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Time Use During College: Is it study or party time?
"What students do during college counts more in terms of desired outcomes than who they are or where they go to college" – Kuh et al., 2005, p. 8 Time use is a critical component of student learning and development (Pace, 1980). Consequently, it is imperative to understand how students utilize their time and how these […]
Optimizing Surveys for Smartphones? Yes, It’s Important!
Shimon Sarraf, Jennifer Brooks, and Jim Cole - If you're in the business of collecting survey data from college students (or anyone else for that matter), you've probably heard a lot of people talk about optimizing surveys for smartphones. This conversation isn't a surprise, since over 90% of today's college students are estimated to be walking around with smartphones. At NSSE, we've noticed exponential growth […]
Shimon Sarraf - In our recent Annual Results 2016 publication, we highlighted new research indicating that college students benefit from a growth mindset - a belief that intelligence and other personality characteristics can change with effort and experience. This finding is not new. Researchers, especially Carol Dweck from Stanford University, have been ringing this bell for quite some time. So why should you pay attention […]
Student Perceptions of Safety and Belonging
Allison BrckaLorenz and Sarah Hurtado - Feelings of safety and belonging in a college community are important to students' well-being and ability to learn. More than 13,000 first-year and senior students from 34 bachelor's degree-granting institutions answered questions about their feelings of safety and belonging at their institution. Although the majority felt physically safe and comfortable being themselves at their institution, perceptions varied among demographic […]
What Arts and Business Majors Have in Common
Angie Miller, Amber Dumford, Sally Gaskill, Rebecca Houghton, and Steven Tepper — Previous research from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) suggests that while many arts alumni have entrepreneurial career paths, they may not be learning the much-needed accompanying business and financial skills during their undergraduate careers. As part of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the researchers developed the NSSE […]
NSSE Analysts Shimon Sarraf and Jim Cole will discuss ways to improve the quality of survey data during the Monday 3:50 p.m. session at this year's North East Association for Institutional Research conference in Baltimore, MD, Nov. 12-15.
NSSE staff will discuss their research at the upcoming POD conference, Transformative Relationships: Fostering Cultures of Deep Learning, in Louisville, KY, Nov. 9-13. Rong (Lotus) Wang and Allison BrckaLorenz will share their work on strategies for effective teaching of international students during the Friday 9:00 a.m. session.
NSSE analyst Angie Miller will share her work at this year's NAGC Annual Convention, to be held in Orlando, FL, from Nov. 3- 6. Her two research presentations focus on arts majors' career plans and confidence in various skills and learning outcomes, and benefits to learning strategies for high-achieving students attending Honors Colleges at the Saturday 12:00 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. sessions, respectively.
Adult Learners – Unique Paths to Academic Success
Karyn Rabourn, Rick Shoup, & Allison BrckaLorenz -- Adult learners are academically engaged despite fewer interactions with peers and faculty. Adult learners are a growing population who have unique desires for and challenges with higher education. A study of the academic engagement and campus interactions of adult learners found that compared to their traditional-aged peers, adult learners are more engaged academically, interact less with their peers and […]
The Who, What, and Where of Learning Strategies
Amber Dumford, Cindy Cogswell, and Angie Miller -- A recent study examined the congruence between student use and faculty encouragement of learning strategies associated with student learning for academic disciplines. The results indicate that certain fields of study, including health professions; biology, agriculture, and natural resources; and social service professions, most frequently emphasized and used learning strategies.