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Institutional Strategy and Analysis

2020 National Survey of Student Engagement

Pocket Guide to Choosing a College: NSSE 2020 Answers from NC State Students PDF Document
Results from NSSE can provide prospective students with insights into how they might learn and develop at a given college. To help in the college exploration process, NSSE developed A Pocket Guide to Choosing a College to give students and their families key questions to ask during campus visits.

Reports

(All results are presented separately for first-year students and seniors)  

  • NC State Snapshot Report PDF Document
    A summary of results with comparisons to our Carnegie classification
    peer group, including Engagement Indicators; High-Impact Practices;
    and highest and lowest rated individual items.  Also includes information
    on survey administration.
  • Engagement Indicators PDF Document
    (Academic Challenge, Learning with Peers, Experience with Faculty,
    Supportive Campus Environment)
    NC State responses versus each of our three comparison groups, including: average ratings for overall themes and sub-themes;
    sub-theme score distributions; and detailed statistics for all sub-themes.
  • High-Impact Practices PDF Document
    NC State responses verses each of our three comparison groups;
    NC State responses by student demographic characteristics.
  • Frequencies and Statistical Comparisons PDF Document
    NC State responses to all survey items verses those from each of
    our three comparison groups [counts; percents; averages with
    statistical comparisons, standard error, effect sizes, etc.]
  • Trends PDF Document
    A comparison of NC State results for Engagement Indicators, High-Impact practices, and key academic challenge items from the 2014, 2017, and 2020 surveys. [counts; percents; averages with statistical comparisons, standard error, effect sizes, etc.]
  • Topical Module: Development of Transferable Skills PDF Document
    This optional module examines activities that develop useful and transferable skills for the workplace (such as verbal and written fluency and analytic inquiry). 
    NC State responses to all survey items verses those from a comparison group of other similar institutions participating in the module [counts; percents; averages with
    statistical comparisons, standard error, effect sizes, etc.]
  • Topical Module: Experiences with Information Literacy PDF Document
    This optional module asks students about their use of information and how much their instructors emphasized the proper use of information sources.
    NC State responses to all survey items verses those from a comparison group of other similar institutions participating in the module [counts; percents; averages with
    statistical comparisons, standard error, effect sizes, etc.]

Supporting Documents