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Report Title | Brief Description | Sponsoring Department | Summary Report | Completed |
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Student Leadership and Involvement Study | Student Life Studies administered an electronic survey with students in the spring 2017 semester. The survey focused on skills students gained through their college experience and what specific experiences are contributing to those skills. | Student Life Studies | Summary-Report-two-pager-DSA-Leadership-Involvement-Study.pdf | 02/13/2019 |
Fish Camp Participant Assessment - Summer 2022 | According to its website (http://fishcamp.tamu.edu/mission/), Fish Camp strives to “welcome freshmen into the Aggie Family by sharing the traditions and values of Texas A&M University and building long-term relationships that embody the Aggie spirit.” Fish Camp operates as a student organization and is housed in the Department of Student Activities. This year, eight sessions were held in person from July 23rd through August 9th, 2022. Fish Camp used to be a four-day camp at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center in Palestine, TX. However, starting in 2021, and continuing in 2022, Fish Camp was shortened to three days. Fish Camp leaders and advisors wanted to understand the participants’ camp experience and how Fish Camp affected, if at all, the start of the fall semester for those who attended. Fish Camp has worked with Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research to assess participants’ camp experience since 2000. | Student Activities | Summary-Report-Fish-Camp-2022-Participant-Survey.pdf | 04/12/2023 |
Graduate and Professional Student Government International Graduate Student Assessment 2022 | The Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) wanted to assess the experience of international graduate and professional students at Texas A&M to identify areas in which GPSG could help improve their student experience and quality of life at Texas A&M. More specifically, GPSG wanted to understand international graduate students’ experiences as they encounter processes unique to international students, like the I-20 processes, using the Terra Dotta system, and processes in applying and participating in Optional Practical Training (OPT). GPSG leadership contacted Student Life Studies (SLS) in the fall of 2021 to assist them in creating and distributing the survey to international graduate students attending Texas A&M University in spring 2022; this is the second time SLS has assisted GPSG with this assessment. The following report summarizes those results. | Student Organization | 2022-International-Graduate-Student-Assessment-GPSG-summary-report.pdf | 04/19/2022 |
SAPAR Client Focus Groups - Summer 2022 | One goal for Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) is to provide quality assessment services to facilitate client planning and decision-making. To measure this goal and associated outcomes, the department conducted focus groups with clients to understand the effectiveness and quality of the services offered. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research conducts focus groups approximately every three years to learn about clients’ experiences working with the department. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research will use the data collected to improve services provided to the Division of Student Affairs (DSA). The department has been conducting focus groups every three years since the summer of 2009. | Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research | Report-2022-Focus-Groups.pdf | 02/01/2023 |
Health Promotions STAND UP Overview and Workshop Evaluations 2021-2022 | Health Promotions within Student Life offers workshops providing educational support for the STAND Up campaign on the Texas A&M University campus inviting Aggies to Step In and Stand Up against sexual harassment and sexual violence. In 2021-2022, two separate programs were offered: The STAND Up Overview, an hour-long presentation intended to provide general information about the impacts of trauma related to experiencing power-based personal violence, and the STAND Up workshop, a three and one-half hour, in-person workshop designed to provide a more thorough understanding of impacts of trauma related to experiencing power-based personal violence. Surveys were distributed at the end of the Overviews and STAND Up workshops to measure participants’ learning and satisfaction. The attached report summarizes the results of the assessments of both the STAND UP overview and workshops. | Student LIfe | STAND_UP-Summary_2021-22-Final-Summary-Report.pdf | 11/10/2022 |
Health Promotions - Sex in the Dark Workshop 2021-2022 | The Sex in the Dark workshop, conducted by Health Promotion (HP), is designed to increase students’ knowledge of their sexual health. Learning outcomes developed for Sex in the Dark workshop include: • Participants will report increased knowledge of healthy sexual behaviors. Surveys were developed to measure participants’ learning, as well as gauge participants’ overall impression of the program and perceptions of the facilitators of the program. Programs offered in 2021-2022 were both in-person and virtual. The attached report summarizes the results of the survey. | Student LIfe | Sex-in-the-Dark-2021-2022-Summary-Report.pdf | 11/21/2022 |
Hullabaloo U Lesson - My Aggie Wellness Journey 2022-2023 | Student Life Health Promotion (HP) staff offered 2022 Hullabaloo U instructors a series of 40-minute lessons to facilitate as part of the Hullabaloo U curriculum during their fall 2022 courses. The first lesson, My Aggie Wellness Journey, was intended to be delivered between August 24, 2022, and September 30, 2022. Students participating in the lesson were offered an open link or a QR code to access a survey at the end of the lesson, which assessed whether the students met the learning outcomes and whether they were receptive to and participated in lesson activities. The attached report summarizes the results of the assessment. | Student LIfe | Hullabaloo-U-2022-My-Aggie-Wellness-Journey-Summary-Report.pdf | 12/12/2022 |
Green Dot Bystander Intervention Overview & Training Evaluations 2021-2022 | According to its website (greendot.tamu.edu), Green Dot is an international movement built on the premise that individuals can systematically and measurably reduce the levels of power-based personal violence found in their community. Students, staff and faculty who participated in the Texas A&M Green Dot Bystander Intervention training classes and the Green Dot Overview virtual workshops were surveyed to assess the programs and how attending affected participants’ understanding of concepts related to power-based personal violence. The attached report summarizes the results of those assessments. | Student LIfe | 2021-22-Green-Dot-Training-and-Overview-Summary-Report.pdf | 11/30/2022 |
DSA Awards Committee Awards Nomination Experience Assessment FA 2022 | The Division of Student Affairs Awards Committee wanted to understand how the DSA Awards nomination process was perceived by DSA staff in an effort to increase the number of award nominations. Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) assisted the committee in developing a survey to assess the DSA staff about the nomination process; the attached report summarizes the results of that survey. Response rate was 47%. | Other | DSA-Awards-Experience-Summary-Report-2022.pdf | 11/22/2022 |
Counseling and Psychological Services Suicide Prevention Training - Jan 2021-Aug 2022 | Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) provides suicide awareness and prevention training workshops for students, faculty, and staff. CAPS wanted to know if participants were learning the information covered during the training and their comfort level in talking about suicide to others. Additionally, CAPS wanted to understand what participants thought about the training and how to improve it in the future. This was the first time Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research assisted CAPS in assessing their suicide awareness and prevention training. | Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) | Suicide-Training-Summary-Report.pdf | 09/27/2022 |
2022 The Big Event Community & Participant Surveys | Two surveys were created to understand how students were impacted by participating in The Big Event (TBE), and how members of the Bryan/College Station community reacted to their experience with The Big Event during Spring 2022. The feedback collected was from both the community members who registered for a job and the student participants who registered. This report covers the responses from both groups. This was the 17th time Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) helped TBE committee in assessing community members or student participants’ experiences with TBE. | Student Organization | Big-Event-2022-Evaluations-Summary-Report.pdf | 09/28/2022 |
I-Week 2022 | The International Festival, known as I-Week, is a weeklong festival and Texas A&M’s largest cultural celebration. It is designed to bring cultural awareness to those attending as well as to serve as a platform for cultural organizations and individuals to share their home cultures with the Texas A&M community. This year, I-Week took place on March 28-April 1, 2022, and consisted of a variety of events including I-Exhibit, I-Story, I-Dinner, I-Show, I-Art, and I-Awards. International Student Association (ISA) wanted to assess attendees for any activity during the weeklong event. This is the second year that Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (formerly Student Life Studies) worked with the International Student Association to assess this annual program. | Memorial Student Center | Summary-Report-I-Week-2022.pdf | 08/30/2022 |
Rec Sports Climbing Wall Focus Group - Spring 2022 | The department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports or the Rec) strives to serve all Texas A&M students. The Outdoor Adventures staff recognized that they did not have female students use the climbing wall at the same level as male students. They wanted to understand why female students did not use the climbing wall and what staff could do to encourage more female students to utilize the facilities. To understand the experiences of female students, a focus group was conducted with female students who regularly utilized the Rec Center but did not use the climbing wall regularly. While Outdoor Adventures has worked with Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) before, this was the first time for this specific project. | Recreational Sports | Summary-Report-for-Climbing-Wall-Report.pdf | 09/06/2022 |
Student Conduct Conferences 2021-2022 | The Student Conduct Office (SCO) wanted to assess students’ experience with and the learning from their conduct conferences to continue to improve how their office works with students in the future. The Student Conduct Office previously used a national survey to assess students’ experience, but the questions did not focus on the priorities identified by the unit. This is the second year Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) assisted SCO in assessing the conduct conferences. | Vice President for Student Affairs | Conference-Survey-2021-2022-Summary-Report.pdf | 08/23/2022 |
Student Leader Inclusive Learning Outcomes 2021-2022 | Student Affairs Planning, Assessment & Research (SAPAR) and staff from the Department of Student Activities met with student leaders from multiple sponsored and affiliated Texas A&M University student organizations to gain input in developing student leader learning outcomes. These outcomes associated with the Texas A&M University undergraduate learning outcomes practice personal and social responsibility and demonstrate social, cultural and global competence. Then related learning outcomes were conceived and written in conjunction with student leaders to more closely relate to their experiences as a student leader within their organizations. In April, an assessment was created to gain insight from student organization leaders about experiences within their student organizations within the last academic year as they related to these learning outcomes. | Student Activities | Summary-Report-StuAct-Student-Leader-Inclusive-Learning-Outcome-project.pdf | 06/23/2022 |
Report Title | Brief Description | Sponsoring Department | Summary Report | Completed |