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A Profile of OU 1 st Year Students. Reuben Ternes Research Associate, OIRA OGL Session April 30, 2012. 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 1st Year Students Reuben Ternes Research Associate, OIRA OGL Session April 30, 2012
Presentation Overview • Who Are OU FTIACs? • Demographical Data • Values and Expectations • Academic Success • College Engagement
Institutional Data • Various pieces of information that our office (OIRA) collects on OU’s student body.
FTIAC Ethnicity About half of OU’s non-white ethnicities are African American students
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.
Important reasons in deciding to go to college Percentage of Students Answering ‘Very Important
Academic success • Graduation Rates • Retention Rates • Probation Rates • Info compiled by OIRA
% of FTIACs with a GPA < 2.0 after their first semester (Probation)
Six-Year Graduation Rates by 1st-term credits 14+ Credits 12 or 13 Credits
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.
“the environment emphasizes spending significant amounts of time on academic work” Very Much (4) Some (2)
Time Spent preparing for class 11-15 Hours Per Week (4.0) 6-10 Hours Per Week (3.0)
Quality of Relationships with other students Friendly & Supportive Unfriendly & unsupportive