Institutional Studies

This site is actively under construction and hosts reports on institutional assessment studies and surveys.
Please click on the title of a study in order to open a PDF version of that report.

Newly Posted: ACT Alumni Survey Write-up

Alphabetical listing:

ACT Alumni Survey
The Alumni Survey Write-up includes findings on all survey items, a comparison to four-year public institutions, a cross-tab analysis by "year of graduation" and updated information on items relating to general education.

This Alumni Survey Report focuses on survey items relating to general education. A subsequent report on all alumni survey items is forthcoming.

CIRP
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program is one of several national surveys conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The CIRP focuses on freshmen and individual campus data from participating institutions is compiled into an annual report called "The American Freshman."

USFSP Summary Report [forthcoming]. USFSP Reports: 2008 CIRP, 2007 CIRP, 2006 CIRP, 2005 CIRP, 2004 CIRP

FETPIP
The Florida Educational and Training Placement Information Program is the state's repository of employment and education data. This report focuses on findings relating to USFSP graduates from 2003-04 through 2006-07.

MAPP
The Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress is a tool that is used to assess learning outcomes in general education. This report focuses on findings from the 2008-09 use of the MAPP with first-time freshmen, and two groups of seniors: native seniors and seniors that were upper-division transfers.

The 2009-10 administration of the MAPP begins at summer orientation for freshmen (August 2009) and transfer students (May - June 2009) and will continue into fall 2009 for native seniors and seniors that were upper-division transfers (October - November 2009).

NSSE
The National Survey of Student Engagement has been administered by USFSP for several years (2004-2007) and again in 2009. This NSSE Report focuses on findings relating to general education. A subsequent report on all NSSE survey items is forthcoming.

USFSP Commencement Survey
The Graduating Senior Survey is administered at the end of each semester to students that are eligible for graduation. This survey was administered in spring and summer of 2008 was modified in fall 2008 to include items relating to general education. This report focuses on findings relating to general education. A subsequent report on all survey items for each survey administration is forthcoming.

USFSP Employer Survey
The Employer Survey was administered for the first time in spring 2009. It's primary focus was to assess employer perception of USFSP graduates in terms of student learning outcomes in general education.