Papers and Evaluation

A list of papers and evaluation results about the course barometer concept. The papers are available as PDF files.

The UTU Papers

The UTU papers

The Webfuse course barometer concept is based on an idea developed at the University of Trollhattan Uddevalla (UTU). Staff at that University have written two papers about their experience.

Lars Svensson, Robert Andersson, Magnus Gadd, Anders Johnsson, Course-Barometer: Compensating for the loss of informal feedback in Distance Education, Proceedings of EdMedia'99, Ron Oliver, Betty Collis (editors), Seattle, Washington.

Lars Svensson, Carsten Sorensen, Designing Community Atmosphere Barometers, to appear in Proceedings of ECIS'2002, Gdansk, Poland.

The Webfuse Papers

Webfuse staff have produced papers about the experience of using course barometers and plans for improving it.

David Jones, Student feedback, anonymity, observable change and course barometers, to appear in the Proceedings of EdMedia'2002, Boulder, Colorado.

David Jones, Course Barometers: Lessons Gained from the widespread use of anonymous online formative evaluation, Proceedings of OLT'2003, Brisbane

Initial Evaluation

In December 2001 an online survey was used to gather feedback from students about their views on the course barometers. Initial results are available

2nd Evaluation

In June 2002 an email was sent to all undergraduate students enrolled in an Webfuse course during Autumn term asking them to complete the same survey as used in the initial evaluation.

To date 291 students have completed the survey. The results are available