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NSSE Foundations: An Introduction to the National Survey of Student Engagement
Regional Users’ Workshop
October 6-7, 2005
Agenda
NSSE: What is it?
History of NSSE
NSSE Today
Timeline and Administration
Deliverables
Questions
What is NSSE?
An annual snapshot of student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development.
The results will provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college.
National Survey of Student Engagement items represent empirically confirmed ‘good practices’; they reflect behaviors associated with desired outcomes of college.
The time and energy students devote to educationally purposeful activities is the single best predictor of their learning and personal development.
History of NSSE
1998 Pew Charitable Trust
Better ways to look at schools than US News? Non-Student Measures of Success (i.e.
endowment, admit rates, external opinions)
Can we look at undergraduate quality? Asking students about their experiences
Survey is conceptually based on the CSEQ, developed by Robert Pace (and still a survey in the NSSE family)
History of NSSE
Goals of the designers of the Survey Instrument Consist principally of items that are known to be related to
important college outcomes.
Be administered to students at both public and private four-year colleges and universities.
Be administered to freshman- and senior-level students who
have attended the institution for at least two terms. Be administered to adequate samples at participating
institutions.
Be flexible.
Be administered by a credible third-party survey organization.
History of NSSE
1999: 2 Pilots (Fall and Spring) were conducted and meetings were held with education leaders, administrators, and faculty
Early concerns by stakeholders a concern that the NSSE might create pressure to
homogenize curricular practices, the need to clarify the NSSE’s purpose and to develop
safeguards against the misuse of survey results, the recognition that institutions might try to
manipulate the results—especially if the survey is used in rankings or other "high-stakes" settings, and
a concern that The College Student Report is really a "reputation/selectivity" measure in another guise.
NSSE Today
The “NSSElings”
The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (2003)
The Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (2004)
Additional Surveys
The Law Student Survey of Student Engagement
The College Student Experiences Questionnaire
The College Student Expectations Questionnaire
The High School Survey of Student Engagement*
The Community College Survey of Student Engagement*
*Not administered by the Center for Postsecondary Research
NSSE Today
Additional Research Projects Building Engagement and Attainment in Minority
Students (BEAMS) Documenting Effective Educational Practices (DEEP) Connecting the Dots, American Democracy Project,
Flashlight Group, State Higher Ed Systems Chiropractic School Survey
Additional Resources Accreditation Toolkits Regional Workshops Pocket Guides
NSSE Today
NSSE Around the World
Canadian, French Canadian, Spanish Versions
Administered in Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Italy
In negotiations with more countries
Administered to over 950 different institutions in all 50 states
Institutional Demographics of participants mirror those of the Nation
Core Surveys: NSSE
Research based on effective educational practices
Designed and tested for high validity and reliability
Relatively stable over time
High credibility of self-reported data
Over 200,000 students at 500 institutions annually
Core Surveys: FSSE
Designed to parallel NSSE undergraduate survey
Faculty perceptions of student engagement
Importance faculty place on various areas of learning and development
Nature and frequency of faculty-student interactions
How faculty members organize class time
Catalyst for productive discussions related to teaching and learning
To date more than 34,000 faculty members at 276 four-year institutions
Core Surveys: BCSSE
In 2nd Pilot Stage (70 Institutions)
Provides information for institutions about incoming students
HS engagement
College expectations
What they value from their new institutions
Links to NSSE items
Will have it’s first full administration in 2006
Timelines
May-July
NSSE/FSSE Registration
BCSSE Administration
August
NSSE Institutional Report Sent
BCSSE Combined Report Sent
September
NSSE/FSSE Registration Closes
BCSSE Reports Sent Population Institutional Student Advising
October
NSSE/FSSE Population files /
Materials due Annual Reports Sent
BCCSE Linked Population files due
November-December
NSSE/FSSE Consortia, Oversample Decisions Due
January-April
NSSE/FSSE Administration
BCSSE Registration
NSSE Administration
Administration Mode
Paper: We need accurate addresses, letterhead, signatures
Web+: 4x the paper sample, we need emails and addresses
Web: 5x the paper sample, we need emails
NSSE Administration
Sample Size
Numbers are based on mode and school size
Oversampling can increase sample size or ensure adequate representation of populations of interest
NSSE Administration
Special Groups Consortia
Schools like you Additional Questions
Selected Peers Schools like you
Special Populations Identified in Pop file
Special Analysis Post Hoc Analysis
Experimental Items Web schools only
2005 Consortia American Democracy Project Associated New American Colleges AAUDE California State University Canadian Catholic Colleges & Universities Council for Christian Colleges &
Universities Council of Independent colleges Jesuit Universities Kentucky Council on Postsecondary
Education Private Liberal Arts Universities Urban Universities Women's Colleges State Systems
North Dakota University System Texas A&M System University of Hawaii System University System of Georgia University of Texas System
NSSE Administration
How often? Every Year: Gives you a snapshot of each class
Every Three Years: Gives you a picture of a cohort at the beginning and the end of their college experiences
Every Five Years: Works well with most accreditation cycles (Accreditation and Interim Reports)
Other factors Establishing a baseline Costs (Using all core surveys) Additional Surveys/Sources of Data Time to take absorb results, make changes
NSSE Administration
Things that we need from you
Population File All First-Year and Senior Students Accurate Addresses and/or emails
Letterhead and Signature File (Paper Schools only)
Primary Contact: To answer day to day questions
Administration Plan (incentives, advertising) and broad buy-in
NSSE Deliverables Institutional Report (August)
Institutional data
Respondent characteristics (Demographic Information)
Item averages and response percentages (Means and Frequencies)
First-year students and seniors
Comparisons by consortium, Carnegie, and national
Additional Data (If Applicable)
Experimental items FSSE Report BCSSE Combined Report
NSSE Institute Information Using NSSE Data Accreditation toolkit
NSSE Deliverables
Benchmark Report (October)
1) Level of Academic Challenge
2) Active and Collaborative Learning
3) Student-Faculty Interaction
4) Enriching Educational Experiences
5) Supportive Campus Environment
NSSE Deliverables
You become part of the NSSE Family with your participation
Consulting
Help with making sense of Data
Presentation Assistance
Technical Questions
Updates, Briefs, New information
Special Conference Workshops (Meeting other users)
Feedback for NSSE
NSSE: Only one step
Step #1: Survey Data
• Survey Students• Review Results• Develop Preliminary
List of Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement
Step #2: Feedback
• Share results with Faculty, Administrators & Students
• Identify Themes & Priorities
• Design Action Plan
Step #2: Feedback
• Share results with Faculty, Administrators & Students
• Identify Themes & Priorities
• Design Action PlanStep #3: Action Plan
• Finalize Plan• Share Plan with
Appropriate Groups• Link to Strategic
Plan• Implement Action
Step #4: Follow-up
• Use Results as Benchmarks to Monitor Progress
• Faculty & Student Focus Groups
Step #4: Follow-up
• Use Results as Benchmarks to Monitor Progress
• Faculty & Student Focus Groups