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ISAT 2018: Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 39th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2018 pp 245–257Cite as

Survey Analyser: Effective Processing of Academic Questionnaire Data

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Abstract

Many universities conduct survey research in order to evaluate and improve quality of their education processes. Surprisingly, replacing traditional paper-based questionnaires with electronic ones usually decreases response rates and thus negatively affects overall reliability of results. In the paper, this issue is addressed and an effective approach to academic surveying is described, including a recommended strategy, matrix-based questionnaire representation, methods and technical framework for data handling. A crucial part of this method is the Survey Analyser – an innovative application, which automates the processing of questionnaire results using information extraction and transformation. The proposed surveying method and the corresponding software were successfully implemented into production environments at two universities, showing good performance based on real-life results.

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Notes

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    Response rate is the number of responders, who actually answered a survey, divided by the overall number of authorized participants.

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    Including the reports described in Sect. 2.3.

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The author wishes to thank the Karkonosze College in Jelenia Góra for sharing the results of survey research, which were presented in this paper.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, The President Stanislaw Wojciechowski State University of Applied Sciences in Kalisz, ul. Nowy Swiat 4, 62-800, Kalisz, Poland

    Damian Dudek

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Leszek Borzemski

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jerzy Świątek

  3. University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Nysa, Poland

    Zofia Wilimowska

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Dudek, D. (2019). Survey Analyser: Effective Processing of Academic Questionnaire Data. In: Borzemski, L., Świątek, J., Wilimowska, Z. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 39th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2018. ISAT 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 852. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99981-4_23

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