NSSENSSENSSE
The short online survey—NSSE Pulse—includes selected questions from NSSE critical to persistence, such as quality of interactions and sense of belonging. Pulse closed Nov 23. Click on more details to view select results and a list of participating institutions.
More details about NSSE Pulse are available here
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is a trusted and widely used instrument for assessing the quality of undergraduate education—providing institutions diagnostic, actionable information that fosters and catalyzes evidence-based improvement efforts.
Register for NSSE & FSSE 2022 now!
Visit the NSSE survey posted online to review updates, including the sense of belonging items and new measures of effective teaching.
NSSE 2021 finished strong and we're looking forward to sharing results with hundreds of colleges and universities later this summer!!
In March 2021, NSSE released the fifth data-informed story in Engagement Insights—Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education, an annual series detailing important and timely NSSE findings. We review what NSSE has accomplished and learned over two decades, including the project’s success as a diagnostic tool for actionable results and evidence of improvement. We also identify several future directions, keeping in mind higher education trends and what will be important to assessment and improvement in undergraduate education over the coming years.
Read more about NSSE’s future and view the webinar recorded on April 14, to learn more about NSSE’s growing agenda!
74% of first-generation students worked 8 or more hours per week
Insights from NSSE results along with findings from student focus groups guided the restructuring of St. Olaf's academic advising office and the hiring process for a director for that office.
St. Olaf College
Read about how 23 institutions used their NSSE results in Lessons from the Field–Volume 4: Digging Deeper to Focus and Extend Data Use.
Lessons from the Field
NSSE Sightings keeps you up-to-date on our initiatives. Good engagement research should not be hard to find!
Evidence-Based Improvement in Higher Education
Center for Postsecondary Research
Indiana University
School of Education
201 N. Rose Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405-1006
Phone: 812.856.5824
Email: nsse@indiana.edu
