Steven M. LaNasa , Alberto F. Cabrera, Heather Trangsrud

Abstract: As institutions seek to promote student engagement on campus, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is increasingly being used to chart progress and compare results using the Five Benchmark Scores. While recent research has begun to decompose the five benchmarks in a variety of ways; few research studies have sought to explore the underlying structure of these five benchmarks, their interdependence, and the extent to which the items do reflect those five dimensions. This study begins to address the instrument’s construct validity by submitting a single, first-time freshman cohort’s NSSE responses to a confirmatory factor analysis, and proposes as an alternative, eight “dimensions’’ of student engagement that fit this set of data slightly better and in a more useful way. Results have practical implications for institutions utilizing NSSE, but also contain conceptual implications pertaining to the application of these benchmarks.

Key words: Student engagement; Construct validity; Confirmatory factor analysis

总 结：

1、机构为了寻求促进学生参与校园的途径,学生参与的全国性调查(NSSE)被越来越多地在图表使用基础上进行5个基准分数的进步和结果比较。

2、最近的研究已开始以各种方式分解5基准，但很少有研究试图探索这5个标准的底层结构是否相互依存,项目在多大程度上反映了这5个维度。

3、本研究通过提交一个初次新生群的NSSE反应验证性因素分析开始解决调查工具的结构效度问题,并提出八个“维度”的学生参与作为一种替代方法, 以一种更有用的方式使这组数据的适切性略好。结果对机构利用NSSE的实践意义,但也包含用于阐释或说明这些基准的应用概念的影响。

来源：Res High Educ. Mar 2009, DOI 10.1007/s11162-009-9123-1,p315-332,18p.