Are students ready for college? What student engagement data say

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 664-669

  Mccarthy, Martha ^a   Kuh, George D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33744807741     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170608700909     Document Type: Review

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14. See Getting Students Ready for College: What Student Engagement Data Can Tell Us (Bloomington, Ind.: High School Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University, 2005). HSSSE was developed and initially field-tested with more than 7,200 students from four high schools in the spring of 2003. Following revisions, HSSSE was administered to more than 90,000 students in April 2004. After reviewing its psychometric properties and results from focus groups and interviews with high school teachers and students, the survey was again revised and administered to more than 80,000 students in 2005. Although the Midwest is disproportionately represented, overall the respondents mirror national gender and racial distributions for high school students. HSSSE respondents are also representative in terms of the national percentage of students enrolled in schools of different sizes and socioeconomic levels and located in various types of school districts. HSSSE is the largest national database on high school student engagement.
15. NSSE has been administered to more than 900,000 students at almost 1,000 four-year colleges and universities since 2000, and CCSSE has been administered to more than 320,000 students in 404 community colleges since 2002.
16. Wirt et al., Getting Students Ready for College: What Student Engagement Data Can Tell Us, op. cit.
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