Steve Chatman

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Steve Chatman, Ph.D., directs the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project at the Center for Studies in Higher Education. SERU is a comprehensive survey of the undergraduate experience used by a consortium of 10 Association of American Universities member institutions and by the University of California as UCUES. His responsibilities include questionnaire design, survey administration, data management, and psychometric research for SERU.

Dr. Chatman has served as director of institutional research offices for about twenty years in a variety of settings, including a university system office, research university, and regional college. He has been active in the Association for Institutional Research at the national and regional levels throughout his career and has twice won the best paper award at the annual forum of the association. He was also responsible in 2001 for the first electronic survey of all undergraduates attending a large research university.

Recent publications by Dr. Chatman include a chapter, "Working with Large-Scale Climate Surveys: Reducing Data Complexity to Gain New Insights," in Campus Climate, Diversity, and Educational Benefits -- New Insights from Recent Research (Serge Herzog, Ed.), New Directions for Institutional Research, (Vol. 145) and an Association for Institutional Research Professional File Series paper, "Institutional Versus Academic Discipline Measures of Student Experience: A Matter of Relative Validity." Areas of research interest include affordability, academic assessment and program review, student research engagement, and the many dimensions of student diversity.

Recent Publications & Presentations

2011
No Evidence of Substantive Nonresponse Bias for the 2011 Administration by Steve Chatman. SERU Project Technical Report (November 2011)

Best Practices When Using Student Survey Results in Academic Program Review by Steve Chatman, SERU Project Technical Report (October 2011)

Wealth, Cost, and the Undergraduate Student Experience at Large Public Research Universities by Steve Chatman. CSHE.13.11 (October 2011)

2010
Engaged Learning in a Public University: Trends in the Undergraduate Experience.  Report on the Results of the 2008 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey by  Steven Brint, John Aubrey Douglass, Gregg Thomson, and Steve Chatman. CSHE.2.10 (February 2010)

2009
Factor Structure and Reliability of the 2008 and 2009 SERU/UCUES Questionnaire Core by Steve Chatman. SERU Project Technical Report (October 2009)

Measures of Nonresponse Bias Associated with the 2008 Administration of the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey by Steve Chatman. SERU Project Technical Report (2009)

Recognizing and then Using Disciplinary Patterns of the Undergraduate Experience: Getting Past Institutional Standards by Steve Chatman. CSHE.6.2009 (May 2009)

2008
Does Diversity Matter in the Education Process? An Exploration of Student Interactions by Wealth, Religion, Politics, Race, Ethnicity and Immigrant Status at the University of California by Steven Chatman. CSHE.5.2008 (March 2008).

2007
Report: A New Generation: Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Immigration and the Undergraduate Experience at the University of California. Steve Brint, John Aubrey Douglass, Richard Flacks, Gregg Thomson and Steve Chatman. CSHE.14.07 (September 2007)

Institutional Versus Academic Discipline Measures of Student Experience: A Matter of Relative Validity. Steve Chatman. CSHE.8.07. (May 2007)