Community College Libraries & Academic Support for Student Success Survey, United States, 2018 (ICPSR 37864)

Version Date: Sep 21, 2020

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Principal Investigator(s):
Melissa Blankstein, Ithaka S + R; Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Ithaka S + R; Braddlee, Northern Virginia Community College

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37864.v2

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  • V2 [2020-09-21]
  • V1 [2020-09-21] unpublished
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Summary

The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS) student survey is part of a multi-phase project which has been funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) [RE-96-17-0113-17]. Seven community colleges participated in their own customized instance of the CCLASSS student survey. The questionnaire covers topics in several key areas including students' personal and professional goals and objectives, as well as unique challenges students face in achieving these goals.

A series of service concepts was tested to determine how valuable a variety of services might be for students. These service concepts include: the aid of a social worker; the ability to borrow and access various technologies; child care services; civic engagement opportunities; workshops on digital privacy issues; access to a single point of contact for navigating college services broadly; access to a personal librarian; and opportunities to display and share coursework. All respondents randomly received four out of eight of the service concepts. Demographic variables in this study include age, race, and gender.

Citation

Blankstein, Melissa, Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine, and Braddlee. Community College Libraries & Academic Support for Student Success Survey, United States, 2018. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-09-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37864.v2

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Funding

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) (RE-96-17-0113-17)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

Other

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2018-10-15 -- 2018-12-13

Date of Collection

2018-10-15 -- 2018-12-13

Data Collection Notes

  1. Public report of findings is available on the Ithaka S+R website.

  2. In the P.I. provided questionnaire documentation, coded values are in parentheses (i.e. "(10)"). For matrix and multi-select questions, the variable names are below each item/statement in parentheses (i.e. "(Q1_1)"). Display logic, which signifies that a question was only presented to those who satisfied a condition in their response to another question, is highlighted in blue. This text was not visible to respondents within the questionnaire.

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Study Purpose

The Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS) survey was intended to closely examine students personal and professional goals and objectives, as well as unique challenges students face in achieving these goals. We also investigated the value of several service concepts that could be implemented or improved upon within the seven community colleges, for which resources had already been allocated for at the outset of the project, or other community colleges more broadly.

Study Design

Seven community colleges participated in their own customized instance of the Community College Libraries and Academic Support for Student Success (CCLASSS) student survey. The questionnaire covers topics in several key areas including students' personal and professional goals and objectives, as well as unique challenges students face in achieving these goals. A series of service concepts was tested to determine how valuable a variety of services might be for students. These service concepts include: the aid of a social worker; the ability to borrow and access various technologies; child care services; civic engagement opportunities; workshops on digital privacy issues; access to a single point of contact for navigating college services broadly; access to a personal librarian; and opportunities to display and share coursework. All respondents randomly received four out of eight of the service concepts.

Sample

The population for this survey is community college credit and non-degree/workforce students who are of 18 years of age or older. The students invited to participate in this survey were from Northern Virginia Community College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx Community College, LaGuardia Community College, Monroe Community College, Pierce College, and Queensborough Community College.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

This study covers students from seven community colleges within the United States.

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

Variables include information on participants' goals, how likely participants are to use various college services, and what kinds of degrees participants are pursuing.

Response Rates

The response rate for this survey was 11.58 percent.

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Original Release Date

2020-09-21

Version History

2020-10-05 Updating to remove PI with last name only, due to problems creating DOI.

2020-09-21 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
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Notes