Looking Ahead to NSSE 2.0 By Knowing What to Keep from NSSE 1.1: Construct Validity and Invariance Properties of NSSE Benchmarks Across Institutional Types
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NSSE. Love it? Hate it? Puzzled by its recent attention? Happy it is criticized? There is much to like and dislike about NSSE, in addition to concern that expensive benchmark data will be obsolete given NSSE 2.0. This paper takes a critical look at the currently conceived NSSE benchmarks among two higher education types (liberal arts college and regional research university) and reveals benchmarks, and their respective items, that are adequately justified for use in institutional evaluation and change processes (Banta, Pike, & Hansen, 2009) and inclusion for NSSE 2.0. Via findings from structural equation methodology (SEM), three of the present NSSE benchmark’s (level of academic challenge, studentfaculty interaction, and supportive campus environment) construct validity and invariance properties support continued use, however, two of the three remaining benchmarks (level of academic challenge and supportive campus environment) require revision.
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