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Dear colleagues, Today I received an interesting request, which I would appreciate your thoughts on. One of our departments is considering using (part of) the NSS survey as an end of year survey throughout an undergrad programme. There is an interesting discussion to be had about the desirability of that, and we're having that discussion too. But the question I wanted to share with you, is whether taking such a survey repeatedly (three times over three years) is likely to result in students marking 'sharper' i.e. lower over time or not? Which influencing factors should we take into account? Is anyone aware of any research on this kind of thing? Or has anyone already done this in their own institution? Just as a bit of background, this is a department that takes the NSS and other surveys very seriously, and communicates very well with students. Students will receive a response on how the department is taking this feedback further, with due follow up etc. Where in the worst case we might assume that students may mark more negatively over time out of desperation because nobody seems to act, this is very unlikely to play a role here. Looking forward to your experiences and comments! Many thanks in advance, Gwen van der Velden Director of Learning and Teaching Enhancement Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office Wessex House 5.41 University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY tel 01225 383775