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Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ)

Approximately four months after completing a course of study, graduates of Australian universities are invited to respond to a five scale Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) and the Graduate Destination Survey (GDS). These surveys are Australia-wide surveys, administered by each tertiary institution to their own graduates, under the national co-ordination of Graduate Careers Australia. They have been administered since 1993. Until August 2002, the CEQ looked at perceptions on five facets of graduates’ course experiences: the quality of teaching; the clarity of goals and standards; the nature of the assessment; the level of the workload; and the enhancement of their generic skills.

Since 2002, student perceptions of their course experience has been measured through 5 scales and a global satisfaction item. Details of scale and global item structure is detailed in the Table 1.

Table 1: Descriptive Information for scales used in CEQ from October 2002.

Scale

No of Items

Description
Good Teaching (GTS) 6 Measures student perception of teaching.  It focuses on feedback, motivation, attention, understanding of problems and skill in explaining concepts.
Generic Skills (GSS) 6 Measures student perception of generic skills (graduate attributes) development achieved in their courses.
Intellectual Motivation (IMS) 4 Measures student perceptions of the impact of the course in inspiring and enabling individuals, as well as a global item enabling students to evaluate their overall university experience.
Graduate Qualities (GQS) 6 This scale is associated with higher order outcomes, especially attitudes and perspectives related to the relevance of the course for lifelong learning.
Learning Community (LCS) 5 Primarily focuses on student perceptions of the social experience of learning at university.
Overall Satisfaction

1

 The single global question calls for response to the item: 'Overall, I was satisfied with the quality of this course.'

 

Monash Quantitative Data

Click here for data from the past five years.

 

Monash Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) Analysis of comments using CEQuery

Graduate Careers Australia (GCA) Reports

 

Other Reports

Previous years data from the CEQ may be obtained from the following sites: