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Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Using the example of responses from civil engineering students at a very highly ranked participating university, this guide demonstrates the importance of comparative data when using student questionnaire data for undergraduate academic program review. It also emphasizes the advantage of using factor structures for better questionnaire-based…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Student Surveys, Civil Engineering, Student Experience
Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This technical report summarizes the third independent factor analysis of the SERU/UCUES questionnaire responses of students with majors. The 2009 solution employed the same quantitative analysis used in the prior solutions--varimax orthogonal rotation to determine principal components followed by promax oblique rotation to identify…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Reliability, Questionnaires, Majors (Students)
Brint, Steven; Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg; Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project is a collaborative effort among academic scholars and institutional researchers devoted to collecting new data and providing policy-relevant analysis of exactly these questions. Its purpose is to study in depth the undergraduate experience and, at the same time, through systematic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Learner Engagement, Citizen Participation
Chatman, Steve – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2009
The census survey of undergraduates attending a major research university system presents an opportunity to measure both disciplinary and institutional differences in students' academic experience. Results from nearly 60,000 responses (38% response rate) from the 2006 administration found greater variance among majors within an institution than…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Feedback (Response), Science Education, Teaching Methods
Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2009
The assertion that there are a limited set of generalizable good educational practices (Chickering & Gamson, 1987) with a common model of preferred active student engagement in learning (Kuh, 2001) is appealing to those responsible for simply stated institutional outcomes and to the faculty who teach in fields that espouse the same practices…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Practices, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The University of California's census survey of undergraduates, UCUES [University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey], presents an opportunity to measure both disciplinary and institutional differences in students' academic experience. Results from nearly 60,000 responses (38% response rate) from the 2006 administration found greater…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Multivariate Analysis
Brint, Steve; Douglass, John Aubrey; Flacks, Richard; Thomson, Gregg; Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project is a collaborative effort of academic scholars, IR staff, and academic and administrative leaders at each of the UC (University of California) undergraduate campuses and at UCOP (University of California Office of the President). The objective is to develop new types of data and…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Student Experience, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity