Jean Chen
Carmen Williams
Zhangmin Liu
Office of Institutional Research
May 16, 2005
A paper format
Sophomore Satisfaction Survey (SSS) initiated in 1993 gave
the University of North Dakota the capacity to determine
sophomore’s satisfaction with their experiences at
UND. The survey is intended to extract a variety of information
from the students including issues such as: overall satisfaction
with the university experience, student involvement, cognitive
and affective development, technological uses, as well as
their goals to study and graduate from UND. This survey instrument
had been used subsequently in 1996, 1999, and 2002. (UND
Institutional Review Board approval # IRB-200502-254)
In spring
2005, a specific Sophomore Satisfaction Survey website and web-based
survey were developed and facilitated
by the Office of Institutional Research. This is the first
time an online survey has been used with our sophomores.
On March 2, 2005, an invitation from the Office of Institutional
Research was electronically mailed to 508 sampled sophomores
to inform them about the SSS hosting website and the SSS
instrument. On this email, a special password was assigned
to each respondent to insure access was limited to the
sampled population. On March 4, a 48-hour postcard announcement
was
sent to those sophomores with undeliverable email address
along with those who had not yet participated. Four more
email follow-up reminders were sent on March 8, March 22,
and March 29. Of the adjusted number of the sampled population
(448 sophomores), 216 sophomores returned completed questionnaires
by the end of the data collection period on April 19, 2005.
It yielded a net response rate of 48.0%.
A total of 216 sophomores
consisting of 99 males, 116 females, and one respondent
who did not report his/her gender participated
in this survey. The majority of the respondents to the
2005 Sophomore Satisfaction Survey were white (97.6%), twenty
years or younger in age (87.7%), and unmarried (97.1%).
Among 216 respondents, 65 were majoring
in the College of Arts and Sciences (30.2%), 35 from the
College of Business & Public
Administration (16.3%), 33 from the School of Aerospace Sciences
(15.3%), 24 from the College of Nursing (11.2%), 18 from
the College of Education & Human Development (8.4%),
16 from the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (7.4%),
10 from the School of Engineering & Mines (4.7%), 14
were undecided majors (6.5%), and 1 did not report his/her
academic college.
About 40 percent of the respondents (38%
of males and 41% of females) lived in the UND residence
halls or university
apartments. Forty-eight percent of the respondents (47.9%)
were from North Dakota, 31.3% from Minnesota, 19.1% from
other states and a total of 0.9 % of the sophomore students
were from Norway and United Kingdom. |
