2006 Faculty WellBeing Survey: Assessment Activities

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2006 Faculty Well-Being Survey Assessment
Activities

• Presentation for the NC State Assessment Work
  Group
• May 2, 2007
• Nancy Whelchel, PhD
• Assistant Director for Survey Research
• University Planning and Analysis
• http//www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/survey/faculty/

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Overview

• Brief update
• Participation in program assessment
• Familiarity with program assessment
• Input into program assessment
• Support for assessment activities

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Update The Bottom Line

• Results are generalizable to NC State faculty
• 69.7 response rate
• No significant differences in response rates
  among subgroups
• Overall results are generally positive

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Update Results posted on webhttp//www2.acs.ncsu
.edu/UPA/survey/faculty/

• Executive summary (overall results)
• Research methods
• Annotated questionnaire
• Tables by
• College
• Overall results
• Tenure-track faculty only (coming soon)
• Academic and demographic profiles (coming soon)
• Academic Profile (rank, tenure status,
  administrative experience)
• Demographic Profile (gender, race/ethnicity,
  citizenship, age, years at NC State)
• Select presentations topical reports
• Invitation for feedback

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Participation in academic program assessment
Question wording

• M2. About what proportion of the hours indicated
  above do you typically spend on each of the
  following general activities? (Remember to have
  all your activities total to 100 percent!)Under
  each general activity please mark which of the
  specific activities are included in the work you
  do.
• M2f Service Work
• M2f_4 Academic program assessment activities
  (yes)

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Participation in academic program assessment
activities by college
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Participation in academic program assessment
activities by rank, gender, race
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Familiarity with academic program assessment
Question wording

• D2. How familiar are you with academic program
  assessment in your department?
• (Very familiar, somewhat familiar, Not very
  familiar, Not at all familiar)

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Familiarity with academic program assessment
activities in departmentby college
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Familiarity w/ academic program assessment
activities by participation in assessment
(N260)
(N769)
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Input on program assessment activities Question
wording

• D1. I am encouraged to provide input on
• B. Program assessment activities
• (Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly
  Disagree)

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Input on program assessment activities By
college
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Input on program assessment activities By
participation in assessment activities
(N261)
(N764)
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Support for assessment activities Question
wording

• G4. How satisfied are you personally with each of
  the following?
• k. Support for assessment activities in the
  department
• (Very satisfied, Satisfied, Dissatisfied, Very
  dissatisfied, Insufficient evidence to judge)

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Insufficient evidence to judge satisfaction
with support for department assessment
activities By college
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Satisfaction with support for department
assessment activities By college
(N42)
(N136)
(N22)
(N35)
(N45)
(N46)
(N181)
(N116)
(N23)
(N70)
(N23)
(N6)
(N745)
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Satisfaction with support for department
assessment activities By participation in
assessment activities
(N224)
(N506)
(N224)
(N506)
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Satisfaction with support for department
assessment activities among those participating
in academic program assessment activities By
college
(N31)
(N13)
(N23)
(N9)
(N12)
(N10)
(N16)
(N38)
(N16)
(N4)
(N43)
(N9)
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Satisfaction with support for department
assessment activities among those NOT
participating in academic program assessment
activities By college
(N18)
(N10)
(N24)
(N14)
(N102)
(N135)
(N51)
(N30)
(N31)
(N75)
(N14)
(N1)
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Satisfaction with support for department
assessment activities By familiarity with
academic program assessment in department
(N18)
(N70)
(N294)
(N354)
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Satisfaction with support for department
assessment activities, among those familiar with
department assessment activities By college
(N38)
(N118)
(N28)
(N20)
(N38)
(N22)
(N153)
(N109)
(N36)
(N62)
(N6)
(N17)
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Open-end comments Assessment(see handout)

• When you think about your own personal
  experiences at NC State University, what would
  you say are the most positive aspects of being a
  member of the faculty here?
• 0 out of 869 respondents
• What are the most serious problems or concerns
  that you have in working at NC State?
• 10 out of 873 respondents
• What do you think are the most significant
  changes that should be made at NC State to
  improve or enhance the quality of your work life
  here?
• 21 out of 818 respondents