Student Evaluation of Teaching: The analysis of measurement invariance across online and paper-based administration procedures of the Romanian version of Marsh’s Student Evaluations of Educational Quality scale

Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) instruments can be administered online or with paper and pencil. These procedures involve different interactions between respondents and instruments which could cause errors when administrators and researchers want to compare or relate online results with paper-based results. This study aimed to analyze if the Romanian version of the Student Evaluations of Educational Quality instrument presents similar psychometric characteristics regardless if it is completed online or by paper and pencil. Data was collected from two groups of students (N = 809). One group completed the SEEQ on paper-pencil support (312 responders, 38.6%). The other group completed the scale for the same teachers and courses, but online and one year later. Psychometrical checks and measurement invariance analysis suggested that the Romanian version of SEEQ has passed the internal validity and reliability test and presented configural, metric, and scalar invariance across the results obtained from both administration procedures. •Nowadays, SET instruments are administered online or by paper-pencil procedures.•The procedures involve different interactions between respondents and instruments.•Checking the measure invariance is necessary when using both SET procedures.•The SEEQ has good invariance indices across data collected with both procedures.•The SEEQ has a good fit for the Romanian population.