Evaluating the Accuracy of Actual Workload Questionnaire with Ordinal Response Category: Bootstrap Sampling for Reliability

Authors : Selcen Yüksel, Pervin Demir, Şemsettin Tabur, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Kalite Koordinatörlüğü

Pages : 1-6

Doi:10.53478/yuksekogretim.1539693

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Publication Date : 2025-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The Bologna Declaration (19 June 1999) motivated the implementation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which led to the transformation of the curricula of the university degrees. In Türkiye, quality assurance in higher education was focused mainly after the participation of Türkiye in the Bologna Process in 2001. However, efforts and activities related to Bologna reforms gained momentum particularly after 2005. Within the EHEA framework, the student workload is set through the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), which is a numerical descriptive value of the total in-class and independent unstructured work required to pass a particular course. The actual workload of the student, which is the primary input in the calculation of ECTS, is generally calculated by taking into account the lecturer’s expectations from the student during extracurricular times. In some universities, lecturers are obliged to conduct the actual workload questionnaire related to the course they are taking and share the results with their departments. Although there is such a sanction for some lecturers, the actual workload of students is estimated in most universities without asking students directly. In this study, it is aimed to design a structured questionnaire to calculate the actual workload of students and to statistically prove the reliability of the result obtained from this questionnaire. For this purpose, actual workload survey results with ordinal response categories for 3 courses were obtained and the open-ended version of the same questionnaire was asked to the same students again face to face and the results were compared. In addition, to evaluate the accuracy of this comparison and the generalizability of the results to the population was questioned using the bootstrap sampling method, taking into account the empirical distributions of responses got from questionnaires.
Keywords : AKTS, Gerçek İş Yükü Anketi, Bootstrap Örnekleme, Güvenirlik

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