"The NILIE team could not have been more helpful to us. They worked closely with us to provide an instrument that helped us learn more about the climate at our college. The reliable information provided through the PACE Survey gave us a snapshot of employee attitudes that enabled us to put in place effective strategies to address important issues."
Open Ended Comments: To Require or Not To Require? Poncheri & Thompson, 2007
This study explores reactions and responses to open-ended questions on Web-based surveys. An experimental design is used to examine the effects of requiring participants to answer open-ended questions. Findings show that requiring these responses increases perceptions of item importance and the number of usable comments without increasing negative affective reactions.
Institutional Effectiveness in Higher Education: Factor Analysis of The Personal Assessment of College Environment Survey Instrument Tiu, 2001
The purpose of this study is to identify the factor structure of the underlying organizational conditions that are responsible for the perception of campus climate as measured by the PACE instrument. The factor analysis study indicates that a five-factor model emerges. The central themes of these five constructs are managerial behavior, institutional structure, student needs and development, team work, and meaningful work and task control.
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