Atlan&c Monthly (July/August 2009)
“…influen&al college rankings like the one published by U.S. News & World Report measure mostly wealth and status…; they reveal next to nothing about what students learn.” “We need to shed more light on how well colleges are educa&ng their students – to help prospec&ve students make beJer decisions, and to exert pressure on the whole system to provide beJer value for money.”
Atlan&c Monthly (July/August 2009) “Reliable measures of the quality of undergraduate teaching already exist. The Na&onal Survey of Student Engagement gathers data on factors proven to correlate with learning” “The Collegiate Learning Assessment tests students’ cri&cal thinking and measures progress over a college career.”
NSSE Na&onal Survey of Student Engagement • 1,400 institutions since 1999 • 640 institutions and 350,000+ students in 2009 • 85 Questions • 5 Benchmarks
NSSE Indicators of Effec&ve Educa&onal Prac&ce 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Level of Academic Challenge (LAC) Ac&ve & Collabora&ve Learning (ACL) Student Faculty Interac&on (SFI) Enriching Educa&onal Experiences (EEE) Suppor&ve Campus Environment (SCE)
Wofford NSSE 2009 First Year
Senior
80 70 60 50
Wofford
40 Top 10% of NSSE
30 20
NSSE Na&onal Average
10 0 LAC Scale 0-100
ACL
SFI
EEE
SCE
LAC
ACL
SFI
EEE
SCE
Level of Academic Challenge 66 64 62 60 Wofford
58 56
Top 10% of NSSE
54 52
NSSE Na&onal Average
50 48 First Year Scale 0-100
Senior
Ac&ve and Collabora&ve Learning 70 60 50 Wofford
40 30
Top 10% of NSSE
20
NSSE Na&onal Average
10 0 First Year Scale 0-100
Senior
Student-‐Faculty Interac&on 70 60 50 Wofford
40 30
Top 10% of NSSE
20
NSSE Na&onal Average
10 0 First Year Scale 0-100
Senior
Enriching Educa&onal Experiences 60 50 40 Wofford
30 Top 10% of NSSE
20
NSSE Na&onal Average
10 0 First Year Scale 0-100
Senior
Suppor&ve Campus Environment 80 70 60 50
Wofford
40 Top 10% of NSSE
30 20
NSSE Na&onal Average
10 0 First Year Scale 0-100
Senior