1 / 32

Results of the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey: Spotlight on Student Adjustment & Satisfaction

Results of the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey: Spotlight on Student Adjustment & Satisfaction. Victor Sáenz & De’Sha Wolf Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA Sunday, February 26, 2006 25 th Annual Conference on the First Year Experience Atlanta, GA. Presentation Goals.

kane
Download Presentation

Results of the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey: Spotlight on Student Adjustment & Satisfaction

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Results of the 2005 Your First College Year (YFCY) Survey: Spotlight on Student Adjustment & Satisfaction Victor Sáenz & De’Sha Wolf Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA Sunday, February 26, 2006 25th Annual Conference on the First Year Experience Atlanta, GA

  2. Presentation Goals • Overview of CIRP Freshman Survey • Introduce the YFCY survey as a longitudinal follow-up to the CIRP Freshman Survey • Share descriptive findings from the 2005 YFCY national aggregate data, with a focus on college adjustment and satisfaction • Discuss how institutions can utilize HERI longitudinal data to assess various aspects of the first-year experience

  3. Higher Education Research Institute CIRP Cooperative Institutional Research Program Funded Research Freshman Survey YFCY CSS • Atlantic Philanthropies • Templeton Foundation • National Institutes • of Health Faculty Survey

  4. CIRP Freshman Survey • Largest and longest-running national study of American college students…2006 is 40th Anniversary • Initiated in 1966 at the American Council on Education; Housed at HERI (UCLA) since 1973 • Administered annually to over 400,000 incoming freshmen at more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide • Since 1966: 12 million students; 1,800 institutions

  5. CIRPFreshman Survey Items • Demographic Characteristics • Expectations for College • High School Experiences • Degree Aspirations & Career Plans • College Finances • Attitudes, Values, & Life Goals • Reasons for Attending College • FRESHMAN TRENDS (1966 – present)

  6. CIRP Trends: Entering College Freshmen

  7. CIRP Trends: Entering College Freshmen

  8. CIRP Trends: Entering College Freshmen

  9. CIRP Trends: Entering College Freshmen

  10. CIRP Trends: Entering College Freshmen Men Women

  11. CIRP Freshman Trends • Socio-historical context • Consistent trends over time • Changing student profile over the last 40 years (e.g, values, reasons for going to college, etc.) • What about students’ first year of college experiences?

  12. Your First College Year (YFCY) • Developed in 2000 in conjunction with the Policy Center on the First Year of College • Designed as a follow-up to the CIRP Freshman Survey; may also be used as a stand-alone instrument • Over 1/3 of the YFCY survey items directly post-test items on the CIRP Freshman Survey • In 2005, surveyed over 40,000 students at 200+ institutions nationwide

  13. YFCY Major Themes • Academic and social adjustment • Sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction • Academic, residential, and employment experiences • Plans for the next academic year • Patterns of behavior • Life goals • Self-concept and feelings of personal success

  14. Institutions in 2005 YFCY* *Data are unweighted.

  15. Students in 2005 YFCY* *Data are unweighted.

  16. Results: 2005 YFCY

  17. Results: 2005 YFCY

  18. CIRP vs. YFCY(longitudinal results) • How do students change during the first year of college?

  19. CIRP, YFCY, & the I-E-O Model Environments YFCY (e.g., place of residence during the first year, interactions with peers and faculty, curricular and co-curricular experiences) Inputs CIRP Freshman Survey (e.g., academic performance in high school, financial concerns prior to college entry, expectations for college, degree aspirations, self-concept in high school) Outcomes YFCY (e.g., satisfaction with college, social/emotional adjustment, sense of belonging)

  20. Longitudinal Results: 2004 CIRP & 2005 YFCY

  21. Longitudinal Results: 2004 CIRP & 2005 YFCY

  22. YFCY (by racial group): Sense of Community on Campus

  23. YFCY (by racial group):Overall Satisfaction w/College Experience

  24. YFCY Factor: Satisfaction with College (alpha=.86)

  25. YFCY Factor: Poor Social/Emotional Adjustment (alpha=.77)

  26. YFCY Factor: Academic Success Habits (alpha=.77)

  27. YFCY Factor: Academic Disengagement (alpha=.69)

  28. YFCY Factors:Mean Comparisons by Race All means reported are significant at the p<.01 level; In comparison to White students, *Mean difference is significant at p<.05; **Mean difference is significant at p<.01

  29. YFCY Factors: Mean Comparisons Institutional Control

  30. Using YFCY Data to Enhance Campus Assessment Efforts: Methodologies • Descriptive analyses with your campus data • Comparative analyses • Measures of association • Longitudinal analyses • Factor analyses • Multivariate analyses

  31. Using YFCY Data to Enhance Campus Assessment Efforts: Purposes • Self-study reports • Retention studies • Recruitment issues • Examining group differences among students • Strategic planning • Presentations to various constituents • Creation of a student information system • Measuring student development & institutional impact

  32. For More Information: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html (310) 825-1925 http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/cirp.htm http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/yfcy/ Victor Saenz vsaenz@ucla.edu De’Sha Wolf dwolf@ucla.edu

More Related