Using college students' self-reported learning outcomes in scholarly research
✍ Scribed by Gary R. Pike
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Volume
- 2011
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-0579
- DOI
- 10.1002/ir.388
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✦ Synopsis
Surveys of students' educational experiences and learning outcomes have become an important component in higher education research and assessment. A national survey of chief academic officers by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (Kuh and Ikenberry, 2009) found that 76 percent of the responding institutions made use of national surveys in their assessment programs. My informal review of the Journal of College Student Development, Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, and The Review of Higher Education revealed that 60 percent of the articles published in these journals in 2006 made use of selfreport data from surveys (Pike, 2008). A review of the same journals for 2010 revealed that 50 percent of the articles used self-reports from surveys of alumni, faculty, staff, or students.
The appropriateness of using self-report data in research and assessment has been widely debated.