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NSSE

National Survey of Student Engagement

Exchange item since 2000

Caretaker: Colorado

AAUDE, College Station, February 2009

Lou McClelland

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Website

http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsse-aaude/index.htm

AAUDE members -> exchange items -> students -> NSSE -> link to site

Link to private portion with AAUDE-NSSE shared data

Passwords available only to schools sharing data within last 5 years

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Process

School registers with NSSE in Aug-Sept for administration following spring

School elects to use AAUDE optional questions or not

School pays for basic, for optional Q’s, for any oversamples. Basic: freshmen, seniors

School sends eligible populations; NSSE samples

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Process - 2

NSSE in touch with Lou, Lou with schools Lou asks all AAU’s for multi-year data

sharing permission Independent of use of AAUDE optional Q’s Records are posted: Participants by year, if

optional Q’s, agreements on file http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsse-aaud

e/Partic.xls

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Process - 3

NSSE sends to Colorado, in ~August Response-level data from AAUDE schools with

data sharing agreements in place Metadata on populations, samples

Colorado adds to multi-year SAS dataset, augments user guide, posts, notifies

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Participation ’05 – ’09

All public AAU’s in the US except UC All sharing data except Penn State

Privates Sharing: Case, Syracuse, Tulane Not sharing: CMU, Emory, Rice

2008 – 19,200 shared responses from 13 schools, plus 1500 responses from targeted samples

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Response rates

15-25% for some; 40-50% for others; even differences by year within school

http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsse-aaude/ResponseRates.xls (public)

Solicited comment, tips for high rates, 12/08 – Zero response

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Helps for users

Codebooks for all years Multi-year dataset aligns over years Extensive user guide

Including tips on cross-school analyses

SAS formats Excel of basic stats Calculations for VSA listings (new ’08) - see

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L:\IR\survey\NSSE\AAUDE\All\Analysis\VSAItem_var\VSA_ItemVar.ppt

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2009

16 schools including 3 privates 13 are using AAUDE questions UNC using NSSE writing consortium

questions (http://comppile.org/wpa+nsse/test/index.htm)

Pilot: CU-Boulder split samples for both AAUDE and writing-consortium questions

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Further analyses, use

Need reports! Send to Lou By discipline

Students answer Q(s) re major Variable Q’s over years Need map of NSSE codes to CIPs --

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