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Education

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings

Entries for May 2007

How to Survey Student Engagement

May 31, 2007 06:47 PM ET | Morse, Robert |

Once again U.S. News is going to ask about 550 colleges and universities who participated in the 2006 National Survey of Student Engagement  to supply us with some of their results. Why is U.S. News collecting NSSE data? The goal of NSSE is to help schools see how engaged their students are in activities that lead to learning. U.S. News is committed to seeking and making this kind of important college accountability information available to the greatest extent possible.

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Tags: Commission on the Future of Higher Education | National Survey of Student Engagement | student engagement | surveys | data

Using the Common Data Set

May 15, 2007 06:55 PM ET |

The massive effort to produce the upcoming America’s Best Colleges rankings for the 2008 Edition of America's Best Colleges is well underway. For the rankings, we collect data from more than 1,450 four-year colleges. We began updating the statistical surveys used to gather the data for the new rankings in December 2006.

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Tags: data | rankings | Common Data Set

About this Blog

Robert Morse is director of data research for U.S. News & World Report and has worked at the magazine since 1976. He develops the methodologies and surveys for the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools annual rankings, keeping an eye on higher-education trends to make sure the rankings offer prospective students the best analysis available. Morse Code provides deeper insights into the methodologies and is a forum for commentary and analysis of college, grad and other rankings.

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