Multilevel analysis of the effects of student and course characteristics on satisfaction in undergraduate liberal arts courses |
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| Authors: | Sun-Geun Baek Hyo-Jeong Shin |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Education, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, Korea |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of student and course characteristics on student satisfaction in courses
by using a two-level hierarchical linear model (HLM). Based on literature reviews, 13 research variables (1 student gender,
2 student academic year, 3 student major, 4 student reason for taking the course, 5 student level of course participation,
6 student expected grade, 7 student achieved grade, 8 faculty gender, 9 faculty age, 10 faculty status, 11 academic field
of the course, 12 class size, and 13 course type) were selected and specified as fixed effects in the analysis model. Data
were 57,216 ratings of 1,481 undergraduate liberal arts courses at Seoul National University in 2006. The result of unconditional
model analysis revealed that student characteristics’ effects on student satisfaction in courses (within-course effects, 88.1%)
were much larger than course characteristics’ effects (between-courses effects, 11.9%). The result of conditional model analysis
specifying student and course level predictors revealed that those 12 research variables, with the exception of student gender,
had statistically significant effects on student satisfaction in courses. The explained variance was 22.0% in student level,
65.8% in course level, and 27.2% of the total variance.
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 8th International Conference on Education Research, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, October 23–25, 2007. |
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| Keywords: | hierarchical linear model (HLM) student satisfaction in courses student characteristics course characteristics teaching competence |
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