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Registration for the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE) is open as of March 1, 2023!
BCSSE targets recent high school graduates, transfer students, and older students with little or no prior experience in higher education. Institutions use BCSSE for academic advising, first-year experience programs, retention initiatives, faculty development, and other activities focused on student success.
NSSE is pleased to release the first of three data-informed stories in Engagement Insights—Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education, an annual series detailing important and timely NSSE findings.
This first release, Rebounding Engagement: Has Higher Education Returned to "Normal"?, presents patterns of student engagement and time allocations, focusing on trends from 2019 to 2022 to explore shifts during the pandemic.
Wednesday, March 8 - Friday, March 10
NSSE @ Indiana AIR Conference
Monday, March 23
BCSSE Introduction Webinar
Saturday, March 25 - Tuesday, March 28
NSSE @ The Higher Learning Commision Annual Conference
Each of NSSE's surveys contains its own registration window and price. Discover how and when to register for each survey, as well as the price point for each survey, by visiting the corresponding link below.
NSSE provides a plethora of useful data that must be packaged and interpreted in order to best assist institutions with their campus imporvement efforts. Use the links below for aid throughout the process.
Wondering exactly what is featured on each NSSE survey? View the individual items on each of our surveys, as they are presented to students and faculty, by visiting the corresponding link below.
Institutions can customize our surveys to their specific needs, including Topical Modules, Consortia, and Open-Ended Student Comments, as well as administration methods and reporting data.
After customizing NSSE and/or our other surveys to individual needs, institutions must promote the surveys on their campuses to ensure quality response rates and accurate data. NSSE offers helpful tips for these efforts.
NSSE delivers survey results in the form of several reports, including a Snpapshot Report, a High-Impact Practices Report, a Multi-Year Report, a Comaprison Report, a Major Field Report, and more.
13% of first-year students participated in a learning community
60% of first-year students in STEM majors report they frequently asked peers for help to understand materials
Need a resource to prepare students and parents for what to inquire about on college visits?
Consider this FREE NSSE resource.
About 1,700 four-year colleges and universities have participated in our surveys of students and faculty. Is your institution one of them?
Search institutions who have participated in NSSE, FSSE, and/or BCSSE based on name, survey, participating year, location, Carnegie Type and more.
Find your institution's history with NSSE, or see which other institutions have used or are using NSSE.
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: Volume 4
NSSE Sightings keeps you up-to-date on our initiatives. Good engagement research should not be hard to find!
The reports are easy to understand and eye-pleasing, the comparison groups are helpful, the web-based Report Builder is extremely useful, and the ability to provide access to others via the web is valuable.
Judith Ouimet, Senior Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Indiana University Bloomington
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
