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Measuring satisfaction without inventing a leaderboard

2025-03-07 · Elena Park

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We rotate question banks so learners are not answering identical Likert rows every week. Open text fields are required, not optional ornaments, because nuance matters more than a decimal bump.

We publish blended satisfaction summaries—sometimes stars, sometimes percentages from surveys—because different cohorts prefer different scales. We avoid crowning ourselves with superlatives; we describe what changed in the syllabus based on last quarter's notes.

We also disclose when a module underperformed. Readers deserve to know we shortened the gRPC primer after timing feedback.

Finally, we remind readers that testimonials on our site focus on experience, not income claims, by design and policy.