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button 1  Learning Leaders - Spring 2008
What are the characteristics of individuals who motivate students to get engaged in their learning?

National Study of Living Learning Programs - 2007
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button 1  Presentation on Living-Learning Research at MSU - December 2007
First-Year Students


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(Fall and Spring Surveys) NEW

First-Time, First-Year, First Week of Classes Surveys (Fall)

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First-Time, First-Year Students- January Follow-Up Surveys (Spring)
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Floor Community Surveys
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Student Housing Demographics
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Transfer Students
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The Sophomore Experience
sophomore survey  March 2002  

Assessment Activities to Learn About Our Students

In the Department of Residence Life there is a continuing commitment to learning about the student experience at MSU. Through on-going surveys, conversations, focus groups and other methods, we are able to learn more about student life. Though every student has a unique experience, we also look at class level, racial-ethnic background, lifestyle, living-learning program, college or major, residence hall environment, and gender in order to increase our understanding.

The survey of incoming first-year students has been conducted for seven years. In these surveys students rate the liklihood that they will have a number of common college experiences.

After their first semester, these same first-year students report on their actual experiences in the First-Time First-Year Follow-Up Surveys.

Floor Community surveys are conducted with all students in undergraduate residence halls and these surveys look at students' attitudes towards residence hall staff, and community life.

Other surveys are conducted on a less regular basis. Some of them are featured on the left. Additionally, each year general demographics are reported for the various living areas at MSU.