This study explores dissatisfaction and neutrality metrics from 12 years of a national-level undergraduate student survey. The notion of dissatisfaction is much less prevalent in the narratives surrounding student survey outcomes, and the underpinning metrics are seldom considered. This is despite an increasingly vociferous debate about…

We articulate a theory suggesting that the way families practice homeschooling is based on practical constraints imposed by household demographic characteristics and ideological considerations. These theories are empirically tested using the 2012, 2016, and 2019 waves of the National Household Education Survey and a sample of 1,468 homeschooling…

Calls to adopt proactive advising as a student success strategy are common, but evidence on what this entails is scarce. We present results from a national survey on the conceptualization and institutionalization of proactive advising at four-year U.S. colleges and universities. Examining differing views among advisors and administrators, we…

Mathematics Learning Support (MLS) has been widely available in Higher Education Institutions in the United States (US) for decades. However, until recently, there has been little research that considered the extent of provision. In this paper, we present the results of a survey of MLS with responses from 268 institutions across the US, which…

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) project team was pivotal in creating a framework and gathering data on high-impact practices (HIPs) to enhance student engagement in learning nationwide. Student engagement in HIPs is a vital institutional performance metric closely linked to strategic objectives and state-level funding. To maximize…

To what degree does parent occupation cause a child's occupational attainment? We articulate this causal question in the potential outcomes framework. Empirically, we show that adjustment for only two confounding variables substantially reduces the estimated association between parent and child occupation in a U.S. cohort. Methodologically, we…

Teacher production has important implications for our education system. Leveraging more than a decade of national data, the authors examine the supply of teachers and changes in the reserve pool of teachers in the United States. They find a substantial decrease in the teacher supply coinciding with the increase in demand for teachers starting in…

Many countries, including Australia, have established a national scheme that supports the recognition of a single ethical review for multi-centre research conducted in publicly funded health services. However, local site-specific governance review processes remain decentralised and highly variable. This short report describes the ethics and…

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997, we examine differences in educational experiences and in social and economic mobility for youths experiencing poverty relative to their more affluent peers. We also explore the extent to which different educational experiences are associated with greater mobility for students…

Background: This article describes how the National Reading Barometer project has redefined the concept of 'reading culture' in South Africa. Objectives: As expressed in the 2023 National Reading Survey (N = 4250) and the 2023 National Reading Barometer, a clearer description of reading cultures was developed to describe both individual reading…

This qualitative study is an attempt to collect data describing college students' descriptions of significant learning experiences during college. The data collected comes from two separate samples across four years. Through open-ended comments provided at the end of the National Survey of Student Engagement and thematic analysis, interesting…

This brief examines national trends in the representation of first-generation college students over a 24-year period. Using data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS) and the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS), the analysis finds a significant decline in the proportion of first-generation students enrolled in…

The purpose of the Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments (FACE) project is to understand who faculty are, what their academic careers look like, and how the environments in which they work shape their ability to thrive as instructors, researchers and public scholars in the community. This report provides an overview of a new conceptual model…

This report describes the two-year pilot study of how best to create a national study of faculty working at non-profit colleges and universities of all types across the country, given the social media and survey research environment of the 2020s. Since 2004, two major developments have significantly changed the landscape for academic employment:…

This study aimed to offer fresh insights into the analysis of attitudes towards learning and perceptions of lifelong learning affecting lifelong learning participation by exploring the differences in network structures between lifelong learning participants and non-participants and identifying the core items with the greatest impact on lifelong…