Studies & Instruments

360° leadership analytics

Specified feedback tools and systems encourage reflection and elicit higher performance. Through a confidential, web-based survey administration, we solicit feedback on a variety of areas and provide a comprehensive analysis in a final report.

• For administrators

  Tailored for presidents, vice presidents, provosts, and deans, this tool gathers impressions on leadership styles, personal characteristics, job performance, and ratings of confidence in leadership abilities. It also identifies areas for improvement observed by core constituents and combines those with the self-assessment results to gain a holistic view of perceptions of performance.

  Benefits and features:

  • Summary ratings of overall job performance and confidence in the administrator
  • Includes statistics about rater responses to each question
  • Produces a report of responses to open-ended comments
  • Provides the ability to include up to five additional questions to customize the instruments for your institution
  • Optional rater subgroup results
  • Automated initial and reminder email notifications to the administrator being rated and other eligible raters
  • Allows for campus-specified start and end dates for online survey availability

• For chairs

  Prepare customized plans for professional development based on priorities determined by the chair. Core constituent results are combined with a self-assessment by the chair to gain a holistic view of all results.

  Benefits and features:

  • Customize analysis based on the priority level the chair assigns to each responsibility
  • Interactive web-based reports
  • Statistical information about faculty responses to each question, including summary ratings of overall effectiveness
  • Provides the ability to include up to five additional questions to customize the instrument for your institution
  • Gap analysis allows reflection on comparisons of self-ratings to those of faculty
  • Analyze chair strengths and areas for improvement
  • Use recommendations and direct links to development resources
  • Automated initial and reminder email notifications to the participants
  • Allows for campus-specified start and end dates for online survey availability

Comprehensive advising inventory

Gather information and perceptions on advisor efficacy, rating comparisons between advisors, and thoughts for improving the overall academic experience. Choose to administer one or all of the three distinct feedback offerings to gain a holistic view of perceptions on advising at your institution.

• Student perceptions of advising

  Understand the student perspective on the overall advising experience as well as their self-reported progress on advising-related learning outcomes. The survey items align with CAS standards for academic advising and CAS learning and development outcomes. Information gathered from your reports can be beneficial as part of an academic advising program review and/or accreditation report.

  Benefits and features:

  • Recommendations for improvement and areas of strength
  • Students’ responses to the top three sources of information and the most highly valued sources
  • Comparison of your institution’s average to other institutions in our database
  • Students’ self-perception of progress on learning objectives related to advising
  • Comparisons between use of resources and the value students perceive from those resources
  • Provides the ability to include up to five additional questions to customize the instrument for your institution
  • Automated initial and reminder email notifications to the chair being rated and other eligible raters
  • Allows for campus-specified start and end dates for online survey availability

• Faculty and staff perceptions of advising

  Understand the faculty and staff perspective from those with direct academic advising experience, as well as their self-reported progress on advising-related learning outcomes. The survey items align with CAS standards for academic advising, and information gathered from your reports can be beneficial as part of an academic advising program review and/or accreditation report.

  Benefits and features:

  • Top suggestions for improvement
  • Faculty and staff perceptions of the three student advising practices emphasized by your institution and three program standards
  • Comparison of your institution’s average to the other institutions in our database
  • Provides the ability to include up to five additional questions to customize the instrument for your institution
  • Automated initial and reminder email notifications to the participants
  • Allows for campus-specified start and end dates for online survey availability

• Student Feedback about their specified advisor

  Advisors put themselves in the spotlight by gathering feedback from students about their academic advising experience. Survey responses are enhanced by contextualizing results to personal experiences and the institution’s academic advising goals, objectives, and practices. Focus on the formative value of the feedback and benefit from links to NACADA development resources directly related to your survey results.

  Benefits and features:

  • Includes a snapshot of your advisees’ self-reported behavior and progress on learning outcomes related to advising
  • Provides contextual information about student motivation and behavior
  • Provides the ability to include up to five additional questions to customize the instrument for your institution
  • Comparisons between the use of resources and the value students perceive from those resources
  • Student’s perception of their advisor’s practices that are shown to be related to student success
  • Comparison of your institution’s average to the other institutions in our database
  • Automated initial and reminder email notifications to the participants
  • Allows for campus-specified start and end dates for online survey availability

Learn more about Anthology advising surveys

Benchmarking studies

See how far you’ve come and understand new ways to move your institution forward. Measure your success against national and peer data to more easily evaluate your programs, identify areas for improvement, and set relevant goals for strategic planning.

• Project CEO (Co-Curricular Experience Outcomes)

  How do you ensure your students are ready to go from campus to career? Help ensure your programs and services increase student skill attainment by building off Project CEO. This important national benchmarking study highlights the most desirable soft skills for college students, as identified by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

  Through Project CEO, you can:

  • Gather data to showcase key learning and job competencies gained through co-curriculars and off-campus employment
  • Compare progress of skills, including teamwork, workflow planning, decision-making, verbal communication, and problem solving
  • Increase buy-in for developing programs while uncovering the value of a holistic learning experience

• Student affairs benchmarking studies

  Obtain actionable campus-specific data and benchmarking data to shape and enhance programming. We offer a series of student affairs benchmarking studies focused on several areas of an institution, ranging from career services to mental health to campus activities.

  Want to participate?

  Institutions with Anthology® Baseline: Sign up using the link in the Benchmarks tab within Baseline.
  Institutions without Anthology Baseline: Contact our Professional Services team about administering a survey to reveal key insights.