Psychometric evaluation of the Learning Experience Questionnaire (LEQ) course evaluation instrument

• A central part in the educational quality work at universities and their departments is the process of course evaluations. The Centre for Educational Development (UPL) at Umea university is working on developing and implementing a course evaluation instrument called the Learning Experience Questionnaire (LEQ). The instrument was originally developed by Dan Borglund and colleagues (Borg et al., 2017) at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Since a couple of years, the Department of Psychology in Umeå has started to use this evaluation instrument. LEQ consists of 23 items measuring the students experience of their learning environment and factors believed to contribute to their learning (Bain, 2004). The 22 items have also tentatively been categorized into the three dimensions meaningfulness (6 items), comprehensibility (10 items) and manageability (6 items) inspired by Aron Antonovsky (1979). In order to further develop LEQ we will present a psychometric analysis of the instrument to look at what factors are present and if it is statistically reasonable to categorize the items into the three dimensions suggested. Preliminary reliability analysis of all items in LEQ suggests a high internal item reliability for the instrument with Cronback'a alpha exceeding .90.  

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Psykologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Psychology (hsv//eng)

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