As part of the 2012 NSSE administration, a set of experimental items asked first-year and senior students at selected institutions about skills and experiences that matched questions on the SNAAP questionnaire.
For the purposes of this study, only data from those institutions that participated in both the 2011 SNAAP administration and the additional item set on the 2012 NSSE administration were used.
In contrast, the next two sets were developed for SNAAP and are on the SNAAP core survey, but were added to NSSE as additional questions appearing at the end of the core NSSE survey.
SNAAP aims to provide the first national data on how artists develop in this country, help identify the factors needed to better connect arts training to artistic careers and allow education institutions, researchers and arts leaders to look at the systemic factors that helped or hindered the career paths of alumni, whether they have chosen to work as artists or pursue other paths.
