CALCULATING ECTS CREDITS: CASE OF YASAR UNIVERSITY

ECTS credit of a course signifies the workload of an average student in terms of hoursin order to complete the course successfully. Initially, the credits are determined by the instructor with respect to his/her experience and then monitored through regularly conducted questionnaires answered by students. However, application of these questionnaires embraces a plethora of issues. Should the questionnaires be conducted to the population of students or to a sample of that population? Does the disagreement between the respondents of the questionnaires and the group that are affected from its results compromise the reliability of the data? Who is the "average student"? How should the data be filtered and analyzed? In this article, these issues are discussed by proposing eight statistical models the performances of which are compared.