Student Success Assessment - Implementation Data at UIC and NIU
Project description: This two-year research project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (funding number: IMLS LG-252338-OLS-22), develops assessment tools to capture the undergraduate students’ academic engagement including library use, psychological factors, and their own academic success. It explores how students define success, the library’s role in their achievement, and factors correlating with GPA.
During the second year of the research project, the Student Academic Engagement and Success (SAES) Survey and the eight-week Online Journaling (OWJ) were revised and implemented at UIC and NIU. The SAES survey, conducted in January–February, had 1,899 respondents at UIC (9.8% of 19,371) and 577 at NIU (6.9% of 8,423). Students who expressed interest in OWJ were invited to participate, with 151 from UIC and 87 from NIU enrolling. By week eight, 117 UIC and 70 NIU students completed all sessions, while others participated to varying degrees.
Required software: SPSS or Excel
Downloads: Datasets (SPSS, and Excel), codebooks.
Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra; Shotick, Kimberly; Osorio, Nestor (2024). Student Success Data and Codebooks. University of Illinois at Chicago. Collection.
https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.c.7241047
Assessment tools (SAES and OWJ)
Student Academic Engagement and Success (SAES) Survey
Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra; Shotick, Kimberly; Osorio, Nestor (2024). Student Academic Engagement and Success (SAES) survey. University of Illinois at Chicago. Educational resource. https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.26828848.v1
Online Weekly Journal (OWJ)
Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra; Shotick, Kimberly; Osorio, Nestor (2024). Online Weekly Journal (OWJ) Weekly Surveys and Recruitment material. University of Illinois at Chicago. Educational resource. https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.26828920.v2
The Assessment Tools are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA-4.0.
Instructional Videos: https://libscholar.digital.uic.edu/assessment-tools/recordings/
Questions about dataset, please contact at assessmenttools@uic.edu
Funding: IMLS LG-252338-OLS-22 (https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-252338-ols-22)