Campus Activities

The National Association for Campus Activities (NACA), in partnership with EBI, has created the NACA/EBI Student Organization Leader Assessment to provide administrators with a very clear sense of student leader perceptions about their experience. Results can be effectively utilized to focus attention on strengths and areas in need of improvement. The new NACA/EBI partnership was formed to develop assessments based on CAS standards to measure the effect that student activities and organizations have on student learning.

• Focus on Learning Outcomes: Theses surveys will capture how student activities and organizations impact student learning – evaluating the real impact on overall academic performance and social integration.
• Comparative Analysis: Provides an effective means of confidentially comparing your activities’ and organizations’ effectiveness with six participating schools you select, schools in your Carnegie Class and the total participant group. The perspective of comparison on three levels allows you to calibrate your performance, and capitalize on “best practices”.
• Impartial Analysis of Your Programs: Provides an in-depth analysis of your activities’ and organizations’ effectiveness with a focus on learning and behavioral change. These assessments will offer an objective picture of current outcomes.
• Evidence to Initiate Change: Analysis results provide evidence to support changes to improve your activities and organizations and longitudinal analysis tracks your progress.
• Identify What Impacts Effectiveness: The Custom Statistical Analysis Report (CSAR) is a unique analysis option that identifies the degree to which each of the assessment factors impact overall effectiveness. This information will allow you to focus energy and resources on objectives that have the greatest impact on improving effectiveness and the success of your students.

The NACA/EBI Assessments are supported by research on:

• Retention
• Best practices in student learning
• Human development theory
• Learning theory

Specifically, questions address learning and behavioral change, campus activities, development skills/abilities, relationships and self perception, effectiveness and the bottom line: the overall effectiveness of the experience.

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