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National Survey of Student Engagement, 2014
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Learner Engagement, National Surveys, College Seniors
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Agassi, Joseph; Swartz, Ronald – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
This dialogue centers on the following questions: (1) How can schools help a society select or identify new elites who are hopefully as good as and perhaps even better than those individuals who belong to the existing elite system?, and (2) How can we create learning situations that provide the most general learner with a broad basic education?…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Democracy, Schools, Educational Change
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Aiken, Leona S.; West, Stephen G.; Millsap, Roger E. – American Psychologist, 2008
In a survey of all PhD programs in psychology in the United States and Canada, the authors documented the quantitative methodology curriculum (statistics, measurement, and research design) to examine the extent to which innovations in quantitative methodology have diffused into the training of PhDs in psychology. In all, 201 psychology PhD…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Research Design, Human Capital, Foreign Countries