Title: The University of Texas System National Survey of Student Engagement 2005 Results
1THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
The University of Texas System National Survey of
Student Engagement 2005 Results February 2006
2Program Overview
- What We Know about College Student Engagement and
Why is Engagement Important? - What is NSSE?
- NSSE 2005 Survey Administration
- University of Texas System Data
- Using NSSE Data
- Questions and Discussion
3What Do We Know AboutCollege Student Engagement?
- What percent of U. T. students spent more than
26 hours per week preparing for class?
First-Year
Seniors
Slightly more than 9
Approximately 11
4What Do We Know AboutCollege Student Engagement?
- What percent of U. T. students participated in a
community-based project as a part of a regular
course?
First-Year
Seniors
29
43
5What Do We Know AboutCollege Student Engagement?
- What percent of U. T. students spent more than 5
hours per week participating in co-curricular
activities?
First-Year
Seniors
23
33
6What is NSSE?(pronounced nessie)
- A national survey, administered to a random
sample of first year and senior year students. - Assesses the extent to which first-year and
senior students engage in educational practices
associated with high levels of learning and
development. - Co-sponsored by The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and the Pew Forum on
Undergraduate Learning and - Supported by grants from Lumina Foundation for
Education and the Center of Inquiry in the
Liberal Arts at Wabash College.
7NSSE Project Scope
- Almost a thousand different colleges/universities
- 50 states, Puerto Rico Canada
- Data from more than 880,000 students
- Institutions include Historically Black Colleges
and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions,
Tribal Colleges, and all female and all male
colleges - NSSE 2005 schools closely resemble the national
profile of four-year colleges and universities in
all areas.
8Student Characteristics 2005U. T. System
Students versus the National Sample
Age First Year less than 24 years old, Senior
Year 30 years or older, First Generation
Either parent attending or graduating from
college Working for Pay Off-Campus 11 or more
hours per week Caring for Dependents Caring for
spouse, parents or children 11 or more hours per
week
9Student Assessment of Educational Experience
- A significant number of both first-year and
senior students had a good educational experience
while attending a System school (87 first-year
students, 83 senior year students). - The majority of those students surveyed would
attend their respective schools if they had to
start over (83 first-year students, 82
senior-year students).
Student Assessment of Educational Experience
10Student Assessment-Skills and Personal Development
To what extent has your experience at this
institution contributed to your knowledge, skills
and personal development?
Percent of students responding quite a bit or
very much
11Student Assessment-Interaction with Faculty and
Administrative Staff Quality of Advising
12Thinking about your overall experience at this
institution, how would you rate the quality of
relationships with faculty and administrative
personnel and offices?
Student Assessment-Interaction with Faculty and
Administrative Staff
13Using NSSE
- Use with legislative agencies, board, faculty
groups, student groups - Legislative mandate
- System Accountability Report
- Results of the survey continue to be shared with
both the Student and Faculty Advisory Councils - Accreditation self-study
- Benchmarking and national comparisons
- Strategy Connect to strategic objectives,
promote strengths, target areas for improvement - Institutional Compacts U. T. Tyler
- DEEP (Documenting Effective Educational Practice)
U. T. El Paso - BEAMS (Building Engagement and Attainment of
Minority Students) 3 U. T. System Schools, U. T.
Pan American, - U. T. San Antonio and U. T. Permian Basin
14Institutional CompactU. T. Tyler
- Goal
- Superior Campus Life, Student Engagement,
- and Community Service
- A superior student life exists when students
feel safe and welcome, have a real sense of
belonging, and are actively engaged in several
activities out of a wide range of available
activities they deem to be meaningful,
educational, and/or fun. - Greater engagement and ensuing higher
satisfaction will, ultimately, increase retention
and make recruiting that much easier. Another
objective of more student engagement,
particularly through off-campus activities, is to
increase the visibility of our students in the
community and increase community satisfaction
with them and the University. -
15Institutional CompactU. T. Tyler
- Objective
- Increase the amount and quality of student life
on and off campus in order to increase student
satisfaction. - Student life which includes all aspects of
living, eating, working, and playing together on
campus helps students gel into a cohesive unit
and increases their level of satisfaction. Active
student engagement, both on and off campus,
increases satisfaction markedly, causing
everything about their education to proceed more
easily and successfully including learning. -
16Institutional CompactU. T. Tyler
- Strategies
-
- Develop a full program of activities that engage
students in and outside the classroom - Develop a full program of community service
opportunities to engage students beyond the
classroom - expand intramural sports
- create special traditions around matriculation
and graduation - plan and allow the Greek system to develop
- develop a significant array of student
housing-freshmen-oriented residence halls,
apartments and honors houses - expand concept of learning communities
- expand dining service
-
17Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority
Students
- The Building Engagement and Attainment of
Minority Students project (BEAMS) is a 5-year
initiative to improve retention, achievement, and
institutional effectiveness at Minority-Serving
Institutions (MSIs) that are members of the
Alliance for Equity in Higher Education. - BEAMS is a partnership between AIHEC and NSSE and
is funded by the Lumina Foundation for Education. - Participating institutions include Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Tribal
Colleges and Universities. - Through evidence from NSSE and other sources,
each institution commits to analyzing the scope
and character of students' engagement in their
learning and to implementing well-designed action
plans to improve engagement, learning,
persistence, and success.
18Documenting Effective Educational Practice
- NSSE and the American Association for Higher
Education (AAHE) collaborated on Project DEEP.
With support from Lumina Foundation for Education
and the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at
Wabash College. - In Fall 2002, a NSSE Institute research team
launched the project by conducting case studies
of 20 high-performing colleges and universities,
including large, small, urban, and special
mission institutions. - Selection criterion included schools that had
higher-than-predicted graduation rates and higher
than-predicted scores on the five NSSE clusters
of effective educational practice level of
academic challenge, active and collaborative
learning, student interaction with faculty
members, enriching educational experiences, and
supportive campus environment.
19Other NSSE Initiatives and U. T. System
Participation
- The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)
is designed to parallel the NSSE. The faculty
version 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 faculty-student
interactions and how faculty members organize
class time. - Community College Survey of Student Engagement
(CCSSE) was established in 2001 as a project of
the Community College Leadership Program at The
University of Texas at Austin. The survey,
administered to community college students, asks
questions that assess institutional practices and
student behaviors that are correlated highly with
student learning and student retention.
20NSSE Acknowledgement of U. T. System Assessment
and Strategic Planning Initiatives
- The NSSE Institute is gathering information on
system participation in the National Survey of
Student Engagement to showcase effective
strategies and examples of using NSSE results in
strategic planning, assessment initiatives,
accreditation efforts, research projects, and
public relations and marketing campaigns. - The University of Texas System Accountability and
Performance Report 2005 and the U. T. Tyler
Compact 2006-2007 are particularly useful
examples of how NSSE data can be integrated into
system analysis and planning. Our efforts will be
cited and linked to the NSSE Web site and
possibly included in a resource kit for other
systems.