Academic Challenge: Seniors
Challenging intellectual and creative work is central to student learning and collegiate quality. Colleges and universities promote student learning by challenging and supporting them to engage in various forms of deep learning. Four Engagement Indicators are part of this theme: Higher-Order Learning, Reflective & Integrative Learning, Learning Strategies, and Quantitative Reasoning. Below are three views of your results alongside those of your comparison groups.
Mean Comparisons
| NSSEville State | Your seniors compared with | ||||||||||||
| Plains Public | Research Univ Public | NSSE 2021 & 2022 | |||||||||||
| Engagement Indicator | Mean | Mean | Effect | Mean | Effect size | Mean | Effect size |
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| Higher-Order Learning | 38.1 | 40.1 | *** | -.14 | 39.6 | ** | -.10 | 40.5 | *** | -.17 | |||
| Reflective & Integrative Learning | 37.8 | 38.3 | -.04 | 37.4 | .02 | 38.6 | * | -.07 | |||||
| Learning Strategies | 36.2 | 38.7 | *** | -.17 | 38.2 | *** | -.14 | 39.2 | *** | -.21 | |||
| Quantitative Reasoning | 31.7 | 30.0 | ** | .10 | 30.9 | .05 | 30.6 | * | .06 | ||||
| Notes: Due to nonstandard sampling or response issues, all results are unweighted; Effect size: Mean difference divided by pooled standard deviation; Symbols on the Overview page are based on effect size and p before rounding; *p<.05, **p<.01, ***p<.001 (2-tailed). | |||||||||||||
Score Distributions
Notes: Each box-and-whiskers chart plots the 5th (bottom of lower bar), 25th (bottom of box), 50th (middle line), 75th (top of box), and 95th (top of upper bar) percentile scores. The dot represents the mean score.
Performance on Indicator Items
The table below displays how your students responded to each EI item, and the difference, in percentage points, between your students and those of your comparison group. Blue bars indicate how much higher your institution's percentage is from that of the comparison group. Purple bars indicate how much lower your institution's percentage is from that of the comparison group.
| Percentage point differencea between your seniors and | ||||||||||||
| Higher-Order Learning | NSSEville State | Plains Public | Research Univ Public | NSSE 2021 & 2022 | ||||||||
| Percentage responding "Very much" or "Quite a bit" about how much coursework emphasized... | % | |||||||||||
| 4b. | Applying facts, theories, or methods to practical problems or new situations | 77 | +0 | +1 | +0 | |||||||
| 4c. | Analyzing an idea, experience, or line of reasoning in depth by examining its parts | 72 | -2 | -2 | -3 | |||||||
| 4d. | Evaluating a point of view, decision, or information source | 63 | -8 | -4 | -8 | |||||||
| 4e. | Forming a new idea or understanding from various pieces of information | 68 | -4 | -2 | -5 | |||||||
| Reflective & Integrative Learning | ||||||||||||
| Percentage of students who responded that they "Very often" or "Often"... | ||||||||||||
| 2a. | Combined ideas from different courses when completing assignments | 73 | +5 | +8 | +7 | |||||||
| 2b. | Connected your learning to societal problems or issues | 58 | -3 | +1 | -3 | |||||||
| 2c. | Included diverse perspectives in course discussions or assignments | 50 | -3 | -0 | -4 | |||||||
| 2d. | Examined the strengths and weaknesses of your own views on a topic or issue | 62 | -4 | -1 | -4 | |||||||
| 2e. | Tried to better understand someone else's views by imagining how an issue looks from his or her perspective | 70 | -3 | -1 | -3 | |||||||
| 2f. | Learned something that changed the way you understand an issue or concept | 70 | +1 | +1 | -0 | |||||||
| 2g. | Connected ideas from your courses to your prior experiences and knowledge | 83 | -1 | +2 | +0 | |||||||
| Learning Strategies | ||||||||||||
| Percentage of students who responded that they "Very often" or "Often"... | ||||||||||||
| 9a. | Identified key information from reading assignments | 68 | -7 | -5 | -8 | |||||||
| 9b. | Reviewed your notes after class | 59 | -3 | -3 | -5 | |||||||
| 9c. | Summarized what you learned in class or from course materials | 62 | -3 | -2 | -5 | |||||||
| Quantitative Reasoning | ||||||||||||
| Percentage of students who responded that they "Very often" or "Often"... | ||||||||||||
| 6a. | Reached conclusions based on your own analysis of numerical information (numbers, graphs, statistics, etc.) | 57 | +3 | -1 | +1 | |||||||
| 6b. | Used numerical information to examine a real-world problem or issue | 50 | +4 | +2 | +2 | |||||||
| 6c. | Evaluated what others have concluded from numerical information | 52 | +7 | +3 | +5 | |||||||
| Notes: Refer to your Frequencies and Statistical Comparisons report for full distributions and significance tests. Item numbering corresponds to the survey facsimile. | ||||||||||||
| a. | Percentage point difference = Institution percentage – Comparison group percentage. Because results are rounded to whole numbers, differences of less than 1 point may or may not display a bar. Small, but nonzero differences may be represented as +0 or -0. | |||||||||||
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