North Carolina State University
2007 First-Year Student Survey:
Rank Ordering of Goal Development and Importance
This document contains tables depicting the rank order of development and importance ratings for each general education, personal development, and world view goal, both for all respondents and by gender and race/ethnicity.
| Goals | Rank Order: Current level of development/goal importance |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Women | Men | AfAm | White | Other | |
| Valuing racial equity | 1/8 | 1/7 | 2/9 | 1/2 | 2/8 | 1/2 |
| Valuing gender equity | 2/9 | 1/9 | 3/11 | 2/6 | 2/10 | 2/6 |
| Taking responsibility for behavior | 3/2 | 3/2 | 1/3 | 3/6 | 1/2 | 3/5 |
| Learning as lifelong | 4/15 | 4/13 | 4/15 | 5/16 | 4/16 | 5/12 |
| Acting upon ethical principles | 5/11 | 5/10 | 6/13 | 7/16 | 5/11 | 6/10 |
| Function as part of a team | 6/14 | 6/20 | 5/11 | 6/16 | 6/14 | 9/20 |
| Interact with diverse people | 7/17 | 6/12 | 10/21 | 4/11 | 7/18 | 4/14 |
| Understanding own abilities and interests | 8/9 | 9/10 | 8/8 | 10/11 | 8/8 | 10/10 |
| Being independent and self-reliant | 9/5 | 11/3 | 9/5 | 15/13 | 8/5 | 12/6 |
| Tolerance for different views | 10/23 | 8/16 | 14/27 | 9/19 | 10/23 | 8/14 |
| Good listening skills | 11/21 | 10/21 | 17/20 | 16/8 | 11/21 | 11/22 |
| Realizing my potential for success | 11/7 | 16/7 | 12/6 | 8/2 | 12/7 | 16/6 |
| Having self-discipline | 13/2 | 13/3 | 15/2 | 14/4 | 12/2 | 12/2 |
| Clarifying personal identity | 14/18 | 13/13 | 16/21 | 12/19 | 14/17 | 14/21 |
| Plan/carry out project indep. | 15/16 | 11/18 | 23/15 | 20/25 | 14/15 | 17/19 |
| Having self-confidence | 16/4 | 21/5 | 13/4 | 13/4 | 17/4 | 22/2 |
| Commitment to health and fitness | 17/13 | 19/13 | 17/14 | 22/23 | 16/12 | 26/16 |
| Apply mathematics skills | 18/27 | 28/31 | 7/15 | 24/27 | 18/26 | 14/28 |
| Broad general education | 19/19 | 18/21 | 23/18 | 18/21 | 20/19 | 20/16 |
| Improving leadership/management skills | 19/12 | 17/16 | 25/9 | 19/10 | 18/12 | 25/13 |
| Understand scientific influence | 21/29 | 29/34 | 11/24 | 24/32 | 21/29 | 17/29 |
| Develop computer skills | 21/28 | 25/30 | 19/26 | 17/26 | 23/28 | 17/30 |
| Critically analyze info. | 23/25 | 22/27 | 21/24 | 26/28 | 21/25 | 22/26 |
| Understand diverse cultures | 24/30 | 13/26 | 29/34 | 10/22 | 25/31 | 6/27 |
| Coping with change | 25/20 | 27/19 | 21/23 | 21/24 | 24/19 | 20/22 |
| Good reading comp. skills | 26/25 | 24/25 | 29/29 | 27/13 | 26/27 | 29/24 |
| Communicate ideas orally | 27/21 | 26/23 | 28/19 | 29/15 | 27/22 | 30/16 |
| Handling stress | 28/6 | 33/6 | 20/7 | 27/8 | 28/6 | 28/9 |
| Appreciation of the arts | 29/35 | 19/32 | 32/35 | 23/35 | 29/35 | 24/35 |
| World problems/issues | 30/24 | 32/24 | 27/28 | 31/30 | 30/24 | 27/24 |
| Involved with public/community affairs | 31/31 | 23/28 | 34/33 | 30/31 | 31/30 | 33/32 |
| Apply scientific principles | 32/34 | 35/35 | 26/30 | 35/34 | 32/34 | 31/33 |
| Present as it relates to history | 33/33 | 34/32 | 31/31 | 33/33 | 33/33 | 32/34 |
| Managing my time | 34/1 | 29/1 | 33/1 | 34/1 | 34/1 | 34/1 |
| Communicate in writing | 35/32 | 29/29 | 34/32 | 32/29 | 35/32 | 34/31 |
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Dr. Nancy Whelchel, Associate Director for Survey Research
Office of Institutional Planning and Research
Box 7002
NCSU
Phone: (919) 515-4184
Email: Nancy_Whelchel@ncsu.edu
Posted: March, 2008
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