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The Validity of Student Engagement Survey Questions: Can We Accurately Measure Academic Challenge?
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Porter, Stephen R.; Rumann, Corey; Pontius, Jason – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2011
Survey data are widely used in higher education for purposes such as assessment and strategic planning. One of the most common ways of using surveys has been to assess student learning outcomes by means of proxy questions on a survey, assuming that students who engage in specific behaviors (called engagement) have learned more during college than…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Student Surveys, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement