A pair of Learning Behaviors & Learning Spaces questionnaires developed by Scott Bennett asked students and faculty members to:

  • Identify which specific intentional learning behaviors—mostly drawn from the National Survey of Student Engagement—were important to them.
  • Say whether their campus provided space that supported the learning behaviors they identified as important.
  • Specify which non-classroom spaces on their campus were supportive of learning.

Students and faculty members responded in notably different ways. Their responses enable planners to map the distinctively supportive learning spaces across campus.

Research Reports

Designing for Uncertainty: Three Approaches

Survey results from one liberal arts college, along with other related survey data, were reported in Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33.2 (2007): 165–179.

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Learning Behaviors and Learning Spaces

Six institutions used the questionnaires between 2006 and 2009. The resulting findings, value, and space-planning implications were published in portal: Libraries and the Academy, 11.3 (July 2011): 765–789.

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The six surveys produced substantially more data than could be included in the published article. The complete supporting data and related materials follow.

1. Survey Instruments

1.1 List of learning behaviors 1.2 List of learning spaces

2. Summary of Survey Findings

2.1 Institutional profiles 2.2 Student demographics 2.3 Faculty member demographics 2.4 Responses to Question 1, by institution (Chart 1) 2.5 Responses to Question 1, by learning behavior (Chart 2) 2.6 Responses to Question 2, by learning behavior (Chart 3) 2.7 Responses to Question 2, by institution (Chart 4) 2.8 Responses to Question 3, by institution (Chart 5)

3. Survey Data Underlying the Summary Findings

3.1a Student responses to Question 1 3.1b Faculty member responses to Question 1 3.2a Student responses to Question 2 3.2b Faculty member responses to Question 2 3.3 Statistically significant z scores for responses to Question 3

4. Statistical Analysis of Question 3 Responses

4.1a/b College A: Student and faculty member responses to Question 3 4.2a/b College B: Student and faculty member responses to Question 3 4.3a/b University C: Student and faculty member responses to Question 3 4.4a/b University D: Student and faculty member responses to Question 3 4.5a/b University E: Student and faculty member responses to Question 3 4.6a/b University F: Student and faculty member responses to Question 3

5. Instructions for Participating Institutions

5 Instructions for institutions using the questionnaires

6. Secondary Questionnaire

A secondary questionnaire was used to assess the value of the learning behaviors surveys to those who initiated them.

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