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Questions would constitute a mixture of the standard Likert scale with questions prompting expanded response and opinion in order to ferret out 'hidden' information.
Following Ansari and Moseley (2010)'s recommendation, summary scales will be used in order not to confuse students and in order to keep the survey as pure and simple as possible, and I agree with Douglas, Douglas, and Barnes (2003) that a service-product bundle should be used in order to reflect all the elements of the university as a whole.
Part II Questionnaire
The items studied would be the following:
1. Balance between study and personal life
2. * Availability of learning resources
3. * Feeling stimulated to learn
4. Friendliness of teaching staff
5. Quality of feedback on my work
6. * Intellectual challenge
7. Level of support provided by my peers / teachers / mentors
8. Feeling able to cope with the workload
9. Friendliness of other students
10. * Physical conditions / learning environment
11. Feeling able to get financial advice
12. * Level of support from staff
13. Feeling able to show initiative
14. * Access to university social life
15. Variety of teaching techniques
16. Tutorials to discuss work
17. * Feeling valued by teaching staff
18. * Other students' views of university life
19. Friendliness of nonteaching staff.
The questions marked with an asterisk ask students to expand on their response. The non-marked questions simply offer a 3-point Likert scale (with the summary measure of just 1,2, and 3 ('strongly agree'; 'somewhat agree' median stance); 'strongly disagree') instead of points 4 and 5 in order to simplify the scale). Items, as noted, follow the service-product bundle in that they deal with all aspects of LSE's existence.
3. Limitation...
I deliberately designed the survey this way in order to hold the student's interest in filling out the survey and to maintain his motivation in expanding on the longer questions. Experience has taught me that students loathe surveys. Consequently, the shorter and more interesting and relevant they are, the greater the potential for the reliability of survey outcome. This was my intention when designing this survey for the LSE.
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Douglas, J., Douglas, A., & Barnes, B. (2006) measuring student satisfaction at a UK university, Quality Assurance in Education, 14, 251-267
El Ansari, W., & Moseley, L. (2010) You get what you measure, Nurse Education Today, 30, 1-7
Elliott, K.M., & Shin, D. (2002). Student satisfaction: an alternative approach to assessing this important concept. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 24, 197-209
Eon, S.B., Wen, J. & Ashil, N. (2006) The Determinants of Students' Perceived Learning Outcomes and Satisfaction in University Online Education: An Empirical Investigation. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 4, 215-23
London School of Economics and Political Science -- website. http://www2.lse.ac.uk/
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