Paradise Valley Community College; 18401 North 32nd Street; Phoenix, Arizona, 85032
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Academic Challenge

Description - Challenging intellectual and creative work is central to student learning and collegiate quality. Ten survey items address the nature and amount of assigned academic work, the complexity of cognitive tasks presented to students, and the standards faculty members use to evaluate student performance.
 

2005 Benchmark Data

2007 Benchmark Data

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Benchmark Scores
  PVCC Large Colleges 2007 CCSSE Cohort
  2005 2007 2005 2007 2005 2007
All Students 46.0 44.4 50.3 49.8 50.0 50.0
 

Academic Challenge


2005 2007
Worked harder than you thought you could to meet an instructor's standards or expectations
Analyzing the basic elements of an idea, experience, or theory
Synthesizing and organizing ideas, information, or experiences in new ways
Making judgments about the value or soundness of information, arguments, or methods
Applying theories or concepts to practical problems or in new situations
Using information you have read or heard to perform a new skill
Number of assigned textbooks, manuals, books, or book-length packs of course readings
Number of written papers or reports of any length
Mark the box that best represents the extent to which your examinations during the current school year have challenged you to do your best work at this college
Encouraging you to spend significant amounts of time studying