Skip to content

Surveys

New Website Views

Surveys Data Views!
Tue, Jan 14 2020 at 7:52 AM

Visit the new Surveys portal page! Survey data listed by survey type and survey year.  Easy image view to choose the survey data you want to view.

All surveys have been transitioned to the new portal page and this location serves as an archival reference and is no longer updated.

View more posts

Sources - Surveys - Reports List

Handouts list view Handouts card view
Source Documentation

SSI - Student Satisfaction Inventory

SSI Questions

The Student Satisfaction Inventory is a nationally benchmarked student survey offered through Ruffalo Noel Levitz (RNL).  One key to student success is to assess student satisfaction.  According to RNL, "Successful campuses continuously strive to improve the quality of the student experience. In order to do that, you need to know where to focus your efforts.

The Student Satisfaction Inventory gives you a powerful tool to improve the quality of student life and learning. It measures student satisfaction and priorities, showing you how satisfied students are as well as what issues are important to them. Use this data to:

  • Guide strategic action planning
  • Strengthen student retention initiatives
  • Meet accreditation requirements
  • Identify areas of strength for institutional marketing
  • Chart your progress toward campus goals"

CCSSE and SENSE

Handouts list view Handouts card view
Student Engagement Surveys

The Center for Community College Engagement provide surveys that "ask questions that assess institutional practices and student behaviors and experiences that are correlated highly with student learning and student retention. All are research-based tools appropriate for multiple uses, such as benchmarking and accreditation":

Understanding Survey Results - a guide to means, frequencies, benchmarks and more
Title Description File type
Center for Student Engagement
.pdf
CCSSE

Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) survey is a nationally normed survey that is a product and service of the Center for Community College Student Engagement, is a well-established tool that helps institutions focus on good educational practice and identify areas in which they can improve their programs and services for students. The CCSSE is one way to measure the quality of instruction and services provided to students attending Southwestern, allowing for staff to review results and implement continual improvement intiatives to better serve students. Visit the CCSSE website to view national and state data at: http://www.ccsse.org/survey/profiles.cfm

According to the website, the survey is known as "An Improvement Strategy for Community Colleges. The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) provides a much-needed tool for assessing quality in community college education. CCSSE results help colleges focus on good educational practice — defined as practice that promotes high levels of student learning and retention — and identify areas in which community colleges can improve their programs and services for students. All our work is grounded in research about what works in strengthening student learning and persistence."
Title Description File type
CCSSE Benchmark Comparison

This survey was first administered in 2004 and in subsequent years based on grant participation and as of 2011 on a three year cycle as part of the Oregon consortium

 		.pdf
CCSSE Benchmark Questions

Lists the questions within CCSSE that comprise the benchmarks.

 		.pdf
Key Findings at Southwestern: 2014
.pdf
Matter of Degrees

A report on the high impact practices for student success.

 		.pdf
Key Findings at Southwestern: 2011
.pdf
Executive Summary - CCSSE: 2008
.pdf
Executive Summary - CCSSE: 2007
.pdf
Executive Summary - CCSSE: 2006
.pdf
SENSE

The Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE), a product and service of the Center for Community College Student Engagement, helps community colleges discover why some entering students persist and succeed while others are not retained. Visit the website for the benchmark survey elements.

This survey was first administered in 2009 with an administration cycle of every three years as part of the Oregon consortium.

2018 SENSE Key Findings

2018 SENSE Benchmark Overview

2018 SENSE Benchmark Peer Interactive Report
Title Description File type
2018 Key Findings at Southwestern
.pdf
2018 SENSE Benchmark Overview

Benchmarks provide an overview of how the college compares on the normed survey for a specific survey administration.  Comparisons from survey to survey are not comparable given the differences in survey participants and survey questions.

 		.pdf
2018 SENSE Benchmark by Student Category Overview
.pdf
2018 Benchmark Peer Comparison
.pdf
Key Findings at Southwestern 2015
.pdf
SENSE Benchmark Overview 2015
.pdf
SENSE Consortium Benchmark Comparison

Compares Southwestern to the Oregon consortium colleges, to Achieving the Dream colleges and to the other small colleges participating in SENSE.

 		.pdf
SENSE Benchmark Comparison by Student Categories
.pdf
CCSSE 2014 Breakout Reports and Workshop Materials
Title Description File type
Statewide Workshop Presentation

The presentation was provided at a statewide workshop for consortium college participants by CCSSE staff on November 4, 2014.  Based on the presentation and other research referenced by the CCSSE website as well as Southwestern data, the key areas where large differences exist (5 points or more) are:

  • Support for Learners Benchmark: lower benchmark score compared to other small colleges and also very low at Southwestern
  • Enrollment Status - Full/Part-Time: scores varied more than 5 points from comparison colleges  (small colleges and/or Oregon consortium) and was consistently lower at Southwestern
  • Developmental Course Status - scores varied more than 5 points from comparison colleges (small colleges and/or Oregon consortium)
  • Gender: scores varied more than 5 points from comparison colleges (small colleges and/or Oregon consortium) and within Southwestern gender scores varied in some benchmark areas more than 5 points
 		.pptx
Benchmark Report: NonTraditional Age by Developmental Course Status
.pdf
Benchmark Report: NonTraditional by Gender
.pdf
Benchmark Report: Traditional Age by Developmental Course Status
.pdf
Benchmark Report: Traditional Age by Gender
.pdf
Benchmark Report: Credits < 30 by Enrollment Status
.pdf
Benchmark Report: Credits GE 30 by Enrollment Status
.pdf

National Surveys

There is no content in this portlet.

IPEDS Reporting

IPEDS Survey Definitions/Overview and Student Success Highlights

IPEDS Surveys New Webpage Access Location!

Visit the new IPEDS Survey access links. 

The information on this portal page is intended for archival purposes only.

Survey Definitions/Overview

 

IPEDS Portal Image Link
Data Feedback Reports

All IPEDS reporting is titled with the IPEDS year - this is normally the prior year data.  Example:  2016 IPEDS feedback report is for 2015-16 academic year data.  Example:  2016-17 IPEDS Completion Report is for the 2015-16 academic year data.
Completion and Graduation Rate Reports

Completion (total awards received by students); Graduation Rate Reports (based on cohort students including transfer); and Outcomes (first reported in 2015-16 - completion, transfer, enrolled)
Library Reports

Library reports first required reporting to IPEDS was in 2014-15 by reporting data for the 2013-14 academic year.

Southwestern Surveys

Advising Services

Institutional Surveys New Webpage Access Location!

Visit the new Institutional Survey access links. 

The information on this portal page is intended for archival purposes only.

 
Graduate Surveys

The graduate survey analysis changed format in 2013-14 and is now reported as Success Indicator 37: Graduate Survey.

(.pdf, 363K)
Download 2014 Graduate Survey Analysis: Success Indicator 37

Graduate Surveys were conducted via pen and paper prior to 2011, therefore no survey responses are posted for 2011 and prior years.

(.pdf, 313K)
Download 2011 Graduate Survey Analysis
ITS Surveys

The ITS survey will be administered once every 4 years beginning with 2015 to coincide with the program review cycle of once each 4 years.

(.pdf, 78K)
Download 2012 ITS Staff Survey Responses

The ITS Media Services survey will be administered once every 4 years beginning with 2016 to coincide with the program review cycle of once each 4 years.

(.pdf, 64K)
Download 2011 Media Services Staff Survey

The ITS survey will be administered once every 2 years beginning with 2012.

(.pdf, 83K)
Download 2010 ITS Staff Survey
Recreation Center
Distance Learning Surveys