In terms of percentages of the total number of respondents in a group who answered a question correctly, students had a higher rate than both faculty and administrators, with 71% answering correctly, as opposed to 20% and 47%, respectively. The large majority of students answered correctly. Around 11% of students appeared to be thinking of this data in a confidential manner, either saying that only the student had access to a course roster (<1%), or denying their access to course rosters (11%).
The majority of faculty (52%) answered that though faculty and TAs have access to the roster, students do not, indicating that a majority of faculty were thinking about this data as more confidential than it actually is. Only just over 20% answered correctly. “Don’t know” answer choices were 18% for faculty, as compared to 11% of students and 8% of administrators.
A majority of administrators (47%) answered this question correctly, though over 33% indicated that they too thought about this data in more of a confidential manner than it actually is.
It should also be considered that those who chose the answer “only the student, the professor, and the teaching assistants (TAs) in the course” were actually thinking about the question correctly. Though not the best answer choice, it is not technically incorrect. Those who chose it might have read “the student” as including other students in the class as well. Perhaps they did not continue reading the response choices to see that the choice underneath that which they chose was actually a better, more thorough answer. This is highly speculative, but does lead towards the possibility that higher percentages across all three groups were actually thinking about this question in the correct way.
CU LMS Privacy Survey Data Visualizations 