The Finnish Bachelor’s Graduate Survey (Kandipalaute)
About the questionnaire
The Finnish Bachelor’s Graduate Survey is a national student feedback survey that examines students’ satisfaction with their university and studying experience. The survey is founded on HowULearn-questionnaire that was developed by the University of Helsinki based on prior research on academic teaching and learning. The findings are used by institutions to improve education and learning and nationally to inform performance-based monitoring and guidance. All graduating Bachelor degree students or students with corresponding studies from universities are requested to fill out the questionnaire.
Collected personal data is used to fetch information related to person’s study right from VIRTA - higher education achievement register as background information to create a respondent ID and enable the use of electronic graduate feedback questionnaire. The collected personal data is not transferred to the questionnaire and all answers are handled confidentially and anonymized.
The Finnish universities are responsible for the graduate feedback survey and its development.
More information in Privacy notice, Ethical principles and Accessibility statement.
The results
The staff of the universities can review the real time survey results by using the Arvo - education management information service with appropriate user rights.
The national part (numeric data) of the research data is disclosed in pseudonymised form to the Finnish Social Science Data Archive for permanent archival and research purposes with the permission of the controllers. The data becomes anonymous in the data archive when the retention period of the data ends in the controllers’ own systems and data is disposed. (More information: www.fsd.tuni.fi). The statistics are freely available at the Vipunen statistics services of the educational administration.