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Student Engagement at Towson: NSSE 2005

Student Engagement at Towson: NSSE 2005. Telling and Selling the Story Kathryn Doherty, Ed.D. January 11, 2006. Overview. What is college student engagement? What is NSSE? How can NSSE help us Tell the Story about Towson? How can NSSE help us Sell the Story about Towson?.

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Student Engagement at Towson: NSSE 2005

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  1. Student Engagement at Towson: NSSE 2005 Telling and Selling the Story Kathryn Doherty, Ed.D. January 11, 2006

  2. Overview • What is college student engagement? • What is NSSE? • How can NSSE help us Tell the Story about Towson? • How can NSSE help us Sell the Story about Towson?

  3. What Really Matters in College Student Engagement • Impact of college is largely determined by individual effort. • Students are not passive recipients of institutional efforts to “educate” or “change” them. • Important to focus on ways in which an institution can shape its academic, interpersonal, and extracurricular offerings to encourage student engagement. Pascarella & Terenzini. (2005). How college affects students: A third decade of research

  4. NSSE Project Scope • Almost 1000 different colleges and universities • 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada • Data from more than 880,000students • Institutions include Historically Black Colleges & Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Tribal Colleges, and all female and all male colleges

  5. NSSE 2005 Institutionsby Carnegie Classification

  6. What does NSSE tell us? • Identifies institutional strengths and areas for improvement • Allows benchmarking against peers and national results • Compares first-year and senior student experiences • Links information about student engagement to the teaching-learning environment

  7. NSEE 2005 at Towson • 543 TU first-year students (19% of first year students) • 702 senior students (17% of seniors) • 808 started here and 439 transferred in • 120 peer institutions • 529 colleges and universities

  8. Telling the Story:NSSESummary Results

  9. Students say their educational experience at Towson is good or excellent First-Year Seniors More than86%comparable to national results More than80%while nationally 88%

  10. Most Towson students would probably or definitely come here again First-Year Seniors More than 82% comparable to national results More than 72%while nationally 82%

  11. Many Towson transfer students would probably or definitely come here again First-Year Transfer Senior Transfer More than 81% comparable to first years who started here More than 69%while 77% for seniors who started here

  12. What Are Our Students Majoring In?

  13. What Else Are Our Students Doing?

  14. Beyond Academics, What Does Towson Contribute?

  15. How Do Towson Students See Themselves?

  16. What NSSE Tells Us: First Year Students

  17. What do we know about our first- year students?

  18. How Committed are First Year Students: Would They Come Again?

  19. How Do First Year Students Evaluate Academic Advising?

  20. How Do First Year Students Evaluate Their Educational Experience?

  21. First-Year Perception of Academic Emphasis at Towson

  22. What NSSE Tells US: Senior Students

  23. What do we know about our senior students?

  24. How Committed are Seniors: Would They Come Again?

  25. How Do Seniors Evaluate Academic Advising at Towson?

  26. How Do Seniors Evaluate Their Entire Educational Experience?

  27. Seniors Increasingly Find Towson a Supportive Campus Environment

  28. Most seniors have learned a lot!

  29. More Than 50% of Seniors Are Involved In Community Service Or Volunteer Work First-Year Seniors More than26% but, nationally, 42% More than51% but, nationally, 64%

  30. But 60% of Seniors Do Not Participate in Any Co-Curricular Activities

  31. What NSSE Tells Us: Transfer Students

  32. What do we know about our transfer students?

  33. Transfer Students Less Certain about TU Experience

  34. And Transfer Students Somewhat Less Likely to Attend Again

  35. Transfer Students Working More, Commuting, and Providing Care

  36. And Finding It More Difficult to Pay for College and Make New Friends

  37. What NSSE Tells Us: By College

  38. Where Are Our Students?

  39. Where Are Our Transfer Students?

  40. Would Students Attend Again?

  41. How Do Students Evaluate Academic Advising at Towson?

  42. How Do Students Evaluate Their Overall Educational Experience

  43. Telling the Story: Meeting Middle States Standards

  44. NSEE and the Standards • Standard 12 – General Education • Standard 13 – Institutional Activities • Standard 14 – Student Learning Assessment

  45. 12. General Education: Towson Students Show Strong Computer Literacy Skills

  46. But Other Areas Need To Grow

  47. 13. Towson Students Above Mean In Experiential Learning

  48. But Other Areas Need To Grow

  49. 14. Student Learning: Towson Students Above Mean In Facts And Applications

  50. But Other Areas Need To Grow

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