Wordle – Visualising Student Feedback

How can student evaluation survey responses be used to create engaging and meaningful feedback to the stakeholders? Analysing and displaying trends in large numbers of comments from student evaluation surveys can be problematic. Wordle provides one solution by producing word clouds based on text strings. The ability to quickly, easily and freely produce word clouds from large numbers of student responses enables fast analysis of text and visually interesting and attractive posters to stimulate conversation. Backed up by quantitative data, Wordle provides a powerful, rapid, and visually engaging method of displaying text based data. We have used this to analyse student feedback comments and present them to staff during Performanc