Surveys at AUR
The American
University of Rome administers several institution
wide surveys – to improve teaching and learning
and to continue to build enhancements to the AUR
experience, based on feedback from our stakeholders
– students, faculty, staff, alumni, Board
of Trustees.
A brief Description of the survey instruments
currently in use and results are given below:
AUR Life Survey
This is a new survey at AUR and is aimed at gathering
information about all aspects of the service we
provide to students – how our administration
meets the needs and expectations of students,
how our environment is viewed, how well they settled
into life here in Rome through Orientation both
pre- and post – arrival. This is administered
by our Student Services office with the Provost’s
office and goes out to all students in week 10
of each term, from Fall 2005. This replaces a
previous survey instrument which we used called
the Program Survey.
National Survey of
Student Engagement (NSSE)
This National survey is administered by the National
Survey of Student Engagement, Indiana University
(see http://www.indiana.edu/~nsse/). Its purpose
is to enable institutions to gain insight into
student participation and active engagement in
academic, extra-curricular, co-curricular, and
social programs and assists institutions in gathering
data on these areas as well as the students own
personal growth whilst studying at the given University.
We started these surveys in the Spring of 2004
and have conducted them in Spring 2005, and aim
to in Spring 2006. We shall then undertake this
survey on a 3 year cycle. It is currently undertaken
by all First year and Senior students who are
degree- seeking students here. One of the reasons
we undertake this survey here at AUR is to see
how we measuring up to students perception of
an American Education and the surevy is benchmarked.
However as we are not in the USA we have to date
not been able to take part in this comparative
gauge but hope to be benchmarked in the Spring
2006 report.
Senior’s Survey
The Seniors Survey is an internally administered
survey conducted by Student Services to gather
feedback from the Grdauating class of each academic
year.
Below are examples of the survey together with
reports from 2004, and 2005.
Senior’s Survey
Senior’s Survey Report 2004
Senior’s Survey Report 2005
Noel-Levitz Survey
We are developing surveys for Alumni and for
Faculty.
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