College Student Inventory Report

Description
The College Student Inventory was first developed by Michael L. Stratil in 1971 and revised to incorporate changes based off of statistical analysis and published by Noel-Levitz in 1988. Its cost to provide the college student inventory to entering students is $7.55 per student. In researching the publisher website it does not give specifics as to who can administer this assessment but it does give the student a report upon completing with instructions to go to their academic or career advisor to help interpret the results.
Purpose
The target population is first year undergraduate college students. The College Student Inventory was “designed to assess 'a variety of motives and background information related to college success,'
Upon entering the inventory, it asks for the student to submit their personal information, then it is followed by a series of multiple choice questions in a Likert format. Some of the questions asked are based on high school courses and gpa, employment, parent education, career, major, study habits, etc. The inventory did offer the student the option of “prefer not to answer”. Upon completion of the College Student Inventory the data is immediately available in their Retention Data Center, in four different reports.
Student Report—Shows students their strengths and needs in easy-to-understand language.
Advisor/Counselor Report—Provides detail to make advising/counseling conversations more personal, meaningful, and effective.
Coordinator Report—Delivers key information for intervention and administration to survey coordinators.
Summary and Planning Report—Provides critical cohort and individual student information for retention strategies and planning.
Strengths and
I do have knowledge of the dissemination of this inventory due to my teaching of one of the first year seminar courses in which we were to highly encourage the student to participate. I did have a call in to our first year seminar data researcher, but did not obtain a response in regards to where the data is stored and who has access to it. I would recommend to CSU, Bakersfield to specify to the First Year Seminar instructors instructions as to the importance of this inventory in order to recommend this Assessment without any qualms. I would have appreciated knowing what they do with this information so I could have informed the students as to the importance of the assessment versus my telling them it must be important to the campus since they have told us to bring this up to you the student on multiple