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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ790726 |
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- Principles for Assessing Student Engagement in the First Year of College Hayek, John Kuh, George College Freshmen Student Participation Evaluation Methods Student School Relationship Interaction Teacher Student Relationship Peer Relationship Educational Research Educational Quality Questionnaires Student Surveys Sampling Benchmarking While most institutions know how many of their faculty members have terminal degrees and the number of books in the library, too few have reliable information about the frequency with which first-year students discuss ideas with faculty members outside class, how much time they spend on academic activities, or how often they interact with students who are different from themselves. These and other educationally purposeful activities are important because they contribute to a variety of desirable outcomes of college. Indeed, this is one of the unequivocal conclusions from the last half century of research on the impact of college on students: what matters more to success in the first year is what students actually do, not what institutions have in terms of resources, such as facilities and faculty credentials. In this article, the authors offer five principles to guide assessment efforts that promise to yield a deeper, more meaningful understanding of what students and institutions do that contributes to a high-quality first-year experience. Although the examples are drawn from the use of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), the principles apply to the use of other data sources, such as the College Student Experiences Questionnaire, the Your First College Year survey, and locally administered surveys.