Lessons from the Field
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Lessons from the Field is a growing repository of practical ideas for NSSE institutions' evidence-based assessment and improvement initiatives.
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Item NSSE Lessons from the Field Dispatch 3 complete(Center for Postsecondary Research, 2023-04-23) NSSELessons From the Field is a growing repository of practical ideas for NSSE institutions' evidence-based assessment and improvement initiatives. Read more than 120 data use stories in volumes 1-4 via links to the full publication, the most recent examples in the Lessons from the Field Dispatches.Item Lessons from the Field: Transitioning to the Updated NSSE(Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, 2017-07) National Survey of Student EngagementLaunched in 2013, the updated NSSE, FSSE, and BCSSE surveys herald a new era in higher education survey research and data use. Maintaining NSSE’s signature focus on diagnostic and actionable information related to student engagement in educationally effective experiences, the updated survey instruments introduce rigorously tested new and refined items, new summary measures, and topical modules. These changes with the updated instruments open new ways to look at a campus’s survey results and widen opportunities for action. Receiving the Institutional Report binder containing the campus reports and SPSS data file should signal the beginning of data use. This document highlights how four institutions responded to and used data from their 2013 NSSE administration.Item How CIC Institutions Are Using NSSE Data(Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, 2018) National Survey of Student EngagementItem How AAU Institutions Use NSSE Data(Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, 2019) National Survey of Student EngagementItem How AASCU Institutions Use NSSE Data(Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, 2019) National Survey of Student EngagementItem Lessons from the field-Volume 4: Digging Deeper to Focus and Extend Data Use(Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University School of Education, 2017) National Survey of Student EngagementItem Lessons from the field-Volume 3: Using data to catalyze change on campus(Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University School of Education, 2015) National Survey of Student EngagementVolume 3 of Lessons from the Field builds on insights from the earlier volumes illustrating the benefits of using NSSE results. Specifically, the highlighted institutional examples predominately feature the use of NSSE's updated measures and redesigned reports introduced with the survey's 14th administration in 2013. After more than three years of collaborative analysis, evidence-based item refinement, pilot testing, and student interviews, NSSE was revised to incorporate content enhancements and customization options that sustain the survey's relevance and value to participating institutions. The 25 institutional accounts featured in this volume illustrate how institutions are using results from the updated NSSE in assessment and improvement activities and in a variety of efforts to address important campus needs and priorities. Indeed, enlisting campus constituencies in the use of assessment results is essential during a time of heightened demands for accountability and pressures to increase student persistence and completion, support diversity, and ensure high-quality learning for all students. Even more, improvement efforts at colleges and universities are more likely to succeed when they emerge from a shared understanding of the evidence and of the priorities for action.Item Lessons from the field-Volume 2: Moving from data to action(Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University School of Education, 2012) National Survey of Student EngagementIn this publication we highlight approaches different types of institutions have taken to improve the undergraduate experience. Because NSSE focuses on student behavior and effective educational practice, colleges and universities have found many productive ways to use survey results: accreditation self-studies, benchmarking, curricular reform, faculty and staff development, grant writing, institutional research, retention, and state system comparisons. The stories about data use illustrate various ways that assessment can be a worthwhile undertaking when meaningful data are generated and discussed with a wide campus audience, and results are used to inform efforts to improve educational effectiveness. Understanding how colleges and universities use results and achieve improvements in undergraduate education is important. to advancing systemic improvement in higher education. The examples in this volume provide ample inspiration for encouraging institutions to move from collecting data to taking action.Item Lessons from the field-Volume 1: Using NSSE to assess and improve undergraduate education(Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University School of Education, 2009) National Survey of Student EngagementAssessment is a worthwhile undertaking when meaningful data are generated, evidence-based improvement initiatives are thoroughly considered and discussed, and results are ultimately used to improve educational effectiveness. NSSE results are oriented toward such practical use. Each year, more campuses use their NSSE results in innovative ways to improve the undergraduate experience. In this publication we highlight the approaches different types of institutions have taken to move from data to action.