions (in the scale) and dividing that number by the total number of responses to all questions (in the scale).
Value
* The Value uses the following weightings:
Strongly disagree = -100
Disagree = -50
Undecided = 0
Agree = 50
Strongly agree = 100
The weighted responses are calculated for the question by multiplying
the number of responses in each category by the weighting for each category,
e.g. 5 Agree responses will result in a weighted total of 250. Then all
weighted category totals are added together and the result is divided
by the total number of responses for the question. Where a scale is made
of multiple questions, the Value is made up of the accumulated weighted
total from all questions (in the scale) divided by total number of responses
for all questions (in the scale).