First-Year Self-Assessment

The First-year Self-Assessment survey is conducted using Qualtrics, industry leading survey research administration software. It is designed to gather standard information on students' expectations for Drexel, self-assessed skills, and attitudes about college life. It is administered in the weeks just prior to and after undergraduate students first arrive at Drexel. 

The survey was developed collaboratively determined by staff across the EMSS Division, and by the Survey Liaison Group that was first convened in the fall of 2013 by the Office of Institutional Research (OIR). The Survey Liaison Group members were appointed by the deans, and consist of representatives from each of the centers, schools and colleges of the university. The purpose of the working group is to facilitate easy and consistent communication among and between the colleges as well as to serve as conduits to OIR for all matters related to the development and refinement of the surveys and the process. 

The data from this survey are not currently included within the data reporting plan to schools and colleges, but are rather used to inform the process by which the University monitors student non-retention risk.