Do College Student Surveys Have Any Validity?

By Stephen R. Porter. 2011

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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A Comparative Study of Student Engagement, Satisfaction, and Academic Success among International and American Students. (2012, background): “Third, Porter (2001) questioned validity of a typical college survey concluding it has minimal validity; NSSE and other college student surveys cannot withstand scrutiny in his opinion.”
Developing a measure of interdisciplinary competence (2012, background): “One criticism of survey-based measures of learning outcomes is that they are self-reported by students rather than derived from more objective measures of student performance, such as tests or direct observations of student performances (see, for example, [48]).”
First-generation students' academic engagement and retention (2012, background): “…relies on students’ selfreported assessment of academic engagement, a factor that some have identified as problematic due to inaccuracy (Bowman 2011; Porter 2009); however, Bowman (2010) found that first-generation students tend to be more accurate in self-reports than other students, which could…”
How Sound Is NSSE?: Investigating the Psychometric Properties of NSSE at a Public, Research-Extensive Institution (2011, methodology): “77”
Student Involvement in Ethnic Student Organizations: Examining Civic Outcomes 6 Years After Graduation (2015, background): “attributes, and these traits are very socially desirable; all of these characteristics may lead to inaccurate student and alumni responses (see Bowman 2010; Porter 2011).”
Using the Theory of Satisficing to Evaluate the Quality of Survey Data (2011, background): “This problem potentially adds an additional layer to the questions currently being asked about the validity of student surveys used in higher education (Porter 2011).”
The Role of Faculty, Counselors, and Support Programs on Latino/a Community College Students’ Success and Intent to Persist (2015, background): “However, it is important to acknowledge that grades, especially self-reported GPAs, as a measure of learning have been called into question and also deemed unreliable (Porter, 2011).”