{"id":21,"date":"2014-07-03T15:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:26:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-03-26T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:58","slug":"21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/2014\/07\/03\/21\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment Scale for STEM Undergraduate Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"Precious Hardy<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Mara Aruguete<\/span><\/a> at Lincoln University of Missouri have presented a promising assessment tool in \u201cNeeds Assessment in STEM Disciplines: Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Student Support Needs Scale (SSNS),\u201d published in a 2014 issue of <\/span>Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education<\/span><\/em><\/a>. The scale assesses six areas of support from the student and institution: Knowledge, Performance, Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Tools\/Environment, and Feedback. In tests of reliability and validity, the instrument demonstrates positive relationships between the SNSS score and both overall and major GPA. The authors are encouraging college and universities to administer the tool to STEM students, especially minority students, to pinpoint support weaknesses and guide spending of funds to improve retention of STEM undergraduates.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nI was hoping the academic libraries would be represented in the Tools\/Environment section, but we are only vaguely there in the 19th<\/sup> statement to be answered with a Likert scale: \u201cThe university has many institutional processes that promote success in my major\u201d (p. 557). Looks like we need to better market libraries as a major source of support for all students, as important as career advising, which is specifically mentioned in the instrument. I\u2019ll keep researching for ways librarians can support STEM retention efforts, and posting them here for you to use as selling points. \u00a0Please share any marketing approaches you\u2019ve used to put your library on the radar for retention support.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Precious Hardy and Mara Aruguete at Lincoln University of Missouri have presented a promising assessment tool in \u201cNeeds Assessment in STEM Disciplines: Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Student Support Needs Scale (SSNS),\u201d published in a 2014 issue of Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 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