BUSINESS INFORMATICS PRACTICALS:

SURVEY RESULTS 2001

 

Here are the results of the survey conducted at the end of academic year 2000/2001.

458 students (out of approximately 720 that attended those practicals) took part in the survey. The results of this survey in Slovenian can be found here.

Here only summarized results are published. Anyone interested in obtaining complete results of all filled questionnaires can contact me.

 

2. Average mark for the practicals as a whole(scale 1 to 5; 5: highest): 4,32

 

3. Average mark for teaching assistant explaining the topics: 4,49

 

4. Average mark for teaching assistant that helped in case of problems: 4,37

 

5. Difficulty level of those practicals was:

much too low

12

3%

slightly too low

59

13%

exactly right

326

73%

slightly too high

48

11%

much too high

1

0%

6. Knowledge gained in these practicals is:

useless

8

2%

little useful

20

5%

useful

276

63%

extremely useful

135

31%

 

7. I have a personal computer at home: YES (97,3%), NO (2,7%)

 

8. I use the following software programs or services at least once every month (multiple answers possible):

 

MS Word

411

90%

MS Excel

395

86%

e-mail (any e-mail client)

305

67%

world wide web (any web browser)

295

64%

MS Frontpage

22

5%

MS Access

13

3%

 

9. I would like the following changes in the practicals (multiple answers possible):

 

more independent work

83

18%

more help in the case of the problems

79

17%

not compulsory practicals

77

17%

smaller groups

80

17%

 

10. I would like to learn more about the following things (multiple answers possible)

HTML

248

54%

Internet

203

45%

Corel Draw

106

23%

Powerpoint

102

22%

Outlook

67

15%

Excel

46

10%

Visual Basic for Applications

36

8%

MS Word

24

5%

 

11. I would like to learn less about the following things (multiple answers possible)

use of Excel for statistics

100

22%

Visual Basic for Application

91

20%

use of Excel for financial calculation

81

18%

Word

73

16%

Excel- charts

26

6%

 

12. I would like to take part in a special group on a higher level: YES (268 – 63%), NO (157 – 37%)

 

13. The average grade for the homepage of this course (scale 1 to 5): 4,54

 

14. The information published on the homepage was:

 

very useful

234

56%

useful

172

41%

sligthly useful

5

1%

unuseful

4

1%

I have not visited that page

4

1%