May 28, 2008
Researchers Worry About Inflated Measures of Student Engagement
As "accountability" has become a buzzword in higher education, measures of student engagement have attracted renewed attention. But, if only the most dedicated students respond to such surveys, how reliable are the results?
Not very, three researchers from Cornell University argue in a paper they presented this week at the annual conference of the Association for Institutional Research, in Seattle. The researchers used data about Cornell students to show that surveys of student
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