Active and Collaborative Learning
The following responses were provided by 787 randomly selected Santa Clara University first-year (FY) and senior students on the 2008 NSSE Survey
How often do students ask questions in class or contribute to class discussions?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Very Often | 35% | 24% | 48% | 38% |
How often do students work on a paper or of project that required integrating ideas or information from other sources?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Very Often | 37% | 32% | 58% | 46% |
How often do students work with classmates outside of class to prepare class assignments?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Often | 46% | 30% | 38% | 34% |
| Very Often | 19% | 12% | 43% | 24% |
How often do students say you put together ideas or concepts from different courses when completing assignments or during class discussion?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Very Often | 22% | 15% | 31% | 27% |
How much solving of complex real-world problems did student report experiencing?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Very Much | 26% | 22% | 36% | 26% |
How much did students feel they contributed to the welfare of their community?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Very Much | 28% | 18% | 34% | 20% |
How much did students feel they worked effectively with others?
| Response | Santa Clara FY Students | NSSE 2008 | Santa Clara Seniors | NSSE 2008 |
| Very Much | 43% | 33% | 58% | 42% |
