What are the adjustments for part-time students?
Because part-time students spend less time in classes, they are likely to report lower numbers for several items on the NSSE Survey (e.g., time spent preparing for class). For this reason, we use national full-time/part-time ratios to adjust part-time student scores to make them resemble those of full-time students when we create the benchmarks. This prevents schools with large populations of part-time students from being negatively impacted by this population. For details on this process and a list of the items affected by this adjustment, see benchmark adjustments. For more information about how the 2005 part-time adjustment process differs from that of previous years refer to Question 4h below.
