Our Methodology
At the heart of the Student Experience Index (SEI) lies a simple but powerful philosophy: "One cannot improve what one cannot measure."We provide institutions with a scientifically structured framework to systematically measure, monitor, and act upon students' lived experiences and wellbeing.
The SEI Ecosystem: From Reflection to Institutional Action
The SEI is not just a test. It is an integrated behavioral measurement framework designed to establish a continuous feedback loop between students and institutions.
1. Student Reflection
Once a month, each student completes a structured SEI reflection, a scientifically designed 28–30 item instrument that captures their perceptions, affective states, and behavioral patterns across seven core domains.
2. AI-Generated Insights
Immediately after submission, the student receives a personalized AI-generated report. This report highlights domain-level patterns, temporal fluctuations, and individualized growth trajectories over previous months.
3. Institutional Data Stream
In parallel, aggregated and anonymized data points are transmitted to the institution's dashboard. These data streams enable administrators to monitor collective trends, domain-wise distributions, and risk trajectories in near real time.
4. Systematic Action & Iteration
Institutions can then act on these insights, enhancing support structures, optimizing engagement strategies, and measuring the downstream impact through longitudinal SEI trend comparisons.
What is the SEI?
The Student Experience Index (SEI) is a multi-domain, non-clinical self-reflection instrument engineered to quantify complex psychosocial constructs relevant to academic environments. Unlike traditional screeners that target a single variable (e.g., mood or stress), SEI captures a comprehensive behavioral-psychological profile.
It is deliberately designed to be both methodologically rigorous and operationally simple, enabling non-clinical stakeholders to interpret data in ways that drive real institutional change.
The 7 Core Domains of Experience
The 30 questions are systematically grouped into the following seven theoretically grounded domains, each representing a critical dimension of the student experience ecosystem:
- Cognitive Focus
- Emotional Energy
- Social Belonging
- Academic Engagement
- Behavioral Activation
- Support Perception
- Routine Consistency
Scoring & Quantification Framework
The SEI scoring architecture is intentionally designed to be transparent, interpretable, and actionable at scale. It translates subjective self-reflections into normalized, quantitative indicators of institutional health.
5-Point Likert Scale
Each item is rated on a 1–5 scale, capturing response intensity and frequency, and allowing for nuanced psychometric interpretation.
Domain-Level Scores
Each of the 7 domains receives a mean score (1–5), enabling targeted interventions at the most affected dimensions.
SEI Composite Index
Aggregated and normalized into a single composite SEI score, allowing longitudinal tracking and comparative analytics across cohorts, departments, or time periods.
Why This Matters
Traditional well-being measures often flag risk but fail to point toward actionable levers. SEI closes this gap by linking lived experience data directly to institutionally influenceable factors like engagement strategies, support systems, and environmental stability. This turns abstract feelings into structured data that can be measured, improved, and re-measured.
Our Ethical Positioning
Non-Clinical. Safe. Institutional.
We want to be unequivocally clear: the SEI is non-clinical, non-therapeutic, and non-diagnostic. It does not identify mental health disorders, nor does it replace the role of professional counselors or psychologists. Its purpose is to provide aggregated, ethically managed, and scientifically meaningful data that institutions can act upon.
All insights are anonymized and reported at the cohort level, ensuring student privacy and data integrity while empowering schools to create environments that promote focus, belonging, and resilience.