A longitudinal assessment of college student engagement in good practices in undergraduate education

The purpose of this study was to determine whether student engagement in th ree good educational practices (cooperation with peers, active learning, fa culty-student interaction) increased between 1983 and 1997 in response to t he calls to improve the quality of undergraduate education in the United St ates. The data source was 73,050 students who completed the College Student Experiences Questionnaire. The results from multiple regression and effect size analyses showed that the frequency of involvement in these good pract ices did not change over time. Variation in the scores of the three indicat ors across years and types of institution (doctoral-granting universities, comprehensive universities, liberal arts colleges) was minimal indicating a stable pattern with only random fluctuations during this 15 year period.