Caroline Noyes, Assistant Director of Assessment; Jonathan Gordon, Director of Assessment; and Joe Ludlum, Coordinator of Survey Research, presented a paper at the Association for Institutional Research’s 49th Annual Forum on Tuesday, June 2, 2009.
This research paper, entitled Engagement Half-Life: The Impact of Incoming Student Characteristics throughout the College Career, focuses on the relationship between incoming student characteristics as measured by the CIRP and student engagement during the freshman and senior years as measured by the NSSE benchmarks.
A cross-sectional design examined three years of paired CIRP and NSSE responses of 855 freshmen and 741 seniors. The findings indicate that civic participation activities in high school and self-ratings of behaviors indicative of emotional intelligence have an effect on engagement levels during both the freshman and senior years of college.
Copies of the paper, slide presentation, and handouts are attached.
Attached Files:
- The Student Element in Engagement
Presentation Slides
- Engagement Half-Life Handout
Presentation Handout
- Engagement Half-Life: The Impact of Incoming Student Characteristics throughout the College Career
Presentation Paper