Learning with Peers: Seniors
Collaborating with others in mastering difficult material and developing interpersonal and social competence prepare students to deal with complex, unscripted problems they will encounter during and after college. Two Engagement Indicators make up this theme: Collaborative Learning and Discussions with Diverse Others. Below are three views of your results alongside those of your comparison groups.
Mean Comparisons
| UMD | Your seniors compared with | ||||||||||||
| UMD Peers | UMD Competitors | NSSE Carnegie | |||||||||||
| Engagement Indicator | Mean | Mean | Effect | Mean | Effect size | Mean | Effect size |
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| Collaborative Learning | 34.8 | 33.3 | ** | .10 | 32.7 | *** | .15 | 32.2 | *** | .18 | |||
| Discussions with Diverse Others | 35.4 | 39.2 | *** | -.25 | 36.5 | -.08 | 37.8 | *** | -.15 | ||||
| Notes: Results weighted by institution-reported sex and enrollment status (and institution size for comparison groups); 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 | ||||||||||||
| Collaborative Learning | UMD | UMD Peers | UMD Competitors | NSSE Carnegie | ||||||||
| Percentage of students who responded that they "Very often" or "Often"... | % | |||||||||||
| 1e. | Asked another student to help you understand course material | 55 | +7 | +8 | +11 | |||||||
| 1f. | Explained course material to one or more students | 63 | +5 | +7 | +6 | |||||||
| 1g. | Prepared for exams by discussing or working through course material with other students | 45 | -1 | +2 | +4 | |||||||
| 1h. | Worked with other students on course projects or assignments | 77 | +10 | +9 | +12 | |||||||
| Discussions with Diverse Others | ||||||||||||
| Percentage of students who responded that they "Very often" or "Often" had discussions with... | ||||||||||||
| 8a. | People of a race or ethnicity other than your own | 49 | -20 | -6 | -16 | |||||||
| 8b. | People from an economic background other than your own | 63 | -9 | -2 | -5 | |||||||
| 8c. | People with religious beliefs other than your own | 61 | -7 | -0 | -2 | |||||||
| 8d. | People with political views other than your own | 59 | -6 | -3 | +0 | |||||||
| 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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