University
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SAREO
Student Assessment,
Research, and Evaluation Office
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& Evaluation Each year, SAREO conducts in-depth studies of student attitudes and behavior. Information is generally collected through telephone surveys of random samples of University of Massachusetts students (although other forms of data collection have been used). One example is the Cycles Survey, a study repeated annually since 1975 which examines levels of satisfaction with student services and the general quality of life on campus. Another example is the ACE/CIRP Freshman Survey on the expectations of first-year students prior to entering the University, conducted under the auspices of the American Council on Education's Cooperative Institutional Research Program. This survey has been administered to all first-year students for the past twenty-five years. SAREO also provides a wide range of program evaluation services to the offices within Student Affairs. Because these efforts are based on the individual client's needs, they are quite diverse: assisting in the identification of evaluation goals and needs, proposing a research plan, drawing samples for data collection, designing survey instruments, conducting data analysis, and interpreting and reporting existing data.
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