Results from The College at Brockport 2014 NSSE Survey

Presentation to President’s Advisory Council– 3/4/15

Presentation Overview

1.NSSE and the Concept of Student Engagement

2.Selected NSSE Results for Brockport3.Using Our NSSE Data4.Questions & Discussion

What is Student Engagement?

What students do – Time and energy devoted to studies and other educationally purposeful activities

What institutions do – Using resources and effective educational practices to induce students to do the right things

Educationally effective institutions channel student energy toward the right activities

NSSE Survey Content

Engagement in meaningful academic experiences

Engagement in meaningful academic experiences

Engagement in High-Impact Practices

Engagement in High-Impact Practices

Student Reactions to College

Student Reactions to College

Student BackgroundInformation

Student BackgroundInformation

Student Learning & Development

NSSE Engagement Indicators

Student – Faculty

Interaction

Academic Challenge

Experiences with Faculty

Learning with Peers

Campus Environment

Meaningful Academic Engagement Themes Engagement Indicators

Survey Administration

Census-administered to first-year & seniors

Spring administration

Multiple follow-ups to increase response rates

Topical Modules provide option to delve deeper into the student experience

Academic Advising

Development of Transferable Skills

Brockport’s Response Rate compared to NSSE 2014

Brockport’s response rate = 26% All NSSE 2014 institutions = 32%

NSSE 2014 U.S. Average Institutional Response Rates by Enrollment:

Undergraduate Enrollment

Number of Institutions

Avg. Institutional Response Rate

2,500 or fewer 271 39%

2,501 to 4,999 136 30%

5,000 to 9,999 111 24%

10,000 or more 104 22%

All institutions 622 32%

NSSE 2014 Respondents Compared to Population

Selected Sample ParametersFirst-year Students

Seniors

Resp % Pop % Resp % Pop %

African American/Black 10 9 5 7

Hispanic 3 4 4 4

White 73 75 81 79

Female 64 57 68 56

Selected NSSE Results for The College at Brockport

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Using NSSE Data

General Barometer – How are we doing?

Monitoring strategic plan progress

Survey results as conversation starters

More in-depth planning aids

Key to next 2 slides

Engagement Indicators: Brockport and Comparison Groups-FY Students

Engagement Indicators: Brockport and Comparison Groups-SR Students

Highest and lowest performing items among FY students compared to SUNY Comprehensives

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Highest and lowest performing items among SR students compared to SUNY Comprehensives

Monitoring Strategic Plan Progress Using NSSE Data (all items are mean scores)

Progress with HIPs

Progress with HIPs, cont.

Data Exercise with NSSE: More HIPs

Respondent Group

High Impact Practice

Participation Prediction

Participation Preference

Actual Participation

Looking w/in [subpop]

Faculty Value

Seniors Research w/faculty

• “Actual Participation”=% of students saying “done” or “in progress” by the time they graduate

• “Faculty value”=% of faculty who taught an upper-division course in spring ‘14 saying that they think it is “important” or “very important” that students work with a faculty member on a research project

• Subpopulations (Gender—M, F; Race/ethnicity—white, nonwhite as “Maj” and “Min”)

25% M F27% 25%

Min Maj37% 25%

62%

Do HIPs Matter? – Yes!

Not a cure-all but our HIPs index has small to moderate stat. sig. associations with a variety of other measures of student achievement, development, and satisfaction (all students). Outcomes Correlation

Self-reported grades .22

“Global” satisfaction measures

.12 & .17

Institution’s contribution to students’ knowledge, skills, and personal development in variety of areas

Corr coefficients ranging from .11 to .26 depending on specific item

Quality of Interactions w/Faculty

.26

Pay-off for minority students: HIPs correlation with self-reported institutional contributions to personal development in the following areas:

Item White Nonwhite Comparison

Writing .25 .35 ↑

Speaking .22 .30 ↑

Critical thinking

.24 .30 ↑

Job-related .23 .26 ↑

Working w/others

.22 .32 ↑

Personal code

.23 .28 ↑

Informed citizen

.15 .23 ↑

Questions & Discussion

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