National Survey Of Student Engagement

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The instrument used to measure participants’ engagement was adapted from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). The NSSE is a self-report instrument that assesses the extent to which students engage in educational practices associated with high levels of learning and development. Since it was launched in 2000, approximately 5 million students at over 1,600 colleges and universities have completed the NSSE (NSSE, 2014). For Axelson and Flick (2011), it is no exaggeration to say of the NSSE that most college teachers and administrators automatically think of it whenever they hear the term student

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