Transcript Overview 2/09

NSSE
National Survey of Student Engagement
Exchange item since 2000
Caretaker: Colorado
AAUDE, College Station, February 2009
Lou McClelland
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Website
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http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsseaaude/index.htm
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AAUDE members -> exchange items -> students
-> NSSE -> link to site
Link to private portion with AAUDE-NSSE
shared data
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Passwords available only to schools sharing
data within last 5 years
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Process
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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
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NSSE in touch with Lou, Lou with schools
Lou asks all AAU’s for multi-year data
sharing permission
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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/nsseaaude/Partic.xls
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Process - 3
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NSSE sends to Colorado, in ~August
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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
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Privates
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All sharing data except Penn State
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
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15-25% for some; 40-50% for others; even
differences by year within school
http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsseaaude/ResponseRates.xls (public)
Solicited comment, tips for high rates, 12/08
– Zero response
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Helps for users
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Codebooks for all years
Multi-year dataset aligns over years
Extensive user guide
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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
2009
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16 schools including 3 privates
13 are using AAUDE questions
UNC using NSSE writing consortium
questions
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(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
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Need reports! Send to Lou
By discipline
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Students answer Q(s) re major
Variable Q’s over years
Need map of NSSE codes to CIPs -Volunteers?
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