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NSSE’s 20th Anniversary Reveals Promising Trends in Engagement
Anniversaries are a good time to reflect on change and stability over time. As NSSE enters its third decade surveying hundreds of thousands of college students each year, we can take a long look back to identify any trends. Certainly, much has happened in higher education since NSSE's launch in 2000 - the assessment of teaching and learning has gained in sophistication, […]
Using Incentives and Learning Management Systems to Boost Survey Response: Do They Work?
Survey incentives and the posting of links to learning management systems (LMS) appear to substantially improve response rates regardless of institutional control and enrollment size. Incentives and, more recently, posting survey links to LMSs are increasingly used to boost response rates among NSSE participating institutions. Past studies aimed at understanding the impact of incentives among a college student population, however, have often relied […]
New in 2021! Developing the Career and Workforce Preparation Topical Module
Due to a growing concern over students' preparation for the workplace by employers and higher education institutions alike, the need for evidence of employability as an educational outcome has increased. Institutions utilize resources such as career services, experiential learning, and interactions with members of the campus community in order to prepare students for the labor market and the expectations that come along […]
In name only? Assessing Quality and Equity in High-Impact Practices
Often lauded as transformational educational experiences, High-Impact Practices (HIPS) play a key role in the undergraduate experience. Yet the success of these practices depends in part on implementation that may vary between programs and institutions. The eagerness to label practices high-impact, or to focus exclusively on participation in these activities, may have distracted educators and administrators from ensuring these activities provide the particular and […]
Person-Centered Approaches to Inclusive Data Analysis
At the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Virtual Forum 2020, Allison BrckaLorenz, Thomas Nelson Laird, & I presented a live-simulated session about person-centered approaches to inclusive data analysis. A person-centered approach focuses on identifying different groups of individuals that share similar experiences and outcomes in higher education. This approach is designed to complement a traditional variable-centered approach that focuses on the association […]
Friendly Preparation Tips for NSSE Administration
We'd like to highlight two important administration topics for you: incentive messages and disposition files! Incentive messages Sometimes institutions wonder about how specific and detailed the information included in incentive texts should be. Here is an incentive template NSSE provides when schools decide to offer gift card drawings, which includes all the specifications required for the incentive to adhere to IRB guidelines: […]
So Many NSSE Topical Modules… Making Your Decision for NSSE 2021
NSSE annually offers the option of Topical Modules--short question sets, appended to the core survey, on focused areas such as academic advising, civic engagement, transferable skills, writing, first-year experiences and senior transitions, global learning, and diversity and inclusion. Institutions can append up to two additional sets of questions, either a customized set as part of a consortium or a Topical Module. About 90% […]
NSSE’s New Content: Effective Teaching, Covid, Online Learning, and Work Preparation
Given the COVID-19 pandemic's substantial impact on higher education, the content of NSSE 2021 will differ from previous years in several ways. Our aim is to ensure that institutions have a robust set of assessment tools to help them during this unique time. We are changing a number of items on the core survey instrument and adding to our Topical Module offerings. To make […]
Response Rates of FSSE Between 2019 and 2020
Given the almost universal impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions, we decided to descriptively see how response rates differed between last year (2019) and this year (2020) for the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE). FSSE captures information from instructional staff at four-year colleges and universities about their experiences teaching, interacting with students, and filling many other roles. Faculty from 120 institutions […]
Data on Display: NSSE, FSSE, and BCSSE in Graduate Student Coursework
Doctoral students are often tasked with conducting research in and outside of their required coursework. When reviewing assignment details, a phrase that some students find daunting is, "provide your own data." I was one of those students. Where can you get data? How do you know it's reliable? Then a classmate of mine told me about the Center for Postsecondary Research (CPR) and how […]