{"id":3958,"date":"2023-10-02T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T20:31:08","slug":"student-learning-at-the-first-year-and-senior-level-2023-national-survey-of-student-engagement-nsse-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucore.wsu.edu\/assessment\/2023\/10\/02\/student-learning-at-the-first-year-and-senior-level-2023-national-survey-of-student-engagement-nsse-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Learning at the First-year and Senior Level: 2023 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As reported in the\u00a0<a href=\"\/assessment\/documents\/2023\/10\/2023-nsse-results.pdf\" data-type=\"document\">2023 National Survey of Student Engagement Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF)<\/a>, results from the 2023 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) indicate that\u00a0<strong>most WSU\u00a0<u>seniors<\/u>\u00a0(93%) have considerable confidence in their ability to complete tasks requiring\u00a0<em>critical thinking and analysis of arguments and information<\/em><\/strong>. In addition to\u00a0<strong><em>Critical and Creative Thinking<\/em><\/strong>, results from the 2023 NSSE also provided indirect evidence of student learning on <strong><em>Written Communication, Non-Written Communication, Quantitative Reasoning<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><em>Diversity<\/em><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><em>Integrative Learning<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the first-year and senior levels for UCORE assessment\u2014see the\u00a0<a href=\"\/assessment\/documents\/2023\/10\/2023-nsse-results.pdf\" data-type=\"document\">2023 NSSE Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF)<\/a>\u00a0for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nsse.indiana.edu\/\">NSSE<\/a>&nbsp;survey annually collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about first-year and senior student participation in activities and programs that promote their learning and personal development.&nbsp;WSU\u2019s UCORE curriculum is bookended by a required first-year course [ROOT] and a senior capstone experience [CAPS], which aligns particularly well with NSSE. <em>Note: NSSE is an externally developed survey administered by the University of Indiana (Bloomington). As such, questions on the NSSE survey are not specifically tailored to WSU and\/or UCORE.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNSSE results help faculty and leadership understand our students\u2019 perceptions of the undergraduate experience at WSU,\u201d said UCORE Director Ashley Boyd.&nbsp;\u201cFor the UCORE general education program, we examine NSSE results in combination with other UCORE assessments of first-year students and seniors as we consider the UCORE curriculum and design faculty development initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At WSU, NSSE is offered to all first-year and senior students on all WSU campuses every other spring. In 2023, 2,130 seniors and 1,361 first-year students responded to the survey at WSU. The WSU response rate was 29% for seniors and 33% for first-year students, compared to the average national response rate of 19% for participating institutions with undergraduate enrollments of 10,000 or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ace.wsu.edu\/\">Office of Assessment for Curricular Effectiveness (ACE)<\/a>, in collaboration with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ir.wsu.edu\/\">Office of Institutional Research (IR)<\/a>, coordinates the administration of NSSE at WSU. For additional information, see UCORE\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"\/assessment\/key-assessments\/nsse\/\">National Survey of Student Engagement Key Assessment<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the\u00a02023 National Survey of Student Engagement Summary of Key Evidence for UCORE (PDF), results from the 2023 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) indicate that\u00a0most WSU\u00a0seniors\u00a0(93%) have considerable confidence in their ability to complete tasks requiring\u00a0critical thinking and analysis of arguments and information. 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