Assessing Conditions to Enhance Educational Effectiveness: The Inventory for Student Engagement and Success

by George D. Kuh, Jillian Kinzie, John H. Schuh

From the authors of Student Success in College ―the book that describes the policies, programs, and practices of twenty colleges and universities that have created success-oriented campus cultures and learning environments―comes the next-step resource to help an institution assess whether these conditions exist. The authors present the Inventory for Student Engagement and Success (ISES), a self-guided framework for conducting a comprehensive, systematic, institutionwide analysis. The process also can be applied to areas within an institution, such as a school or college within a university, an academic or student affairs division, or a department or program. The ISES includes sets of diagnostic queries that focus on the six properties and conditions common to high-performing schools as well as the five clusters of effective educational practices featured on the National Survey of Student Engagement. Suggestions are offered to illustrate how the information generated from the ISES process can be used for various purposes including accreditation self-studies, program reviews, staff development, faculty and governing board retreats, and strategic planning.

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2005

Reviews

[Margie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perfectly fine, I guess.
It requires that one also reads Student Success In College, as it references the book regularly.
It's quite thorough and quantifiable, but on such a large scale that it's definitely not what I was looking for. If I were a dean at a small college, this might be ideal. As a small cog in a large university wheel, this is too theoretical and addresses such large-scale concerns that it's not really useful to me.

[Elizabeth Giordano · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book at a conference for a silent auction. I didn’t know this was a companion book to another so I have purchased the other in order to glean more insight on this! It is great for people in higher education looking for ways to assess the institution and their practices.