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A Profile of OU 1 st Year Students

A Profile of OU 1 st Year Students. Reuben Ternes Assessment Coordinator, OIRA OGL Session April 28, 2011. Presentation Overview. Who Are OU FTIACs? Demographical Data Values and Expectations Academic Success College Engagement. Institutional Data.

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A Profile of OU 1 st Year Students

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  1. A Profile of OU 1st Year Students Reuben Ternes Assessment Coordinator, OIRA OGL Session April 28, 2011

  2. Presentation Overview • Who Are OU FTIACs? • Demographical Data • Values and Expectations • Academic Success • College Engagement

  3. Institutional Data • Various pieces of information that our office (OIRA) collects on OU’s student body.

  4. Growth in FTIACs 2000 - 2010

  5. FTIAC Gender Ratios

  6. FTIAC Ethnicity

  7. FTIACs: Average ACT Score

  8. Undergraduate Age (All Students)

  9. Full Time/Part-Time Status (All Students)

  10. Values and Expectations • The CIRP survey • Cooperative Institutional Research Project conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles • We get an average of 70 to 80% response rate on this survey. • In general, we are more similar to national norms than we are dissimilar.

  11. Important reasons in deciding to go to college

  12. Important reasons to select ou

  13. Important life objectives

  14. Estimated Parental Income

  15. The importance of keeping up to date with politics

  16. Drank beer during high school year

  17. OU students’ political views

  18. Time spent on social networking sites (per week)

  19. Academic success • Graduation Rates • Retention Rates • Probation Rates • Info compiled by OIRA

  20. % of FTIAC with a GPA < 2.0 after their first semester (Probation)

  21. Retention to second year

  22. Six-Year Graduation Rates by 1st-term credits 14+ Credits 12 or 13 Credits

  23. College engagement National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE: pronounced ‘nessie’) • College student survey that assesses the extent to which students engage in educational practices associated with high levels of learning and development • Administered every two years. • OU has shown steady increases in NSSE results since 2005 • More data is available on OIRA’s website. • All data is for 1st year students unless otherwise noted.

  24. More than 15 hours per week working on campus

  25. “the environment emphasizes spending significant amounts of time on academic work” Very Much (4) Some (2)

  26. Time Spent preparing for class 11-15 Hours Per Week 6-10 Hours Per Week

  27. Quality of Relationships with other students Friendly & Supportive Unfriendly & unsupportive

  28. Questions and discussion ?

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