Faculty of Business results in 2011 student engagement surveys

Student engagement has been linked with high-quality learning outcomes and is increasingly being seen as a fundamental aspect of higher education. Each year, the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) conducts a number of surveys related to student engagement.

ACER surveys thousands of students at higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) and Postgraduate Survey of Student Engagement (POSSE).

The survey instruments collect information on around 100 specific learning activities and conditions along with information on individual demographics and educational contexts.

In the 2011 survey results, released in 2012, Bond University’s Faculty of Business has benchmarked itself against the group of Innovative Research Universities as well as the national average and has performed exceedingly well across a range of categories.

The table below provides a summary of some of the key results.

Combined Undergraduate and Postgraduate results
	Faculty of Business	Innovative Research Universities	National
Academic Challenge	59	49	48
Active Learning	55	43	41
Student & Staff Interactions	40	27	25
Enriched Educational Experience	33	25	25
Supportive Learning Environment	70	54	54
Work Integrated Learning	53	48	47
Higher Order Thinking	76	66	66
General Learning Outcomes	74	65	63
General Development Outcomes	59	49	47
Career Readiness	54	46	45
Average Overall Grade	72	74	71
Departure Intention (Note: the lower the number the better in this category)	20	23	22
Overall Satisfaction	79	64	65

Note:

These questions comprise a selection only of the individual questions asked. They are not the full complement of questions that inform the scales.
The Innovative Research Universities group was chosen as a benchmark. This group comprises of the following universities: Charles Darwin, Flinders, Griffith, James Cook, La Trobe, Murdoch and Newcastle.

postgraduate student (right hand)