Data for student feedback on Harvard courses. After each semester, the office of the Registrar at Harvard sends all students the so-called Q Guide, where students submit both quantitative and qualitative data about their courses. The primary observations of our data set are the overall rating of the course, as well as the workload.
qscoresA tibble with 748 observations and 9 variables:
character variable with name of course
character variable with course department
character variable with course number
character variable with values "2018-Fall" and "2019-Spring"
integer variable with course enrollment
numeric variable representing hours per week of workload, outside of class time
numeric variable representing average of students' rating of course (1 to 5 scale), with higher numbers indicating a higher rating
character variable with name of instructor
integer 0/1 variable for sex of instructor
The data for this tibble was generously provided by Aurash Vatan '23.
The data source — skimmed from the Q Guide web app — does not support data for courses that are primarily taught in individual sections. As such, large courses like freshman Expository Writing (taught in 15-person sections) do not have data available. The data set has also been filtered to only include courses with more than 15 registered students.