Active learning and student engagement
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is the most comprehensive assessment of effective practices in higher education. The results for Maharishi University of Management:
Seniors’ responses put Maharishi University of Management among the top bachelor’s and master’s institutions nationally in NSSE’s “benchmarks of effective educational practice,” based on data from a total of 135,000 students at 613 colleges and universities, surveyed between 2000 and 2002.
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is co-sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning.
- Understanding yourself
- Understanding people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds
- Asked questions in class or contributed to class discussions
- Made a class presentation
- Developing a personal code of values and ethics
- Contributing to the welfare of your community
- Environment encourages contact among students from different backgrounds
- Environment helps you cope with your non-academic responsibilities
- Independent study or self-designed major
- Learning effectively on your own
- Had conversations with students who differ from you in terms of values
- Quality of relationships with other students
- Culminating senior experience
- Used an electronic medium to discuss or complete an assignment
- Put together ideas or concepts from different courses
- Received prompt feedback from faculty on your academic performance
- Discussed grades or assignments with an instructor