Office of Educational Assessment
Reports
The OEA Reports Series provides summaries of research and assessment findings. Please contact us to request copies of reports for which links are not available.
Recurring Assessment Surveys
University-wide Studies
UW Seattle Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Study 2019, a mixed methods study identifying which students are less likely to persist and graduate from UW, challenges they face, and facilitators of their success. This study is an extension of and expansion on the results of the UW Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Study 2014. |
UW Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Study 2014, a mixed methods study to learn which groups of students are more likely to leave the UW than others and why |
UW Academic Challenge and Engagement Study (UW ACES), a summary of 33 departmental studies on academic challenge in the major with links to departmental reports |
Undergraduate Student Work Life at the University of Washington, a mixed methods study examining the place of work in the lives of UW students |
UW Senior Research Study (UW SRS), a focus group study examining the research experience of seniors in fifteen academic majors |
UW Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW SOUL), a four-year study tracking 304 undergraduates through their years in college |
UW Growth in Faculty Teaching Study (UW GIFTS), a study of how often faculty make changes in their teaching, what those changes are, and why they make them |