Survey Information and Available Reports
The OIAR staff is available to assist WSSU faculty and staff with survey development and reporting. Before launching a survey, members of the campus community should consult with OIAR to discuss the survey development process and data that may already be available. We have recently assisted Human Resources, the School of Health Sciences, UCaLL, and many other departments with surveys for customer service, evaluation, research, and assessment. To learn more about how we can help with your survey project, look over our Survey Request Process.
To learn more about any of these assessments, contact Office of Institutional Assessment & Research at 336-750-8036.
Survey Information
Through its student survey, The College Student Report, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) annually collects information at hundreds of four-year colleges and universities about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development. The results provide an estimate of how undergraduates spend their time and what they gain from attending college.
Survey items on the College Student Report represent empirically confirmed "good practices" in undergraduate education. NSSE doesn’t assess student learning directly, but survey results point to areas where colleges and universities are performing well and aspects of the undergraduate experience that could be improved.
Beginning in summer 2023, Winston-Salem State University administers all course evaluations online through Watermark Course Evaluations &Surveys ( CES ). Students are asked to complete an evaluation for each course in order to give the instructor(s) constructive feedback. Aggregate reports are available in Tableau Workbooks.
Instructors are asked to assess one assignment for each of their courses that maps to a WSSU institutional learning outcome. The assignments are scored using the appropriate rubric, and score frequencies are reported on a survey. Co-curricular activities mapped to institutional learning outcomes are also invited to submit rubric data through the online survey. The WSSU Student Learning Outcome Report is now available in a Tableau workbook.
For more information about how to navigate this report in Tableau, please read through our step-by-step guide.
The Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) was designed to complement the NSSE, which is administered to undergraduate students. The faculty version focuses on:
- Faculty perceptions of how often students engage in different activities.
- The importance faculty place on various areas of learning and development.
- The nature and frequency of faculty-student interactions.
- How faculty members organize their time, both in and out of the classroom.
