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WHAT IS THE CES?<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>
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The University has a standardised and systematised approach to the collection and reporting of course level student feedback.<\/p>\n

The Course Experience Survey (CES) is an online survey administered to all RMIT students in Melbourne for every class every semester. \u00a0The purpose of the CES is to collect student feedback to help RMIT make improvements in learning and teaching. The CES questions are slightly different for Higher Education (HE) and Vocational Education (VE). Both versions ask the students to indicate their agreement with seven statements, against a 5 point scale (\u2018Strong Disagree [1]\u2019 to \u2018Strongly Agree [5]\u2019).<\/p>\n

The responses to the first statement \u2018Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of this course\u2019 is used to calculate the Overall Satisfaction Index (OSI).<\/p>\n

The other six statements are used to calculate the Good Teaching Scale (GTS). The statements for HE and VE are different, they are taken from externally administered National Graduate Surveys: the Course (Program in RMIT language) Experience Questionnaire for HE; and the Student Outcomes Survey for VE (I don\u2019t think this is true, I couldn\u2019t verify it anywhere). The student\u2019s responses to the GTS statements for a specific teacher, students can elect to respond to the GTS statements for multiple teachers for a single class.<\/p>\n

Both versions have provision for up to eight additional statements, that can be selected from a question bank by course coordinators. This allows course coordinators to gather additional information of specific interest to the class.<\/p>\n

Two qualitative questions are asked allowing for written comments by respondents:<\/p>\n

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  • \u201cWhat are the best aspects of this course?\u201d<\/li>\n
  • \u201cWhat aspects of this course are in most need of improvement?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Finally, students are asked to indicate how many hours they spent studying for the course outside class in the past week.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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