NSSE Institutional Report Resources

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This guide outlines a wide variety of resources that you can use to help you make the most of your NSSE data and results. The guide is available for download. These resources are also featured below.

Accessing Your Results

NSSE provides three ways to access your results online—all via the secure Institution Interface.

  • Download zip files with respondent data and institutional reports from the “Data & Reports” table.
  • From the same table, access your Online Institutional Report, a user-friendly way to access and view your NSSE reports in a web browser.
  • Interact with the Report Builder, a web-based tool for creating reports tailored to student and institutional characteristics of your choosing.

NSSE Overview

A profile of participating institutions and respondents including response rates, tips for checking data quality, and related information.

Survey Instruments

View the core NSSE items (US and Canadian) and Topical Modules in two forms, as a downloadable Word document and in the online format as it appears to students. Also available is informed consent language.

Engagement Indicators

Information about the ten NSSE Engagement Indicators organized within four themes, including component items, details about their creation and scoring, and interpreting results.

High-Impact Practices

Information about the six High-Impact Practices collected by NSSE, including item wording, scoring, and interpreting results.

Data Codebooks

Codebooks detail all questions, scales, derived variables, variable names, response options, and coding information represented in your survey data (including institution-provided & survey administration variables).

Student Comment Prompts

Information about NSSE's open-ended prompts, your students' comments and datafile, and tips and examples for using students' opinions in assessment.

How Institutions Use NSSE Data

Read how many campuses use their NSSE results to improve the undergraduate experience. This page broadly introduces a range of data use resources beginning with the introductory guide, Using NSSE Data, which broadly describes approaches to using NSSE results and reports.

Lessons from the Field

Lessons from the Field is a repository of in-depth institutional examples of NSSE data use.

NSSE Data Use in Brief

The short series, NSSE Data Use in Brief, presents institutional examples organized by specific themes: Topical Modules to advance institutional goals, High-Impact Practices, specific student populations, and enhancing educational practice.

Analysis Resources

Syntax and tips for working with NSSE data.

NSSE Data Users Guide

Suggestions and worksheets for sharing NSSE results with others.

Accreditation Toolkits

Learn how to use NSSE results in your institution’s regional and professional accreditation efforts.

Guidelines for Displaying NSSE Results

Posting standard NSSE-generated reports, such as the Snapshot can be helpful. View how institutions can go a step further by displaying results in interactive, accessible formats for internal &external audiences.

Sharing and Disseminating NSSE Results

Examples and user-generated tips for sharing NSSE data with different audiences.

Tips for More Inclusive Data Sharing and Analysis

Designed to help campuses work with data from small student populations, this guide offers tips and resources for analyzing and comparing the experiences reported by these students.

Project DEEP Practice Briefs

A series based on in-depth examination of 20 Project DEEP schools with higher-than-predicted graduation rates and demonstrated approaches to student success.

Publications and Presentations

Find NSSE-related publications, recent presentations, and scholarly papers.

Webinars

Free interactive and on-demand webinars. More than 40 available for viewing on the NSSE channel.

Conceptual Framework

Introduces the concept of student engagement and the origins and developments in NSSE’s 20 year history.

Psychometric Portfolio

A collection of evidences developed by NSSE to support the uses and interpretations of results.

Response Rates: FAQ

Answers to commonly asked questions about response rates and interpreting survey results.

Annual Results: Engagement Insights

Engagement Insights: Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education is a yearly publication of new findings and approaches to the data, including Faculty Insights, new examples of institutional data use.

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