Course Performance Report
The Course Performance Report (CPR) is an annual report on the performance of UTS award courses.
The CPR aims to improve course quality by enhancing the University's use of course performance data. It will also assist the University in its academic profile planning.
CPR and course accreditation
The CPR classifies courses in each faculty as:
- commendable
- acceptable, or
- of concern to be closely monitored.
Courses in this last group may need to be reviewed in more detail based on poor performance in one or more areas. Results from the annual course review cycle are incorporated into the course reaccreditation process.
UTS Offshore co-ordinates the monitoring of offshore courses and arrangements.
The annual course review cycle is explained at the course development website.
CPR indicators
The CPR is based on an agreed set of performance indicators and minimum standards, linked to the university KPIs. The indicators currently used to assess the performance of each course cover:
- student demand for the course
- student load
- student pass and retention rates
- Student Feedback Survey (SFS) results
- average salary and employment rates for graduates of the course, and
- results from the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) completed by recent graduates.
Data used in compiling the CPR are sourced from the Business Intelligence Portal.
CPR - new to 2006
The CPR debuted in 2006, following a trial in 2005. The reports are delivered to faculties via an electronic scorecard and allow drill down to individual courses.
CPR - developments for 2007
In 2007 some changes were made to the CPR digital scorecard. These included:
- changes in data sources, for example, adding data on direct applications for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, replacing the DEEWR definition of attrition with a more accurate set of data, sourcing exam results direct from CASS so that we can produce the CPR more quickly.
- some metrics will be dropped, that is the CEQ scales AWS, AAS, CGS and WPR are no longer included in the UTS CEQ.
- additional metric of the number of respondents to the GDS, to give additional contextual data.
- mapping of all postgraduate coursework courses into groupings, so that linked courses such as graduate certificate/diploma/masters can be reported as a group.
- now that offshore courses have separate course codes, these can be separated out in the CPR.
CPR - developments for 2008
It was agreed at the June 2008 meeting of CRAG to change the Demand indicator, from 'Ratio of UAC preferences 1-3 to offers made' to 'Percentage UAC preferences 1-3 of all UAC preferences'. This change was proposed by the DVC (TL & E) after analysis of the results which showed that the current metric was affected more by changes in the number of offers than changes in the number of preferences.
CPR - Senior Executive Sponsorship
Senior Executive sponsorship of the CPR reporting and review process rests with the DVC (Teaching, Learning & Equity).