The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Freshman Survey
is designed to provide comprehensive information on incoming first-year students. The CIRP Freshman Survey examines readiness for college, how students choose colleges, student values and beliefs about diversity and civic engagement, and student expectations.
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a national effort that provides colleges and universities with information about their students’ performance on tasks that require them to think critically, reason analytically, solve realistic problems, and write clearly. The CLA examines how well a sample of freshmen and seniors do on nationally administered tests.
The first report provides initial results for our freshman sample that tested in fall 2005 and our senior sample that tested in spring 2006. The second report provides re-test results for our fall 2005 freshmen who were re-tested in spring 2007 as rising juniors. These students will be re-tested again as seniors in the spring 2009.
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) obtains, information about student participation in programs and activities that an institution provides for their learning and personal development. The results provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college. Survey items on The National Survey of Student Engagement represent empirically confirmed "good practices" in undergraduate education. That is, they reflect behaviors by students and institutions that are associated with desired outcomes of college.
