Education Surveys » Course Evaluation Survey

Do you want to know if your course met your students’ expectations? Are you looking for ways to improve your course? Use Course Evaluation Surveys to measure satisfaction and discover ways to make improvements for your course materials, instructors and the course overall!

Survey Goal

Before starting your Course Evaluation Survey, you will need to clearly define your survey goal. This will help you to stay on track with the questions that you are asking in your survey.

Here are examples of Course Evaluation Survey goals:

• Survey Goal Sample #1: To measure satisfaction with courses, and see if their is a difference in course satisfaction for required courses or electives.
• Survey Goal Sample #2: To evaluate course materials, instructor and the course overall to determine areas for improvement.

To learn more about survey goals and questions, please visit our Survey Questions page.

Survey Questions

The questions that you use in your Course Evaluation Survey will be dependent on your survey goal.

Regardless of your survey goal, you will need to identify which course each respondent is evaluating. You can do this with a drop down menu listing all courses for your respondent to pick from. If your list is quite long, you may want utilize an open text-box question with the auto-complete function. With SurveyGizmo you can paste your auto-complete list into the advanced tab, so when you type the first letter of the course you are looking for it auto-populates your options. An example may look like this:

You may also want to use a series of Table of Radio Button questions with either a numeric or textual scale to evaluate different areas of the course evaluated. In this example the course resources are being asked to be evaluated:

Survey Example

A course evaluation should be relatively short in nature, but if you feel like you can hold the respondents attention for an additional page, it is always beneficial to add some demographic based questions. The responses to these questions will help you segment and group the data when analyzing your results.

Click on the survey above for an interactive example

Survey Reports

Our interactive reports are real-time and make it easy for your to review your data. You can also filter your results by an answer option to delve deeper into the results.

If you used an open text-box question with the auto-complete function, when you run a Summary Report, your results may look something like this:

This is a table that displays a count for each response. This can be really useful to review before setting up a filter by each course so that you would know how many completed surveys would be in each course filtered report.

If you used a Table of Radio Button questions with a textual scale to evaluate course resources for the course that is being evaluated, your results would look like this:

Based on these results, respondents seem relatively happy with the course materials that are being used for the classes that they are taking.

Please note that all data used in these examples is test data and not actual survey data.

Additional Resources

Sometimes you need some industry background before conducting your survey. Here are some resources that may help you with this material:

World Education Services – http://www.wes.org/

Institute for Higher Education Policy – http://www.ihep.org/About/about-IHEP.cfm

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education – http://www.highereducation.org/