Graduate Careers Council of Australia
Course Experience Questionnaire Data 1997

General Notes

• area971.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and 40 aggregated fields of study. The mean and standard deviation are shown for each sub-scale, and the national scale mean and maximum N size is also shown.
• area972.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and 40 aggregated fields of study. The data in this file include figures from both major fields of study (the 1997 CEQ, for the first time, allowed respondents to give CEQ responses for two 'majors'). The mean and standard deviation are shown for each sub-scale, and the national scale mean and maximum N size is also shown.
• appc97.csv shows CEQ figures for pass and honours degree graduates by institution and DEETYA field of study. The institutional and national mean are shown for each sub-scale, and the maximum N size is also shown. These are the figures which will appear in Appendix C of the upcoming 1997 CEQ report. The data in this file include figures from both major fields of study (the 1997 CEQ, for the first time, allowed respondents to give CEQ responses for two 'majors').
• ceqmaj97.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and DEETYA field of study. The mean and standard deviation are shown for each sub-scale, and the national scale mean and maximum N size is also shown.
• ceqnat97.csv gives national figures for comparison with ceqmaj97.csv

The data are provided in comma delimited format (CSV files). These will be read by most recent spreadsheet programs.

* Level of Qualification is sorted in the order: doctorate, research masters, coursework masters, graduate/postgraduate diploma, graduate certificate, graduate bachelor, honours bachelor, pass bachelor, three year undergraduate diploma, associate diploma, and certificate.

Abbreviations

GTS = Good Teaching Scale
CGS = Clear Goals and Standards Scale
AWS = Appropriate Workload Scale
AAS = Appropriate Assessment Scale
GSS = Generic Skills Scale
OSI = Overall Satisfaction Item

Means and standard deviations are calculated to one decimal place.

Additional files with previous years' CEQ data are also available on this site. They are in slightly different format (in terms of layout of data and variables) and users should consult the relevant information files for those years.

For further details and explanations of these data, the reader is directed to the various Course Experience Questionnaire reports published by the GCCA.