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ERIC Number: ED493829
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2006-May
Pages: 36
Abstractor: Author
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Validating the National Survey of Student Engagement against Student Outcomes: Are They Related?
Gordon, Jonathan; Ludlum, Joe; Hoey, J. Joseph
Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) (46th, Chicago, IL, May 14-18, 2006)
While there exist many examples of institutional use of the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), there is a relative paucity of research explicitly linking student outcomes to responses on the survey. A major Doctoral-Extensive institution in the Southeast recently conducted a large-scale implementation of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). We have linked multiple years of NSSE responses to several student outcomes: freshman retention, GPA, pursuit of graduate education, and employment outcome upon commencement/degree conferral. Our research finds minimal explanatory power in the NSSE benchmarks for these outcomes. A statistically-derived model from the individual NSSE items shows greater promise, although there are difficulties in replicating the model for previous student cohorts. NSSE Benchmark Models; Scalelets; and Regression Models are appended. (Contains 9 tables and 11 endnotes.)
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Survey of Student Engagement
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