Measuring Students’ Perception of Learning: The Systematic Development of an Instrument (Dataset and Instrument)

Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are one form of measurement commonly used in American universities. It is important to determine whether these SETs are helpful in assessing the instructor’s work in and out of the classroom and effective teaching in general.

Towards this end it was intended to measure the students’ perception of teaching and learning as represented by three concepts: Student, Course, and Instructor. Operationalizing and scaling of the concepts was conducted at the committee level using borrowed instruments and, in some cases, creating new survey items to include in a pilot test. Factor analysis techniques were used to analyse the data.