Getting to use: What stimulates and impedes use of student engagement results?

Abstract

The ultimate goal of assessment projects, including the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), is not to gather data. It's to catalyze improvement in undergraduate education. Yet, moving from data to campus action is challenging. This session addresses the challenges of data use, blending expert panelist insights with focused audience discussion about what stimulates and impedes action. With the updated NSSE in mind, panelists and the audience consider broad topics about using evidence, including sharing results, anticipating evidence use, striving for perfect data, involving students, and planning for action, and also discuss what promotes effective data use.