Graduate Careers Council of Australia
Course Experience Questionnaire Data 2001

General Notes

• The following files were generated from the 2001 GCCA CEQ survey.

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

• These figures were posted in May 2002 following data adjustments made in April.

• 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

SD = Strongly disagree (response 1)
D = Disagree (response 2)
U = Undecided (response 3)
A = Agree (response 4)
SA = Strongly agree (response 5)

Means and standard deviations are calculated to one decimal place. The data in these files include figures from both major fields of study.

For further details and explanations of these data, the reader is directed to the various Course Experience Questionnaire reports published by the GCCA, and to the survey managers' resource centre on the Gradlink web site (click on the GCCA logo and follow the links).

The AV-CC/GCCA Code of Practice concerning the use of CEQ figures is also available for download here.

For further information about the data available on this site, users should contact (in the first instance) GCCA Research Manager, Bruce Guthrie on 'phone (02) 6367 5347, fax (02) 6367 5336, or email on BruceGuthrie@Dainville.com.au

Description of files available on this site.

1. ceq01.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and DETYA field of study. Institutional and national means, standard deviations and response numbers are shown for each scale.

2. option01.csv shows CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and institution-generated faculty/degree/course code variable (where an institution included it). The mean and standard deviation are shown for each scale, and response numbers are also shown. There are no relevant national figures as the option codes are unique to each institution.

3. area01.csv shows  CEQ figures by institution, level of qualification and 40 aggregated fields of study. Institutional and national means, standard deviations and response numbers are shown for each scale.

4. pcmaj01<scale>.csv: There are 6 scale files showing the percentage disagree-agree on the 5 point Likert scale by DETYA field of study. Column headings used are SD% (% strongly disagree), D% (% disagree), U% (% undecided), A% (% agree), and SA% (% strongly agree).

• Pcmaj01AAS

• Pcmaj01AWS

• Pcmaj01CGS

• Pcmaj01GSS

• Pcmaj01GTS

• Pcmaj01OSI

5. pcopt01<scale>.csv: There are 6 scale files showing the percentage disagree-agree on the 5 point Likert scale by the institution-generated faculty/degree/course code variable. Column headings used are SD% (% strongly disagree), D% (% disagree), U% (% undecided), A% (% agree), and SA% (% strongly agree).

• PcOPT01aas

• PcOPT01aws

• PcOPT01cgs

• PcOPT01gss

• PcOPT01gts

• PcOPT01osi

6. pcarea01<scale>.csv: There are 6 scale files showing the percentage disagree-agree on the 5 point Likert scale by 40 aggregated fields of study. Column headings used are SD% (% strongly disagree), D% (% disagree), U% (% undecided), A% (% agree), and SA% (% strongly agree).

• PcAREA01aas

• PcAREA01aws

• PcAREA01cgs

• PcAREA01gss

• PcAREA01gts

• PcAREA01osi

7. CEQapp01.csv shows CEQ figures for pass and honours degree graduates by institution and DETYA field of study. The institutional and national means are shown for each scale, and the N size is also shown. These are the figures which used to appear in the institutional appendices of the annual CEQ report.

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.