Australian university uses analytics to improve student evaluations
A private Australian university is using analytics to better understand the massive amounts of student feedback collected by faculty members every semester.
Officials at Bond University, a private institution in Queensland, Australia, announced in October that the school would use an advanced analytics tool to sift through student evaluation forms and determine the most pressing issues among the campus population.
The university is using a tool called EvaluationKIT, an online system designed to provide better, more accurate insight into how to improve college courses.
Faculty can select questions placed on a student evaluation form and ask EvaluationKIT to summarize the comments. The analytics tool lets educators identify important themes in the evaluation forms, instead of shuffling through dozens or hundreds of forms in search of a common theme.
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