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Jankowski, Natasha A.; Timmer, Jennifer D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2018
Over the past decade, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) has been documenting what colleges and universities are doing to gather evidence about student learning and helping institutions to productively use assessment data to strengthen undergraduate education. NILOA also has been monitoring how institutions communicate…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
Kuh, George D.; Ikenberry, Stanley O.; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Cain, Timothy Reese; Ewell, Peter T.; Hutchings, Pat; Kinzie, Jillian – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
The expectation for accountability is legitimate. In order to have the desired effects, evidence of what students know and can do must respond to genuine institutional needs and priorities. Far too often, that condition is not met. On too many campuses, assessment activity is mired in a culture of compliance rather than driven by collective…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Compliance (Psychology), Educational Trends
Kuh, George D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Schuh, John H.; Whitt, Elizabeth J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
A few years ago, in "Student Success in College (SSiC)," the authors profiled twenty colleges and universities that were unusually effective in fostering student engagement and success, defined as better-than-predicted scores on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and better-than-predicted graduation rates. These schools are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Academic Achievement, Colleges
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Ikenberry, Stanley O.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D.; Shenoy, Gloria F.; Baker, Gianina R. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2012
The Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) is a vehicle for public four-year universities to report comparable information about the undergraduate student experience via the College Portrait, a common web reporting template. The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) was asked by the VSA to evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Access to Information, Disclosure, Public Colleges
Kinzie, Jillian; Gonyea, Robert; Shoup, Rick; Kuh, George D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Significant progress has been made over the past four decades in enrolling more students from historically underrepresented groups in U.S. colleges and universities. While total enrollment increased by about 40% overall, minority student enrollment increased by 146%, with Hispanic undergraduate enrollment greatly outpacing other racial/ethnic…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Ethnic Groups, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
Whitt, Elizabeth J.; Kinzie, Jillian; Schuh, John H.; Kuh, George D. – About Campus, 2008
The Inventory for Student Engagement and Success (ISES) is a self-guided framework for conducting a comprehensive, systematic analysis of the properties and conditions for student success that are present at an institution. It can be used to assess an entire institution; units within an institution, such as a school or department or an academic or…
Descriptors: Campuses, Cultural Influences, Minority Groups, Academic Achievement
Kuh, George D.; Kinzie, Jillian – National Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
To aid members of the news media in looking at the issues of quality in postsecondary education, the authors of the recently published "Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter" distill some useful factors for the media and the general public to use in assessing the quality of education at four-year colleges and universities.…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Practices, News Media, Success
Kuh, George D.; Cruce, Ty M.; Shoup, Rick; Kinzie, Jillian; Gonyea, Robert M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2008
This study aims to determine the relationships between key student behaviors and the institutional practices and conditions that foster student success. To do so, student-level records from different types of colleges and universities are merged to examine the links between student engagement and two key outcomes of college: academic achievement…
Descriptors: Relationship, Student Behavior, Educational Environment, Educational Practices
Kinzie, Jillian L.; Thomas, Auden D.; Palmer, Megan M.; Umbach, Paul D.; Kuh, George D. – Journal of College Student Development, 2007
This study compared the experiences of women attending women's colleges with those of women attending coeducational institutions. Analyses of data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) from random samples of female first-year and senior students from 26 women's colleges and 264 other four-year institutions were conducted. Women at…
Descriptors: Females, Educational Practices, White Students, Transfer Students
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Kuh, George D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Schuh, John H.; Whitt, Elizabeth J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
College costs are rising and enrollments are at an all-time high, yet the proportion of students earning degrees has stayed more or less constant for decades. This leads some to conclude that colleges aren't holding up their end of the educational bargain. The question, Do they graduate? is receiving the most scrutiny by state legislatures and by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Effectiveness, Higher Education, Graduation Rate