Measuring Students’ Perception of Learning: The Systematic Development of an Instrument (Dataset and Instrument)

Within the education sector various tools have been used to measure effectiveness of instruction. Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are one form of measurement commonly used in American universities. It is important to determine whether these SETs are helpful in assessing the instructor’s work in and out of the classroom and effective teaching in general. Towards this end it was intended to measure the students’ perception of teaching and learning as represented by three concepts: Student, Course, and Instructor. Operationalizing and scaling of the concepts was conducted at the committee level using borrowed instruments and, in some cases, creating new survey items to include in a pilot test. Factor analysis techniques were used to analyse the data. The result was an instrument that included 24 items scaled on a five-point Likert scale.Keywords: Teaching evaluation, instructor evaluation, course evaluation, student evaluation of teaching; student’s perception of learning.Project: This storage contains supplemental materials for the study: the 24 items in the survey and, the related excel data file.