The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) was administered at Siena Heights University since 2010 in a two-year cycle. The survey was designed to collect information from first year and senior students about their participation in activities and programs that promote their learning and personal development. NSSE results provide information to faculty and staff in many ways: student learning outcome assessment, grant writing, curriculum and co-curriculum program development, benchmarking, retention, etc.
Questionnaires
The NSSE survey questionnaires include 37 questions. Each question includes self-rated items that students report their behaviors and educational activities during the current school year.
Results
Survey Snapshot
The snapshot report is a concise collection of key findings from SHU’s NSSE survey and compare with a benchmark group. SHU’s peer benchmark group includes 44 Catholic colleges and universities participated in NSSE survey.
Engagement Indicators
To represent the multiple dimensions of student engagement, NSSE reports on 10 Engagement Indicators calculated from 47 core NSSE items. The indicators are grouped within four themes. Each EI is expressed on a 60-point scale (Never = 0; Sometimes = 20; Often = 40; Very often = 60), then averaged together to compute student-level scores.
- Academic Challenge
- Higher-Order Learning
- Reflective & Integrative Learning
- Learning Strategies
- Qualitative Reasoning
- Learning with Peers
- Collaborative Learning
- Discussions with Diverse Others
- Experiences with Faculty
- Student-Faculty Interaction
- Effective Teaching Practices
- Campus Environment
- Quality of Interactions
- Supportive environment
Details of SHU’s student responses to engagement indicators in the most recent surveys are under the links:
High-Impact Practices
NSSE produces a separate report on High-Impact Practices (HIPs) based on survey questions. High-Impact practices represent enriching educational experiences that can be life-changing. They typically demand considerable time and effort, facilitate learning outside classroom, require meaningful interactions with faculty and other students, encourage collaboration with diverse others, and provide frequent and substantive feedback.
Participation in HIPs is reported as the percentage of students who responded “Done or in progress” for each HIP.
Topical Report
In a 2021 NSSE survey, SHU participated in a topical module on Inclusiveness and Engagement with Diversity. This module examines environments, processes, and activities that reflect the engagement and validation of cultural diversity and promote greater understanding of societal differences. Questions explore students’ exposure to inclusive teaching practices and intercultural learning: perceptions of institutional values and commitment regarding diversity; and participation in diversity-related programming and coursework.
Details of the report are under the link:
NSSE 2021 Topical Module Report
Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)
Siena Heights University participated in FSSE in 2014. The FSSE is a complementary survey to the NSSE and designed to collect information from faculty who teach at least one undergraduate course in the academic year that the survey was administered. The results provide information about faculty expectations for student engagement in educational practices that are empirically linked to student learning development.