National Survey of Student Engagement Faculty Survey NSSE

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National Survey of
Student Engagement Faculty Survey
(NSSE) (FSSE) 2006

• Wayne State University

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Overview

• A Short Intro to NSSE FSSE
• WSU 2006 Sample Findings
• Ways to Stimulate Change by Use of NSSE
• Discussion

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21st Century Students and the College Experience

• College-going stakes higher today than at any
  point in history
• 25 students in 4yr-colleges depart during their
  first year, WSU slightly higher, at 30.
• Enrollment persistence rates of historically
  underserved students are lagging
• 49 of high school grads do not have the reading
  skills necessary for college 25 of students in
  4-yr colleges need 1 yr of remedial coursework

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What Really Matters in College Student Engagement

• The research is unequivocal
• students who are actively involved
• in both academic and out-of-class activities
• gain more from the college experience
• than those who are not as involved.

Pascarella Terenzini. (1991). How college
affects students.
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What is NSSE? Student Survey of Student
Engagement

• Evaluates the extent
  to which
• first-year and senior
  students
• engage
• in educational practices associated with
• high levels of learning and development

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What does NSSE Cover? (The College Student
Report)

• Student Behaviors in College
• (engage in effective educational practices)

Student Learning Development
Institutional Actions And Requirements (perceptio
n of educational environment)

• Student Reactions to College
• (estimate of educational personal growth)

Student Background Information (demographic
academic)
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NSSE Reports
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NSSE Reports (continued)
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NSSE Benchmarks
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Benchmark Report andExecutive Summary
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Benchmark Report
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Where can I find WSUs NSSE Results?

• WSUs 2006 NSSE results, along with this
  presentation, can be found on the OIR website
• http//www.oir.wayne.edu/

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WSU 2006 Sample ResultsWhat Do We Know
AboutCollege Student Engagement?

• of students doingcommunity service or
  volunteer work

WSU, other Urban Univ., DRE Univ.
First-Year
Senior
29 31 39
49 48 63
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How Does NSSE Inform What We Know about Student
Engagement?

• of students spending 26 hours per week
  preparing for class
• WSU, other Urban Univ., DRE Univ.

First-Year
Senior
More than 7 More than 11 More than 13
More than 7 More than 6 More than 11
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NSSE 2006WSUs 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 2006 Peer Group Benchmarking

• Discuss ideas from your readings or classes with
  faculty members outside of class.
• WSU is more similar to its urban counterparts
  than to its DRE peers.

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NSSE Participation

• Almost 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 gender colleges
• National WSU Comparison groups Urban
  Universities, and Carnegie Type, i.e., Doctoral
  Research Extensive (DRE)

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What is FSSE? Faculty Survey of Student
Engagement

• To date more than 34,000
  faculty members at 276
  four-year institutions
• The FSSE parallels NSSE's survey of
  undergraduate students focusing 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?

• 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 Student Engagement vis-à-vis
NSSE?
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NSSE / FSSE Gap Analysis
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3. Enhance Faculty Development NSSE / FSSE Gap
Matrix
Miss
Hit
Miss
Hit
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• Sustaining
• a Changed Campus Environment
• through NSSE

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Making Sustainable Institutional Changes from the
NSSE Data
Instituting Sustainable Change A Key To Student
Success The path to institutional improvement is
littered with failed and faltering interventions,
often because too little thought is given to
where the resources or energy will come from to
sustain the efforts beyond a first or second
cycle.
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Framing the Question of Stimulating Change

• How can information about the student experience
  be used to stimulate change and improvement on
  campus?

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Identify Problems in the Student Experience

• Persistence
• Under-engaged students
• Fragmented General Education program
• Tired pedagogical practices
• Poor first-year experience
• Low academic challenge
• Connections to a real world
• Capstone experiences

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Get Grass Roots Buy-In

• Examples
• Ask faculty/chairs What surprised you
• Ask deans about their concerns
• Focus groups
• Get students engaged in the improvement efforts
  (e.g., Illinois State, Oregon State)

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Put Someone in Charge

• When everyone is responsible for something, no
  one is accountable for it
• Get senior leadership on board
• Some individual or group must coordinate and
  monitor status of initiatives
• Those in charge not solely responsible for
  bringing about change
• Form high profile think force or similar group

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A How to Agenda for Stimulating Change through
NSSE

• Link to Mission Accreditation
• Share Information Widely
• Enhance Faculty Development
• Benchmark (External Internal)
• Connect to Outcomes and Other Campus Data
• Emphasize Effective Educational Practices

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3. Enhance Faculty Development

• Example from
• Texas State University,
• San Marcos
• Creation of an Student Engagement Mini-Grant
  (2,500 start-up resources for up to 2 years)
• Help academic departments introduce students
  engagement initiatives
• Designed to improve departments engagement of
  its students during their first semester at the
  university

• Faculty Retreats Workshops
• Scholarship of Teaching Learning
• Course Evaluations
• Incentive Programs
• Tip of the Week
• FSSE / NSSE Gap Analysis

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4. Benchmark Internal
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4. Benchmark Internal
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4. Benchmark - External

• Consortia
• Current Peer Groups
• Aspirant Groups
• Special Analyses

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Institutional Examples

• Many schools are stimulating change and
  improvement on campus by using student engagement
  data.

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Using NSSE University of Missouri in St. Louis

• Urban public research university
• NSSE Participation (begins with 2000 pilot)
• From administrative use only in 2000 to 2003,
  2004 campus-wide forums
• From denial of results to colleges verifying,
  faculty discussions, and Action Plan benchmarks

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Using NSSE - UMSL - College Activities

• College efforts sampling
• Arts and Sciences appended with permission 15
  NSSE items to fall semester 2002 course
  evaluations
• College of Business Administration includes all
  majors in capstone course in its sample
• Honors College oversamples its freshmen and
  seniors
• College efforts discussion and action
• Presentations about NSSE invited by COE, CBA
• A S Deans charge to departments
• Embracing undergraduate research

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Using NSSE - North Carolina State University

• Created individual reports for Student Affairs
  programs
• ORIENTATION Identified NSSE items that could be
  influenced by a students orientation experience
• Preparing for class Making College Count
• Understanding people of other racial and ethnic
  backgrounds OC training
• Developing personal code of values and ethics
  WolfCamp
• Contributing to welfare of your community
  Volunteer Corps

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Using NSSE - University of Wisconsin, Platteville

• The University of Wisconsin at Platteville has
  developed a strategic plan utilizing NSSE to
  formulate objectives based on areas of need.
• Example is Goal 4
• Initiative 4.1 6.2 Use periodic accountability
  surveys of students to report student opinion
  about campus climates and how they can be
  improved
• Action Plan Collect information from students
  majority and minority via NSSE to assess
  their needs regarding racial and ethnic diversity

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Using NSSE University of Wisconsin Stevens
Point

• The Student Success Advisory Committee
  requested a map of student success activities.
• Interviews were carried out with academic
  department chairs to uncover what activities they
  are engaged in to bolster student success.
• Interviews with academic department chairs were
  organized around five benchmark items from the
  NSSE survey. This was done to learn what types
  of specific activities departments and units do
  that might affect NSSE responses and to gauge
  awareness of NSSE items by campus faculty and
  staff.

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NSSE Web Database for Academic Departments
http//iea.fau.edu/nsse/nsse.asp
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• Questions Discussion

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How Do I Find Out More?
Paul N. Moniodis, Executive Director, Office of
Institutional Research Thomas J. Wilhelm,
Director, Testing, Evaluation Research
NSSE Website www.iub.edu/nsse