NSSE对加拿大的大学进行了一个独特的教育质量调查，问题很独特但具有披露性，并与对美国大学的调查结果进行了比较，结果表明美国大学的教育效果整体而言比加拿大还是好一点，详情请见下文!
“Neither of those really tells you anything about teaching and learning on the campus,” says the professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Reputation is highly correlated with the wealth of an institution, while exam scores offer little indication of what happens after students are admitted. As director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), a North American survey offered annually since 2000, McCormick is most interested in improving higher education by asking current undergraduates about specific measures for levels of engagement on and off campus.
印第安纳州布鲁明顿大学教授表示，名声并不代表一个大学的教学效果，它只与一个学校的资产密切相关，在学生被录取后，成绩可能是另外一种现象。NSSE是北美一个自2000年开始的年度教育质量调查，作为NSSE的指导者，McCormick通过对在校大学生的调查了解一些特定的教学状况，之中帮助各高校改善教学质量。
With NSSE, approximately 100 questions are designed to evaluate best educational practices such as student-faculty interaction, collaborative learning and supportive campus environments, and give feedback to schools. How often have students attended an arts performance in the past year? How much of their course work emphasizes memorization? How often have they prepared two or more drafts of a paper before turning it in? How often do they ask another student for help with course material? How often have they had discussions with people of a different race? A different economic background? A different religious belief? If it all sounds extremely specific, that’s the goal. “We ask about activities and experiences that previous research has shown to be positively related to learning outcome,” McCormick says. The higher the score, the better the odds that undergrads are getting the most from university.
NSSE设计了大约100个问题来评估最好的教学方式，比如师生互动、合作学习和创建适宜的校园环境，并把这些信息反馈给各个学校。学生在去年多久去一次艺术展?他们有多少课程作业强调记忆?他们在提交论文前会写两次或两次以上的草稿吗?他们经常让其他学生帮助写作业吗?他们经常和不同种族、不同经济背景或不同宗教信仰的人讨论问题吗?McCormick说：“如果这些问题听起来很奇怪，那么我们的目的就达到了。我们之前调查得出了一些与好的学习效果相关的活动和经历，现在我们就是要问学生参与这些活动的频率。分数越高，大学生从学校所获得的东西可能就越多。
Overall, compared to our American counterparts—622 U.S. institutions took part in last year’s NSSE—Canadian schools didn’t appear to perform as well, says McCormick. Another overarching trend was: The bigger the university, the lower it tended to perform on student-faculty interaction.
去年NSSE也对622所美国大学进行了调查，总的来说，与美国大学相比，加拿大的大学调查结果并没有那么好。而且还有一个趋势是：越著名的大学，师生之间的互动率越低。
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