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NSSE. National Survey of Student Engagement Exchange item since 2000 Caretaker: Colorado AAUDE, College Station, February 2009 Lou McClelland. Website. http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsse-aaude/index.htm AAUDE members -> exchange items -> students -> NSSE -> link to site
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NSSE National Survey of Student Engagement Exchange item since 2000 Caretaker: Colorado AAUDE, College Station, February 2009 Lou McClelland
Website • http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsse-aaude/index.htm • AAUDE members -> exchange items -> students -> NSSE -> link to site • Link to private portion with AAUDE-NSSE shared data • Passwords available only to schools sharing data within last 5 years
Process • 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
Process - 2 • NSSE in touch with Lou, Lou with schools • Lou asks all AAU’s for multi-year data sharing permission • 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/nsse-aaude/Partic.xls
Process - 3 • NSSE sends to Colorado, in ~August • 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
Participation ’05 – ’09 • All public AAU’s in the US except UC • All sharing data except Penn State • Privates • Sharing: Case, Syracuse, Tulane • Not sharing: CMU, Emory, Rice • 2008 – 19,200 shared responses from 13 schools, plus 1500 responses from targeted samples
Response rates • 15-25% for some; 40-50% for others; even differences by year within school • http://www.colorado.edu/pba/surveys/nsse-aaude/ResponseRates.xls (public) • Solicited comment, tips for high rates, 12/08 – Zero response
Helps for users • Codebooks for all years • Multi-year dataset aligns over years • Extensive user guide • Including tips on cross-school analyses • SAS formats • Excel of basic stats • Calculations for VSA listings (new ’08) - see
L:\IR\survey\NSSE\AAUDE\All\Analysis\VSAItem_var\VSA_ItemVar.pptL:\IR\survey\NSSE\AAUDE\All\Analysis\VSAItem_var\VSA_ItemVar.ppt
2009 • 16 schools including 3 privates • 13 are using AAUDE questions • UNC using NSSE writing consortium questions • (http://comppile.org/wpa+nsse/test/index.htm) • Pilot: CU-Boulder split samples for both AAUDE and writing-consortium questions
Further analyses, use • Need reports! Send to Lou • By discipline • Students answer Q(s) re major • Variable Q’s over years • Need map of NSSE codes to CIPs -- Volunteers?