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Entering Student Survey : 2007 Oregon State University Results

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  • OSU has engaged in surveying entering first year students during the summer START sessions for seven years using the CIRP Freshman Survey. Understanding the experiences, expectations, and goals of first year students aids in planning and developing services that will better meet the needs of this ever-changing population of students. While CIRP information has proved to be useful to OSU, the OSU Student Affairs Assessment Council determined that there might be a need also to gain additional kinds of information from the entering students. A committee was formed which included members of the Student Affairs Assessment Council, Academic Advisors, a representative from OSU Libraries, the Honors College, and Student Orientation and Retention Programs (Appendix A, Entering Student Survey Committee). The purpose of the committee was to find or create an instrument that would provide information about the first year cohort that would be additive to the information obtained from previous CIRP surveys. Specifically the committee was asked to examine the literature, research on first year students and to determine the dimensions or areas of information that was lacking on OSU entering first year students. As the committee worked, they examined the literature, learning goals for Student Affairs, existing data, and existing nationally available surveys. After review of this information, the committee determined that using a combination of the ACT Entering Student Survey and the ACT Student Needs Survey best fit the intent of the committee and the OSU Assessment Council. Because the ACT instruments were proprietary, the committee gained approval from ACT to purchase and use their questions with some modification to align with OSU language (Appendix B, Timeline and Process of Survey Selection, Development, and Production). The following report is based upon the data collected by using this survey, which the committee entitled the Entering Student Survey.
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