Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ)
The Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) is part of the Australian Graduate Survey (AGS), an annual survey of university graduates developed by Graduate Careers Australia (GCA). The aim of the CEQ is to determine what graduates thought of the coursework program that they had recently completed, including their attitudes towards the skills they acquired, and the quality of teaching provided, during their program.
The scope of the CEQ is all graduates who completed an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework program at an Australian university during the previous year (e.g. the scope of the 2007 survey is graduates who completed their program in 2006). Graduates who completed a postgraduate research program receive the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ) instead of the CEQ.
The CEQ consists of a series of statements, and graduates are asked whether they agree with each statement. The possible responses are strongly disagree, disagree, uncertain, agree, or strongly agree. The statements are divided into several scales, which are groups of statements that have a similar theme (e.g. good teaching, student support). There are three core scales that are asked by all universities, namely the Generic Skills Scale, the Good Teaching Scale, and the Overall Satisfaction Item. The remaining scales are optional, and are only asked by some universities. The full list of CEQ scales and statements can be found here.
Three indicators from the CEQ are used in the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. These indicators are the percentage of graduates who either agreed or strongly agreed with the statements in each of the three core scales (i.e. Generic Skills, Good Teaching, Overall Satisfaction), out of all graduates who responded to the statements in each scale.
Current data from the CEQ are available in the Data Warehouse. The University of Adelaide’s results (including program level data) are available for the 2004 survey onwards, and national benchmarking results (for all universities) are available for the 2002 survey onwards. Commonly used CEQ data from the Data Warehouse, such as the percent agreement indicators for the three core scales, are also available in the Regular Data Warehouse Performance Reports on the Strategy and Planning website.
