benchmarks and these benchmarks are: active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, and support for learners. The benchmark of refers to the active and collaborative learning student’s opportunity to collaborate with others to solve problems, master content, and develop the skills needed to address real-life situations and problems. The benchmark student effort represents how behaviors contribute to their learning and achievement of goals. students’ is the third CCSSE benchmark and it considers the assigned Academic challenge academic work, academic rigor, and the cognitive tasks required of students. The importance of is an assessed benchmark, with student and faculty interaction an expectation that positive student-faculty interactions will lead to faculty becoming mentors and role models. The fifth benchmark is According to the support for learners. 2015 CCSSE, this benchmark addresses the importance of student satisfaction with available support services and the cultivation of positive relationships throughout the campus. As depicted in Table 8, the 2015 CCSSE for HVCC reveals that student responses for the five benchmarks do not rise to the level of the 2015 top-performing colleges. When compared to all other community colleges that utilized the survey in 2015, HVCC student responses score the college a bit higher than peer institutions in the areas of active and collaborative learning, academic challenge, and student-faculty interaction. Table 8 HVCC Community College Survey of Student Engagement, 2015
benchmarks and these benchmarks are: active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, and support for learners. The benchmark of active and collaborative learning refers to the student’s opportunity to collaborate with others to solve problems, master content, and develop the skills needed to address real-life situations and problems. The student effort benchmark represents how students’ behaviors contribute to their learning and achievement of goals. Academic challenge is the third CCSSE benchmark and it considers the assigned academic work, academic rigor, and the cognitive tasks required of students. The importance of student and faculty interaction is an assessed benchmark, with an expectation that positive student-faculty interactions will lead to faculty becoming mentors and role models. The fifth benchmark is support for learners. According to the 2015 CCSSE, this benchmark addresses the importance of student satisfaction with available support services and the cultivation of positive relationships throughout the campus. As depicted in Table 8, the 2015 CCSSE for HVCC reveals that student responses for the five benchmarks do not rise to the level of the 2015 top-performing colleges. When compared to all other community colleges that utilized the survey in 2015, HVCC student responses score the college a bit higher than peer institutions in the areas of active and collaborative learning, academic challenge, and student-faculty interaction. Table 8 HVCC Community College Survey of Student Engagement, 2015