Determinants of student feedback: a comparative subject analysis of student statements on teaching quality at grammar and vocational grammar schools

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Sylvia Rahn
• Subject Area: General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
• Term: from 2012 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 227374730

The requested research project is designed as a preliminary study for a separate longitudinal study, to be applied for at the DFG, on the determinants and development of student feedback. The hereby applied preliminary study analyses in a comparative subject study the factors that influence the student feedback at grammar and vocational grammar schools. It will be examined, under the consideration of the subjects German, mathematics and - in the case of the vocational grammar schools - the particular profile forming subject with variance-, regression analysis and by employing confirmatory factor analysis, how far individual learner characteristics, class characteristics and class composition determine the overall assessment of teaching. The aim is to explain if the student statements are comparable across the subjects and the educational programme, as it is assumed in the currently practised feedback process of student feedback, and which subjects and educational programmes in the planned main survey must be taken into consideration or are dispensable for a preferable contrastive comparison.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Participating Persons: Professor Dr. Wolfgang W. Böttcher; Professorin Dr. Sabine Gruehn