Feedback for a better teaching - A general questionnaire to collect student ratings of teaching in Norwegian

Abstract

The aim of the present work was to develop a Norwegian questionnaire for collecting student rating of teaching (SRT) at university level. For this purpose, an established international questionnaire (Trier Inventar zur Lehrevaluation, TRIL) was translated into Norwegian and evaluated using peer-evaluation of the questionnaire. The peer evaluators found that the questionnaire assess the important characteristics of teaching quality, is applicable in all academic fields, and provides feedback that can be utilized to improve teaching behaviour. Thus, the here developed Norwegian version of the TRIL appears to be a suitable instrument to obtain SRTs. However, factor-structure and psychometrical properties of the presented translation remain to be evaluated in future studies.