Evaluation of Teaching Activity through the Internet and Non-Attending Students: The Experience of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

The collection of the evaluation questionnaires is costly and time consuming process. The use of internet in data collection, rather than completion on paper, will produce a cheaper and more efficient process. The two modes of administration were described through the results of two years of experimentation in the university of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In the first year, two faculties, representing the scientific and humanistic field, were selected: biosciences and biotechnologies, Economic and Communication Sciences. In the second year, eight faculties out of twelve participated to the experimentation. The adopted strategy allowed gathering information also about non-attending students. The different behaviours of the attending and non-attending student groups will be described in some details.