INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS:

National Surveys

The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) is a national survey administered every other year at SPC. It provides information about effective educational practices in community colleges and assists institutions in using that information to promote improvements in student learning and persistence.

The Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) benchmarks are groups of conceptually related survey items that address key areas of entering student engagement. The six benchmarks denote areas that educational research has shown to be important to entering students’ college experiences and educational outcomes; thus, they provide colleges with a useful starting point for looking at institutional results.