NSSE posts new summary of survey data relevance and utility.
More than 400 colleges and universities have shared their NSSE benchmark results with USA TODAY. Read more...
Employment Opportunities.
CLASSE: Measuring student engagement at the classroom level.
Review the new resource: Contextualizing NSSE Effect Sizes.
Previously recorded Webinars are available for viewing.
New resource on the NSSE Web site: Examples of institutional Web sites that display NSSE results.
Learn about NSSE and Voluntary System of Accountability.
Transparency and public reporting: NSSE's position.
Findings from BEAMS Project Released by IHEP.
Student engagement is part of our strategic plan and woven through our Quality Enhancement Plan for the reaffirmation of our accreditation through SACS, "Engaging Students in a Culture of Scholarship."
John T. Masterson, Executive Vice President and Provost, Texas Lutheran University
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NSSE Institute Awarded Grant to Study How Colleges Improve
The Spencer Foundation has awarded a major grant to the NSSE Institute and the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research to fund a two-year project, Learning to Improve: A Study of Evidence-Based Improvement in Higher Education. The project will involve in-depth investigation of institutions that show a pattern of improved NSSE results over time to identify the activities that led to improved performance and to draw lessons to inform improvement efforts on other campuses. Read more about NSSE findings related to improvement trends in student engagement in our Annual Results 2009 report, Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement Over Time.
BCSSE 2009 Grand Frequencies and Means Now Available
The BCSSE 2009 grand results are now available. For than 73,000 first-year students enrolled at 129 institutions from across the country completed BCSSE. The grand results are reported overall and by institution types. For more information about BCSSE, visit: http://bcsse.iub.edu/
NSSE Annual Results 2009 Available Now
NSSE's Annual Results 2009 reports that a variety of colleges and universities have shown steady improvement in the quality of undergraduate education, as measured by students' exposure to and involvement in effective educational practices. Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement Over Time details results from our 2009 survey of 360,000 students attending 617 U.S. colleges and universities, and it includes a special look at trends in student engagement at more than 200 of those schools that had four to six year's worth of data going back to 2004.
NSSE 10th Anniversary Symposium: "Student Engagement and Educational Quality: An Agenda for the Next Decade"
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) commemorated its milestone 10th anniversary by hosting an invitational symposium on October 24-25, 2009, at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis, IN. "Student Engagement and Educational Quality: An Agenda for the Next Decade," provided an occasion to reflect on the history and growth of NSSE as a widely used institutional assessment tool, examine current practices and research in student engagement, and look ahead to NSSE’s role in an increasingly complex environment of assessment, improvement and accountability in higher education.
Symposium materials including a list of participants, schedule, NSSE timeline, presentations, and brief highlights from the roundtable sessions are now posted to the NSSE Web site. MP3 recordings from the sessions are also available for streamed listening or download. Proceedings as well as video and additional audio recordings will be available in early December.
New Resource Available on How Institutions Use Their NSSE Results
In the new publication, Using NSSE to Assess and Improve Undergraduate Education: Lessons from the Field 2009, we highlight the approaches different types of institutions have taken to use their NSSE results in innovative ways to improve the undergraduate experience. The volume captures emerging lessons from the field and provides instructive accounts and inspirational examples of how colleges and universities are using NSSE results to enhance undergraduate teaching and learning. Copies will be included in the Institutional Report 2009 and are also available for download from the NSSE Web site, www.nsse.iub.edu/links/lessons.
Using NSSE in Institutional Research – New Directions for Institutional Research, Vol 141 (Spring 2009)
Robert M. Gonyea and George D. Kuh (Eds.)
This volume explains the value and relevance of student engagement data, with an emphasis on how results from NSSE have been used for various purposes. The chapter authors discuss how student engagement data can help colleges and universities satisfy the demand for more evidence, accountability, and transparency of student and institutional performance.