{"id":421,"date":"2013-02-20T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=421"},"modified":"2013-02-20T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:35:40","slug":"tips-for-nsse-survey-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/02\/20\/tips-for-nsse-survey-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for NSS(E) Survey Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NSSE\"<\/a>The National Survey of Student Engagement<\/a> (NSSE) is the North American equivalent of the National Student Survey<\/a> (NSS). Useful NSSE resources which might be adapted for NSS purposes include Tips for Your NSSE Survey Administration<\/a>; indeed,\u00a0they might end up looking like this for the NSS:<\/p>\n

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  1. know your students<\/b>: in order to\u00a0encourage student participation you must know your students. Thus, having a plan of action to address the interests of all students, or indeed targetted groups of students,\u00a0could positively influence your response rates. In fact,\u00a0it might also be useful to drill down into previous data sets to see when students typically\u00a0respond to the survey and\/or in response to which actions\/communications from staff and\/or student representatives, Ipsos MORI, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. involve your School\/Departmental\u00a0staff (as well as the University’s structures and support):\u00a0<\/b>institutions such as ours will\u00a0cite the direct\u00a0involvement\u00a0of School\/Departmental staff (e.g.\u00a0Dean\/Head, Programme Directors, Personal Tutors,\u00a0Operations Managers, academic and\/or academic-related staff advocating completion of the NSS survey, etc.)\u00a0as key features of their promotional efforts. That being said,\u00a0staff should also be encouraged to mention the NSS throughout\u00a0the student lifecycle (from admissions and induction\/returners events all the way through to graduation and beyond), but particularly to finalists. Structures such as\u00a0Staff-Student Liaison Committee are vital, and not just when you are asking students to complete the survey, but also when evaluating the previous sets of data and reporting back on them. Ultimately, having\u00a0staff members outline the value placed on the NSS by this institution will\u00a0help our students to see that the NSS is a very\u00a0important instrument worth completing.<\/li>\n
  3. incorporate technology: <\/b>using technology effectively can positively influence response rates, so colleagues should already be collaborating closely with institutional technology staff (e.g. the E-learning Officers in the\u00a0E-learning Team<\/a>)\u00a0as a part of\u00a0promotional efforts. Indeed, institutions across the country, as well as various parts of this University,\u00a0are already\u00a0utilising\u00a0creative and cost effective ways to incorporate technology into their NSS efforts, including\u00a0using entry to the NSS survey as the background screen on computer lab desktops, readily accessible links through Learn<\/a> and the Student Portal – my.Lboro<\/a>, as part of degree programme\u00a0management (e.g. PowerPoint slides at the beginning of\u00a0appropriate Final Year lectures), electronic newsletters and bulletin boards such as this Teaching and Learning Blog<\/a>,\u00a0etc.<\/li>\n
  4. offer incentives: <\/b>compared to the NSSE, this is even more tricky for the NSS, though research does suggest the effectiveness of incentives when it comes\u00a0to encouraging\u00a0student populations to take part. When does\u00a0offering a\u00a0small token for\u00a0participation become something more negative and open to misinterpretation? Suggestions regarding this (i.e. incentives which work but which are not open to misinterpretation)\u00a0would be very welcome!<\/li>\n
  5. include students and student representatives: <\/b>it may seem obvious, but it is interesting that this is number five in the original NSSE\u00a0list rather than first. Clearly, involving students in promotional efforts is essential, which is why it is\u00a0recommended that we work in conjunction with Loughborough Students’ Union <\/a>(LSU) and\u00a0students in our Schools\/Departments and on our Programmes\u00a0– i.e. ranging from the\u00a0LSU\u00a0executive to programme presidents to representatives for individual programme cohorts. Thus,\u00a0we should be\u00a0collaborating with our students and their representatives\u00a0in our promotional efforts, i.e. through a variety of processes which can involve\u00a0them in\u00a0marketing,\u00a0advertising, their various media (e.g. Label<\/a>), etc., so that\u00a0ultimately as many as finalists as possible\u00a0see the importance of undertaking the NSS survey.<\/li>\n
  6. use social media: <\/b>using social media\u00a0to promote the NSS could prove to be invaluable, it is just hard to determine where to draw the line regarding when and where staff might use it when interacting with students. An overwhelming majority of our students are using social networking sites on a regular basis, so the question for us is whether we and\/or LSU\u00a0should be using\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0Twitter, etc.,\u00a0to update students throughout the entire NSS\u00a0process, i.e. as part of a promotion, completion, evaluation, and action cycle.<\/li>\n
  7. disseminate results widely to stimulate action: <\/b>which brings us to the last point. Although there are limits to the ways in which the NSS\u00a0quantitative and qualitative data can be used (e.g. promotional advertising), we should be using the findings\u00a0to inform\u00a0institutional and School\/Departmental\u00a0priorities. This blog is just one of example of a creative way to share effective practice on this issue, but more contributions\u00a0regarding this whole area would be\u00a0very welcome!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    source<\/b>: adapted from “Tips for Your NSSE Survey Administration”, National Survey of Student Engagement, http:\/\/nsse.iub.edu\/pdf\/Tips%20for%20Your%20NSSE%20Survey%20Administration.pdf<\/a>\u00a0[20 February 2012]. Further information regarding the NSSE<\/a> is readily available online, as are more details regarding the NSS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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