Inside Higher Ed: "Recently, a series of reports and criticisms have emerged suggesting that NSSE is a flawed instrument upon which to build corrective actions even for use within a single campus. References to effective practices related to student learning saturate NSSE's literature and provide the 'scientific' foundation for many of its claims. However, a surprisingly large number of these assertions are built on correlational studies from the 1970s and 1980s, and many of NSSE's assertions have not been subject to rigorous analysis."