Sample Presentation Of NSSE 2006

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Sample Presentation Of NSSE 2006

• Sample College/University
• Names of Presenter(s)

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PowerPoint Presentation Notes to NSSE 2006 Users

• This sample presentation is designed to help NSSE
  users present NSSE 2006 data to different groups
• These slides provide information about NSSE (the
  survey instrument, survey administration, and the
  project scope) and offer examples of how to
  present your NSSE 2006 data
• You should replace the cover slide and the red
  text throughout this presentation with the name
  of your school and your own 2006 data. Please
  adapt any slide to meet your goals and the
  interests of your audience
• View the notes section of each slide for
  additional information (in the PowerPoint tool
  bar select view then notes page)

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Program Overview

• What do you know about college student
  engagement?
• Why is student engagement important?
• What is NSSE?
• NSSE 2006
• Sample College/University data
• Using NSSE data
• Questions and discussion

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What Do We Know aboutCollege Student Engagement?

• What percentage of our students (in comparison
  to selected peers) participate in community
  service or volunteer work?

Class Sample University Selected Peers
First-Year More than x More than x
Seniors More than x More than x
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What Do We Know aboutCollege Student Engagement?

• What percentage of Sample U. students spent more
  than 5 hours per week participating in
  co-curricular activities?

Class Sample University Selected Peers
First-Year More than x More than x
Seniors More than x More than x
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What Really Matters in College Student Engagement

• The research is unequivocal-
• Impact of college is largely determined by
  individual effort.
• Students are not passive recipients of
  institutional efforts to educate or change
  them.
• Important to focus on ways in which an
  institution can shape its academic,
  interpersonal, and extracurricular offerings to
  encourage student engagement.

Pascarella Terenzini. (2005). How college
affects students A third decade of research
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What is NSSE?(pronounced nessie)

• Evaluates the extent to which first-year and
  senior students engage in educational practices
  associated with high levels of learning and
  development
• Supported by grants from Lumina Foundation for
  Education and the Center of Inquiry in the
  Liberal Arts at Wabash College
• Co-sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the
  Advancement of Teaching

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Why A National Survey?

• Refocus conversations about undergraduate quality
  to what matters most
• Enhance institutional improvement efforts
• Foster comparative and consortium activity
• Inform accountability
• Provide systematic national data on good
  educational practices

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Effective Educational Practices

• Student-faculty contact
• Active learning
• Prompt feedback
• Time on task
• High expectations
• Cooperation among students
• Respect for diverse talents and ways of learning

Chickering and Gamson. (1987). Seven principles
of good practice in undergraduate education.
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NSSE Project Scope

• More than 1,100 different colleges and
  universities
• 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada
• Data from more than 1,225,000 students
• Institutions include Historically Black Colleges
  and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions,
  Tribal Colleges, and same sex colleges

Year Colleges/ Universities
2001 321
2002 367
2003 437
2004 473
2005 529
2006 557
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Use and Validity of Self-Reports

• Validity of Self-Reporting Improves When
• Requested information is known to respondents
• Questions are clear and unambiguous
• Respondents take questions seriously and
  thoughtfully
• Answering does not threaten, embarrass, or
  violate privacy or compel a socially desirable
  response

National assessment experts designed the NSSE
survey to meet these conditions
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What Does NSSE Cover?

• Student Behaviors in College

Student Learning Development
Institutional Actions And Requirements

• Student Reactions to College

Student Background Information
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Survey Administration

• Administered to random sample of first-year
  senior students
• Paper Web-based survey
• Flexible to accommodate consortium questions
• Multiple follow-ups to increase response rates

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NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practice

• Campus Audits Comprehensive or targeted campus
  audits to identify institutional strengths and
  challenges
• Workshops Institution-based, regional, and
  consortium workshops to assist with improvement
  initiatives
• On-going Research and Evaluation Focused
  research and evaluation of initiatives and
  specific campus evaluation needs

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NSSE Institute Projects

• Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP)
  Project The DEEP project examined the everyday
  workings of 20 colleges and universities with
  higher-than-predicted graduation rates and NSSE
  benchmark scores. Findings provide institutional
  success stories about policies and practices that
  more fully engage students in productive learning
  activities.
• Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority
  (BEAMS) Project The BEAMS project is a five-year
  initiative to assist Historically Black,
  Hispanic-serving, and Tribal colleges and
  universities to use student engagement data for
  institutional improvement.
• Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement
  (BCSSE) This pilot project measured entering
  first-year students high school academic and
  co-curricular involvement, as well as the
  importance these students placed on their
  participation in educationally purposeful
  activities during college. About 70 institutions
  participated in this pilot study this data will
  be analyzed Fall 2006 in preparation for a full
  BCSSE administration in 2007.

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Project DEEP Focus

• This two-year project offers a rich catalogue of
  best practices that are adaptable to a variety of
  institutions. Institutions can benefit from these
  success stories as they consider how to turn
  their NSSE results into action plans for
  promoting student success.

• Project DEEP was sponsored by the American
  Association for Higher Education (AAHE) and the
  Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash
  College.

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Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority
Students (BEAMS)

• 5-year project serving up to 150 four-year
  colleges and university that are members of the
  Alliance for Equity in Higher Education.
• Institutions analyze the scope and character of
  student engagement data and implement an action
  plan to improve engagement, learning, and
  persistence.

• BEAMS is supported by Lumina Foundation for
  Education, the Institute for Higher Education
  Policy, and the Alliance for Equity in Higher
  Education.

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Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) 2006

• To date more than 75,000 faculty respondents from
  382 four-year institutions have participated

FSSE parallels NSSE's survey of undergraduate
students and focuses on

• Faculty perceptions of how often their students
  engage in different activities
• The importance faculty place on various areas of
  learning and development
• The nature and frequency of interactions faculty
  have with students
• How faculty members organize class time.
• Results intended as catalyst for discussions
  about quality of students' educational experience

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How Does FSSE Inform What We Know about Student
Engagement?

• What percentage of Sample University students
  spent more than 6 hours per week preparing for
  each of their classes?

First-Year
Senior
More than x
More than x
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How Does FSSE Inform What We Know about Student
Engagement?

• One-third (33) of faculty expect students to
  spend greater than 6 hours preparing for each
  class in a week
• Less than one-tenth (8) actually think that
  students spend this amount of time
• While slightly over one-tenth (11) of students
  actually spend this amount of time

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How Does FSSE Inform What We Know about Student
Engagement?
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NSSE 2006 Institutional Report

• Overview
• Respondent Characteristics
• Frequency Distributions
• Mean Comparisons Report
• Benchmark Comparisons
• Codebook
• Using NSSE Data

• Accreditation Toolkit
• Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement
  (BCSSE)
• Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)
• NSSE Institute
• Institutional Data

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NSSE 2006 Institutionsby the 2000 Carnegie
Classification
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NSSE 2006 Institutionsby the 2005 Carnegie
Classification
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NSSE 2006 RespondentsRace and Ethnicity
N/A
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NSSE 2006 Response Rates

• Your institutions response rate x
• Average Institutional Response Rates
• 39 for all NSSE 2006 institutions
• 37 for Paper mode institutions
• 41 for Web-only institutions
• 39 for Web institutions
• Response rates ranged from 10 to 81

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NSSE 2006Your Institutions Results

• Thinking about your overall experience at this
  institution, how would you rate the quality of
  relationships with faculty and administrative
  personnel and offices?

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NSSE 2004 NSSE 2006Your Institutions Results

• Thinking about your overall experience at this
  institution, to what extent does the college
  encourage contact between students from different
  economic, social, and racial or ethnic
  backgrounds?

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Carnegie Group Comparisonwith Your
Institutions Results

• In thinking about your undergraduate program as a
  whole, including your major, have you done a
  culminating senior experience (e.g., senior
  comprehensive exam, capstone course, thesis or
  project)?

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NSSE 2006 Promising Findings

• Although most students (x) would attend Your
  Institution if they could start over again, only
  x-thirds of students (x) say they had a good or
  excellent educational experience

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NSSE 2006 Disappointing Findings

• Almost x-fifths (x) of first-year students
  never made a class presentation
• Almost x-fifths (x) of all students say our
  institution emphasizes spending significant
  amounts of time on studying and academic work

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Using NSSE Data
Areas of Effective Educational Practice

• Discover current levels of engagement
  (institution, major field, year in school)
• Determine if current levels are satisfactory
  (criterion reference, normative, or peer
  comparison)
• Target areas for improvement
• Modify programs and policies accordingly
• Teach students what is required to succeed
• Monitor student institutional performance

Areas for Institutional Improvement
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Internal Campus Uses

• Gauge status of campus priorities
• Examine changes in student engagement between
  first and senior years
• Assess campus progressover time
• Encourage dialogue aboutgood practice
• Link with other data to test hypotheses,
  evaluateprograms
• Improve curricula, instruction, services

LearningCommunities
1ST Year and Senior Experience
EnrollmentManagement
InstitutionalResearch
AcademicAffair
Institutional Improvement
LearningAssessment
StudentAffair
FacultyDevelopment
PeerComparison
AcademicAdvising
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External Campus Uses

• Assess status vis-à-vis peers, competitors
• Identify, develop, market distinctive
  competencies
• Encourage collaboration in consortia (e.g.,
  statewide NSSE conference)
• Provide evidence of accountability for good
  processes (while awaiting improvement in outcomes)

GoverningBoards
FundRaising
Parents
ProspectiveStudents
Media
PublicAccountability
AccreditingBodies
Alumni
StatePolicyMakers
Focus on Right Things
PerformanceIndicators
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Example of Use at Small College

• Finding Lack of interaction between faculty and
  first-year students
• Action Faculty-student mentoring program
  established for first-year students

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Example of Use at Small College

• Finding Lower than expected engagement of
  first-year students
• Action Developed a first-year learning community
  program

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Using NSSE Liberal Arts College

• Use NSSE results to introduce new students to
  campus norms for student engagement
• Invite faculty to complete NSSE survey during
  campus workshop to increase buy-in
• Additional analysis by Office of Educational
  Research and Evaluation
• NSSE benchmarks can frame further inquiries about
  student engagement initiated by student affairs
  division

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Using NSSE Masters Institution

• Participation in 2006 for use in accreditation
  self-study
• Report results in Alumni magazine
• Development Office use data in fundraising
  campaigns
• More extensive peer analysis particularly in the
  student affairs area
• Strategy Connect to strategic objectives,
  promote strengths, target areas for improvement

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Example of Use atLarge University

• Finding Student participation in enriching
  educational experiences below expectations
• Action Adjustments made to course curricula and
  faculty teaching practices

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Example of Use atLarge University

• Finding Number of classroom writing assignments
  below expectations
• Action Recommended an increase in writing
  assignments across the curriculum

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Using NSSE Research Institution

• Local news piece on institutional results
• First reports to the Provost and Deans Council
• Presentation to Board of Trustees
• Benchmarking for accreditation
• Special institutional campaign and use at
  University conference
• Student Affairs program review

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Using NSSE Doctoral University

• Use with board, faculty groups, and student
  groups
• New student orientation
• Alumni sponsored send-off party for new freshmen
• Publications and communications
• Retention planning and student satisfaction
• Benchmarking and national comparisons

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How Do I Find Out More?
Your Institutions Representative E-mail_at_your.inst
itution.edu
NSSE Website www.nsse.iub.edu
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