Does U.S. News collect important data on student engagement and programs that enhance learning?
U.S. News does publish student response data from the National Survey of Student Engagement. NSSE asks freshmen and seniors at participating schools to answer questions about their educational experiences—their classroom participation, interaction with faculty, and time spent on various enriching activities, for example. The goal is to help schools see how engaged their students are in activities that lead to learning. Since the NSSE project was launched in 1999 by George Kuh at Indiana University (with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts and sponsorship by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), about 1,300 four-year schools have turned in answers to the 89-question survey. While most schools have not made the results available to the public, many were happy to provide U.S. News with seniors’ responses to a few survey questions. The percentages we show for these answers may not add to 100 because of rounding. In spring and summer 2009, U.S. News asked 724 colleg
U.S. News does publish student response data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). NSSE asks freshmen and seniors at participating schools to answer questions about their educational experiences-their classroom participation, interaction with faculty and time spent on various enriching activities, for example. The goal is to help schools see how engaged their students are in activities that lead to learning. Since the NSSE project was launched in 1999 by George Kuh at Indiana University (with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts and sponsorship by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), about 1,100 four-year schools have turned in answers to the 89-question survey. While most schools have not made the results available to the public, many were happy to provide U.S. News with seniors’ responses to a few survey questions. The percentages we show for these answers may not add up to 100 because of rounding. In 2008, U.S. News asked 583 schools that pa
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