ABSTRACT
This chapter subjects to critical review of annual surveys of the student experience in higher education that are national significance in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and which have a public information purpose. National significance includes surveys mandate by the governments of Australia and the United Kingdom, and the National Survey of Student Engagement in the United States which, although not mandated, has nevertheless accrued wide-ranging institutional commitment. Engagement interpreted here is primarily in the narrow sense of student's attitudes and behaviours, though aspects of engagement that relates in one way or another to institutional provision that are acknowledged. Space considerations preclude the inclusion of instruments focusing exclusively on the first-year experience on the grounds that they are undertaken largely for institutional and sectoral purposes. Surveys of the student experience are well-established in the higher education landscape and continue in the development to accommodate evolving needs.
