A symposium discussion of the use of the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ) is presented. Intended for undergraduates at four-year colleges and universities, the CSEQ is a brief instrument that produces reliable and valid information for evaluation and assessment purposes. It asks students to indicate how often during the current…

The ways many people view higher education today are examined, especially some of the ways evaluators, researchers, and others are assessing college benefits and college impact. Trends toward getting a college education without going to college are discussed, with reference to the evaluation design of the input-environment-output model. College…

It is proposed that the breadth or scope of high quality effort by college students to use facilities and opportunities on campus is a potential index of the quality of undergraduate education. In 1979 and 1980, responses to quality-of-effort measures (generally, student activity checklists) were obtained from over 9,000 undergraduates at 30…

A pamphlet developed for high school students describes the student body of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and provides an idea of what it's like to attend the university. Information about the student composition was derived from a survey of 2,600 UCLA freshmen during the fall of 1975. In the annual freshmen survey, students…

This document presents tentative 1990-91 norms for the College Student Experiences Questionnaire (CSEQ).The norms are based on student (n=20,513) questionnaires which gathered data from 18 doctoral universities, 21 general liberal arts colleges, 19 comprehensive colleges and universities, and 5 highly selective liberal arts colleges. Data are…

The development and use of the College Student Experiences Questionnaire to assess the quality of students' effort and the attainment of college-related goals are discussed. The questionnaire covers college facilities (e.g., educational, cultural, and recreational), and personal/interpersonal experiences at college. Responses to 14 scales covering…