Student Success Assessment - Tools, Data, Instructional Videos

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

Datasets (SPSS, and Excel), codebooks. 

Pilot Data:

Download Pilot Data: Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra; Shotick, Kimberly; Osorio, Nestor (2024). Student Academic Engagement and Success Survey - Pilot Data. University of Illinois Chicago. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.25468174

Year 2 Data:

Download SAES datasets and codebooks: Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra; Shotick, Kimberly; Osorio, Nestor (2024). SAES Survey Data & Codebook Year 2: UIC & NIU. University of Illinois Chicago. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.26829118

Download Online weekly journals datasets and codebooks: Scoulas, Jung Mi; De Groote, Sandra; Shotick, Kimberly; Osorio, Nestor (2024). OWJ Survey Data & Codebook Year 2: UIC & NIU. University of Illinois Chicago. Dataset.

https://doi.org/10.25417/uic.26829133

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

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

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)