Student feedback on the experience of higher education a significant component of institutional research data

Abstract

Scholars have long recognized the value of student feedback surveys as a tool for informing institutional or even sector-wide improvement. As early as the early 1980s, scholars have noted the value of feedback surveys for finding out what the students really thought about their programs and their wider experience of life in higher education (Marsh, 1982; Ramsden & Entwhistle, 1981; Winter-Hebron, 1984).