Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE)

FSSE Survey Instrument 2006

• Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for Education

• All instructional faculty

• All instructional faculty

Administration Plan

• Every six years beginning spring 2010, which will coincide with every other administration of the BCSSE and NSSE.

• The FSSE is designed to measure faculty expectations of student engagement in educational practices that are empirically linked with high levels of learning and development.  The survey also collects information about how faculty members spend their time related to professorial activities and the kinds of learning experiences their institution emphasizes.

Source: http://nsse.iub.edu/index.cfm

Relationship to Other Instruments

• Administration of the NSSE will allow for comparisons between students’ and faculty perceptions of classroom activities. Our administration of the BCSSE will allow for comparisons between high school and college engagement in academic activities.

• The FSSE administration distributes a full report for Carnegie Mellon’s responses as well as the national results. In addition to the overall results, we will have the option to select up to five additional grouping variables.

• The survey instrument and the aggregate Carnegie Mellon report will be available to the entire Carnegie Mellon Community through an authenticated link on the IR&A website.