CES Dashboard - Academic Unit View
Explanation of terms used in the dashboard
- Response rate: This is calculated based on the number of students taking the survey among the students enrolled in the course. Learn more about response rates here.
- Mean score: Summarizes the overall (or average) response to the question and is computed based on the scores assigned to response options.
- Standard deviation: Describes the degree of variation in responses. A smaller standard deviation indicates consistent responses (i.e., most students selected the same response options), while a larger standard deviation indicates a wider range of responses.
- Mean scores among units at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile: Only available when comparing against the university, these are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles mean scores among the academic units that participated in CES for each semester; they summarize how mean scores are distributed across units by providing the lower, middle, and upper end of the distribution.