Overview
About the Online Reporting System
CCSSE 2021 Cohort Overview
Student Respondent Profile
CCSSE Sampling
Communications Tools
Welcome to the online reporting system for the 2021 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE).
About the Online Reporting System
The online reporting system contains results from both the paper-and-pencil and online administrations of CCSSE.
The online reporting system contains multiple resources for colleges to utilize in accessing and understanding their institutional report results. Brief descriptions of information contained within the options in the left vertical navigation bar are outlined below:
Understanding Survey Results: This page provides basic information about excluded respondents, types of available institutional reports, weighting, and student-level breakout definitions.
Standard Reports: This page contains the college’s standard 2021 Institutional Reports and data file.
Custom Report Requests: This page provides colleges an opportunity to request custom benchmark, means, and frequency reports with optional comparisons and breakouts.
Completed Report Requests: Custom reports will be housed on this page for fifteen calendar days from the date of report creation.
Faculty Survey (CCFSSE) Reports: This page contains frequency reports for colleges that participated in CCFSSE and example reports for those that did not.
Online Student Survey (SOSE) Reports: This page contains frequency reports for colleges that participated in SOSE.
Feedback: The Center welcomes college feedback on the CCSSE online reporting system—how it has worked for you and what you would like to see in the future. The Center will periodically roll out new features as they are developed. If you have questions or concerns while using the online reporting system, you may also e-mail the Center.
CCSSE 2021 Cohort Overview
CCSSE utilizes a three-year cohort (2019 through 2021) of participating colleges in all of its data analyses, including the computation of benchmark scores. This cohort is referred to as the 2021 CCSSE Cohort. The 2021 CCSSE Cohort includes 411 institutions from 46 states, Bermuda, Marshall Islands, and Micronesia. Two-hundred six are classified as small (<4,500), 95 as medium (4,500-7,999), 77 as large (8,000-14,999), and 33 as extra-large institutions (15,000+) credit students.
CCSSE Sampling
Paper-and-Pencil Administration
In CCSSE sampling procedures, students are sampled at the classroom level. As a result, full-time students, who by definition are enrolled in more classes than part-time students, are more likely to be sampled. To adjust for this sampling bias, a statistical weighting procedure is applied to CCSSE results when analysis contains both full-time and part-time students. Weighting is uniquely calculated for each institution and is based on the most recent publicly available IPEDS enrollment figures. As an additional option, colleges can choose to produce reports via the Custom Report Requests page with the statistical weighting feature disabled if they feel this is more appropriate. More information on weighting can be found on the Understanding Survey Results page.
Online Administration
In order to boost responses to the online survey, CCSSE does not employ a sampling strategy for the online administration. The online survey invitation is sent to all eligible students during the spring academic term. As more full-time students are likely to respond to the online survey than part-time students, a statistical weighting procedure is applied to CCSSE results when analysis contains both full-time and part-time students. Weighting is uniquely calculated for each institution and is based on the most recent publicly available IPEDS enrollment figures. As an additional option, colleges can choose to produce reports via the Custom Report Requests page with the statistical weighting feature disabled if they feel this is more appropriate. More information on weighting can be found on the Understanding Survey Results page.
Communication Tools
The Center has created a variety of tools for colleges to utilize in working with their data and sharing their institutional results. These resources are available in the Tools section of the CCSSE website, including two key communication templates, the CCSSE Drop-In Overview Report Template and the CCSSE Drop-In Overview Presentation Template. Both templates include information applicable to the online and paper-and-pencil administrations. The Drop-In Overview presentation template includes a section on sharing results related to Guided Pathways.