National Survey of Student Engagement
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) collects information from first-year and fourth-year students at participating baccalaureate-granting institutions in the United States and Canada. NSSE is used by institutions as a measure of the extent to which students engage in effective educational practices linked to learning and professional development. Cape Breton University participated in NSSE for the first time in 2011.
Sixty-eight Canadian institutions from 10 provinces participated in NSSE 2011. Of these, 12 were from Atlantic Canada, 19 from Western Canada, and 37 from Ontario and Quebec. A total of 494 first- and fourth-year CBU students accepted the invitation to participate in the survey in the winter of 2011, for a response rate of 39% (35% for first-year and 45% for fourth-year students).
To organize responses and focus discussions around student engagement, NSSE created five Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice:
