{"id":515,"date":"2013-03-11T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=515"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T14:22:39","slug":"providing-guidance-to-students-on-how-to-answer-the-questions-in-the-nss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/03\/11\/providing-guidance-to-students-on-how-to-answer-the-questions-in-the-nss\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing guidance (or not!) to students on how to answer the questions in the NSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The NSS questionnaire is relatively easy to understand for a final year undergraduate and\u00a0hopefully self-explanatory.\u00a0 However, there will inevitably be some students with queries about the survey.<\/p>\n<p>A range of guidance is supplied to students by Ipsos MORI via the NSS website.\u00a0 These are included in the &#8216;Frequently Asked Questions&#8217; (FAQs), information about the survey and the &#8216;Privacy Statement&#8217;. Should students have any specific queries relating to the survey, they should contact Ipsos MORI through\u00a0their dedicated helpline at: <a href=\"mailto:thestudentsurvey@ipsos.com\">thestudentsurvey@ipsos.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing is clear though: institutions should not be giving instructions to students on how to complete the survey. Attempts to do so could be interpreted as an effort to &#8216;influence&#8217; the students&#8217; understanding of the survey\/questions.\u00a0 Sanctions against miscreant institutions can be <a title=\"THE article on NSS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/news\/students-urged-to-inflate-national-survey-marks-to-improve-job-options\/401883.article\" target=\"_blank\">public <\/a>and severe: HEFCE\u00a0removed one University department\u00a0from the League Tables as its sanction for having fraudulently manipulated the National Student Survey results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The NSS questionnaire is relatively easy to understand for a final year undergraduate and\u00a0hopefully self-explanatory.\u00a0 However, there will inevitably be some students with queries about the survey. A range of guidance is supplied to students by Ipsos MORI via the NSS website.\u00a0 These are included in the &#8216;Frequently Asked Questions&#8217; (FAQs), information about the<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/03\/11\/providing-guidance-to-students-on-how-to-answer-the-questions-in-the-nss\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}