1. The National Survey of Student Engagement: Conceptual and Empirical Foundations (George D. Kuh)
This chapter summarizes the history of the engagement concept in American higher education, including the development of the National Survey of Student Engagement and its impact on institutional researchers.

2. The Use of Engagement Data in Accreditation, Planning, and Assessment (Trudy W. Banta, Gary R. Pike, Michele J. Hansen)
Student engagement data can be used to meet both external reporting requirements and internal planning needs using a cyclical model of assessment that creates an institutional culture of decision making based on evidence.

3. Analyzing and Interpreting NSSE Data (Pu-Shih Daniel Chen, Robert M. Gonyea, Shimon A. Sarraf, Allison BrckaLorenz, Ali Korkmaz, Amber D. Lambert, Rick Shoup, Julie M. Williams)
The authors share practical tips and recommendations for analyzing student engagement data, including considerations for working with multiple years of data and interpreting effect sizes.

4. The Role of Precollege Data in Assessing and Understanding Student Engagement in College (James S. Cole, Marianne Kennedy, Michael Ben-Avie)
Precollege student data on academic abilities, attitudes, and engagement help institutions understand their new students and assess firstyear programs. This chapter provides examples of how academic and student affairs have used the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement to promote student learning and development.

5. Effectively Involving Faculty in the Assessment of Student Engagement (Thomas F. Nelson Laird, Robert Smallwood, Amanda Suniti Niskodé-Dossett, Amy K. Garver)
This chapter promotes the involvement of faculty in institutional research efforts by describing four roles faculty can play in the assessment of student engagement.

6. Converting Engagement Results into Action (Jillian Kinzie, Barbara S. Pennipede)
The authors highlight how institutions can effectively use NSSE results to implement positive change on campus and suggest how institutional research can partner with others in the campus community to use data to inform action.

7. Toward Reflective Accountability: Using NSSE for Accountability and Transparency (Alexander C. McCormick)
Conveying a vision of accountability rooted in professional responsibility, the author observes how assessment tools like NSSE offer several ways that institutions can respond to demands for accountability and transparency, and discusses important considerations associated with the public reporting of engagement data.

8. NSSE, Organizational Intelligence, and the Institutional Researcher (Robert M. Gonyea, George D. Kuh)
This chapter places the main points in this volume in an organizational intelligence framework in order to help institutional researchers productively use NSSE and other student engagement tools.

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