SECTION I. NSSE

Consortium Codebooks

American Democracy Project
Arts Consortium
Associated New American Colleges
Association of American Universities Data Exchange
Catholic Colleges and Universities
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
Jesuit Colleges and Universities
2007 Kentucky System
Private Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities
Teagle Integrated Learning Consortium
Texas A&U
Urban Universities
Women's Colleges
Work Colleges

General questions about NSSE Institutional Reports

1. Where can I find the electronic version of my institutional report and SPSS data files? (a.k.a. Where is my institutional report CD?)

Questions about the Construction of the NSSE Comparison Reports

2. What changes were made to the NSSE 2007 Institutional Report?
3. Which students are used in the comparison report calculations?
4. Why do our comparison groups have different numbers of respondents (or degrees of freedom ) across the NSSE comparison reports (Respondent Characteristics table, Frequency Distributions report, Mean Comparisons report, and Benchmark Comparisons report)?
5. Why do the degrees of freedom (df) in my Mean Comparisons Report and Benchmark Comparisons Report sometimes change considerably from one item to another?
6. How is weighting used in the 2007 comparison report calculation process?
7. Why don't counts on my Frequency Distributions and Means Comparisons Reports match?
8. Can I obtain the weights used in my institution's reports?
9. When is it appropriate for me to use NSSE's weights for calculations?

Questions about the Benchmark Comparisons Report

10. How were the 2007 benchmarks calculated?
11. Which NSSE survey items are included in the 2007 benchmarks?
12. What changes were made to the 2007 Benchmark Comparisons Report?
13. What changes were made in the NSSE benchmark calculation process in 2004?
14. What are student-level benchmark scores, and how are they used in creating the institutional benchmarks?
15. Why change the benchmark comparisons report from institutional-level comparisons top student-level comparisons?
16. What happened to the decile distributions and engagement index that used to be part of the benchmarks report?
17. How were the top 50% and the top 10% institutions selected?
18. Can I obtain names of the top 50% and the top 10% institutions?
19. What adjustments are made for part-time students?
20. Why is my student-faculty interaction score on the benchmark recalculation report different from the one in my benchmark comparisons report?
21. Why are my enriching educational experiences benchmark scores much lower in my 2007 report than in my 2001-2003 reports?

Questions about Comparing NSSE Results

22. Can I calculate my own benchmark scores for intra-institutional comparisons?
23. Why do I have three different weight variables in my NSSE 2007 SPSS data file?
24. How comparable are benchmark scores from year to year?
25. Can I compare my 2007 benchmark scores to those from previous years?
26. Can I request a report that compares my institution to a group of peer institutions?
27. Can I obtain recalculated benchmarks for Carnegie groups, consortia or selected peers from past years?
28. As I compare our Pocket Guide report (i.e., “What Students Are Saying…”) and Frequency Distributions report, why are some items listed under different Benchmarks?