NSSENSSENSSE
To meet the needs of participating institutions, NSSE delivers data files of survey responses in a timely manner – even before the administration closes – and also provides more fully processed data later in the summer. All data files include the institution-provided student identifier for additional analysis and merging with other school records. Codebooks and other resources are also available.
Even before the close of the survey administration, NSSE offers early access to a raw form of your NSSE survey data in the spring. The raw data will help you get a jump on assessment, planning, and internal reporting during the spring and summer months. For details on which variables are included, how often the raw data are updated, etc., visit the link below.
NSSE's data codebooks include complete item wordings, response labels, and coding for the core survey, modules, and consortium questions. Codebooks correspond to fully processed data files and contain information on variables that are not included in the raw data files.
NSSE posts fully processed data in SPSS and Excel formats to the Institution Interface in the summer. We typically upload a preliminary version in mid to late July (subject to final checking) and a final version with the Institutional Report in August. We will announce when they are ready for download.
These data files include all core survey items, population file information (studentid, irclass, irenrollment, “group” variables, etc.), Topical Modules, consortium items, custom item sets, all open-text comments and write-in responses, weights, and other helpful fields (such as surveyid and logdate). Also included are recoded and derived variables such as Engagement Indicator (EI) scores and those for the writing, time-on-task, and demographic items. Data from NSSE experimental sets are not included, but may be available upon request.
While data are delivered in both SPSS and Excel formats, other formats may be delivered upon request after reports have been delivered. Samples are available at the links below.
In both SPSS & Excel formats (links to zip folder downloads):