Revisiting the Relationship Between Institutional Rank and Student Engagement
Revisiting the Relationship Between Institutional Rank and Student Engagement
 
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Revisiting the Relationship Between Institutional Rank and Student Engagement

Presented at:
AERA 2015 Annual Meeting
April 17, 2015

John Zilvinskis, Indiana University - Bloomington
Louis Rocconi Indiana University - Bloomington

Abstract

Using data from the 2013 administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), multilevel models were employed to explore the relationship between student engagement and three institutional ranking schemes: U.S. News, Forbes, and Washington Monthly.  Findings reveal few relationships exist between NSSE’s measures of student engagement and the three institutional ranking schemes, except for a negative relationship between the three ranking schemes and student-faculty interactions; implications of these findings are included.

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