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AAIR-2009. Student Academic and Learning Perceptions in an Australian University of Technology Presenter: Andrias Paramita – Senior Advisor RMIT Statistics & Reporting (www.rmit.edu.au/sr/contact us). FOCUS. Factors that affect student performance outcome CES – Course Experience Survey
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AAIR-2009 Student Academic and Learning Perceptions in an Australian University of Technology Presenter: Andrias Paramita – Senior Advisor RMIT Statistics & Reporting (www.rmit.edu.au/sr/contact us)
FOCUS • Factors that affect student performance outcome • CES – Course Experience Survey • Cross tabulated CES & Student Demographic data Evaluating student satisfaction level on teaching and learning performance (progress rate)
Previous Study & Methodology • Learning & Teaching Performance Fund • Pass rate as one of key performance indicator for fund allocation (DEEWR, 2009) • Using Grade Point Average (GPA) as finer measure of student performance (Dobson and Sharma, 1995) • Measurement points: • Data captured from CES (Course Experience Survey) semester-1 2008 which compulsory every semester (form http://alturl.com/92ik) • Survey population covers 69.1% of the study of University’s courses (1,440 number of courses surveyed) with 45,803 student respondent • Extract grades data of students who studied in semester-1 2008, recoded, summarized and aggregated by course code • Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) calculation: The sum of grades / Number of courses
Result • Student Performance and Demographics Variables
Conclusion • Students spending more out of class time, perform better than their counterparts. • Academic staff have major role in terms of student performance • Further research & studies required to investigate student pass rate that tend to improve with age
Questions & Answer • Any questions? • Thank you for your attentions Contact: andrias.paramita@rmit.edu.au