Research in Higher Education

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Merit-Based Student Aid and Freshman Interstate College Migration: Testing a Dynamic Model of Policy Change

Meechai Orsuwan, Ronald H. Heck

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 1 > 24-51

This study examines how state merit-based scholarships individually and simultaneously with prepaid tuition plans influence the interstate migration of college-bound freshmen. State freshman migration percentages were examined over a 10-year period. Results of an interrupted time-series model suggested that students generally respond to merit-based tuition aid in accordance with our initial prediction...

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Impact of Increased Academic Intensity on Transfer Rates: An Application of Matching Estimators to Student-Unit Record Data

William R. Doyle

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 1 > 52-72

The impact of increased academic intensity on transfer rates from community colleges to 4-year institutions has been estimated only from observational data, with the possibility of selection bias. This study uses matching estimators to overcome possible selection bias and estimate the causal impact of increased academic intensity on transfer rates. Using student unit record data from Tennessee for...

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Associations of Resource and Service Utilization, Risk Level, and College Outcomes

Steven Robbins, Jeff Allen, Alex Casillas, Adaeze Akamigbo, more

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 1 > 101-118

We tracked resource and service utilizations and first-year college outcomes for the entering first-year class (n = 1,534) at a traditional 4-year postsecondary institution. We grouped specific resources and services offered by the institution into four general categories (academic services, social resources, recreational resources, and advising sessions). We investigated the interrelation of risk,...

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The Contribution of HBCUS to the Preparation of African American Women for Stem Careers: A Case Study

Laura Perna, Valerie Lundy-Wagner, Noah D. Drezner, Marybeth Gasman, more

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 1 > 1-23

This study uses case study analysis to explore the ways that Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college, promotes the attainment of African American women in STEM fields. Although limited to one institution, the findings shed light on the ways that institutional characteristics, policies, and practices may mitigate the barriers that limit attainment of African American women in STEM fields...

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Profiling Teacher/Teaching Using Descriptors Derived from Qualitative Feedback: Formative and Summative Applications

Daphne Pan, Gary S. H. Tan, Kiruthika Ragupathi, Krishna Booluck, more

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 1 > 73-100

Considerable work has been done on student evaluation of teaching/teachers, but reservations remain about its use for summative purposes. Student ratings are not universally accepted as being reliable, nor can they provide really meaningful information. Qualitative comments can provide a better understanding but they tend not to be user-friendly from lack of structure and connectedness. This study...

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Comparing the Utility of the 2000 and 2005 Carnegie Classification Systems in Research on Students’ College Experiences and Outcomes

Alexander C. McCormick, Gary R. Pike, George D. Kuh, Pu-Shih Daniel Chen

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 2 > 144-167

This study compares the explanatory power of the 2000 edition of Carnegie Classification, the 2005 revision of the classification, and selected variables underlying Carnegie’s expanded 2005 classification system using data from the National Survey of Student Engagement’s spring 2004 administration. Results indicate that the 2000 and 2005 classifications generally offer comparable explanatory power...

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Effects of Exposure to Part-time Faculty on Community College Transfer

M. Kevin Eagan, Audrey J. Jaeger

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 2 > 168-188

Over the past several decades, one of the most significant changes in the delivery of postsecondary education involves the dramatic increase in the use of contingent or part-time faculty. Although the increased use of part-time faculty within higher education makes sense from an administrative point of view, its use does not come without criticism. With community colleges representing a more convenient,...

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Diversifying Science: Underrepresented Student Experiences in Structured Research Programs

Sylvia Hurtado, Nolan L. Cabrera, Monica H. Lin, Lucy Arellano, more

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 2 > 189-214

Targeting four institutions with structured science research programs for undergraduates, this study focuses on how underrepresented students experience science. Several key themes emerged from focus group discussions: learning to become research scientists, experiences with the culture of science, and views on racial and social stigma. Participants spoke of essential factors for becoming a scientist,...

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Going Global: Understanding the Choice Process of the Intent to Study Abroad

Mark H. Salisbury, Paul D. Umbach, Michael B. Paulsen, Ernest T. Pascarella

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 2 > 119-143

This study applies an integrated model of college choice to better describe students who do and do not intend to study abroad. Although internationalization through study abroad is widely touted as a preferred means of developing globally competent college graduates, very little is known about the factors that influence students’ predisposition to study abroad. This research explores the impact of...

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Situational and Personal Causes of Student Cheating

David A. Rettinger, Yair Kramer

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 3 > 293-313

The causes of students’ academic dishonesty behavior were explored using survey and experimental vignette methods. Participants were surveyed about their own cheating behavior, neutralizing attitudes, performance/mastery orientation and perceptions of peer attitudes and behavior. As predicted, neutralizing attitudes influenced cheating behavior directly, but also indirectly, increasing the effect...

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Strategies and Intervening Factors Influencing Student Social Interaction and Experiential Learning in an Interdisciplinary Research Team

Laura Ryser, Greg Halseth, Deborah Thien

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 3 > 248-267

Faculty have long incorporated students into interdisciplinary research projects to meet increasingly common demands for collaborative research by federal funding agencies. Despite the critical role of experiential learning in building student research skills and capacity, few have explored social interaction mechanisms used to facilitate student experiential learning in an interdisciplinary research...

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Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Graduate Geography Programs

Michael Solem, Jenny Lee, Beth Schlemper

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 3 > 268-292

This study explores how graduate students enrolled in M.A./M.S. and Ph.D. geography programs perceive the social and academic climate of their departments. A second objective is to understand how these students self-assess their own professional abilities, values, and goals, and whether these self-assessments differ across demographic and institutional contexts. The survey instrument for this research...

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A Simple Unifying Measure of State Support for Postsecondary Education

Philip A. Trostel, Justin M. Ronca

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 3 > 215-247

Conflicting measures of state support for postsecondary education create confusion and misunderstanding that convolute debates about states’ postsecondary education funding. The use of multiple measures is largely unnecessary, though. A simple single measure is constructed that adequately quantifies both states’ postsecondary need and states’ ability to pay. Specifically, this study proposes measuring...

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Successful Programs for Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: Adapting versus Adopting the Institutional Environment

Mary Frank Fox, Gerhard Sonnert, Irina Nikiforova

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 4 > 333-353

This article focuses upon programs for undergraduate women in science and engineering, which are a strategic research site in the study of gender, science, and higher education. The design involves both quantitative and qualitative approaches, linking theory, method, questions, and analyses in ways not undertaken previously. Using a comprehensive, quantitative, cross-institutional, and longitudinal...

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Bringing the Classroom to the Web: Effects of Using New Technologies to Capture and Deliver Lectures

Eric L. Dey, Helen E. Burn, David Gerdes

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 4 > 377-393

Technology expands instructional options for faculty, and this study examines the differential learning effects of offering a lecture on physics to students in a traditional classroom versus internet video formats. Based on an experiment conducted in a natural educational context, results indicate enhanced transfer of lecture information in the video formats relative to the live condition, with students...

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Influencing the Probability for Graduation at Four-Year Institutions: A Multi-Model Analysis

Kristina M. Cragg

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 4 > 394-413

The purpose of this study is to identify student and institutional characteristics that influence the probability for graduation. The study delves further into the probability for graduation by examining how far the student deviates from the institutional mean with respect to academics and affordability; this concept is referred to as the “match.” The validity of the matching model is tested using...

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Assessing Longitudinal Change: Adjustment for Regression to the Mean Effects

Louis M. Rocconi, Corinna A. Ethington

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 4 > 368-376

Pascarella (J Coll Stud Dev 47:508–520, 2006) has called for an increase in use of longitudinal data with pretest-posttest design when studying effects on college students. However, such designs that use multiple measures to document change are vulnerable to an important threat to internal validity, regression to the mean. Herein, we discuss a brief history of regression to the mean and illustrate...

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The Construct Validity of Student Engagement: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach

Steven M. LaNasa, Alberto F. Cabrera, Heather Trangsrud

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 4 > 315-332

As institutions seek to promote student engagement on campus, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) is increasingly being used to chart progress and compare results using the Five Benchmark Scores. While recent research has begun to decompose the five benchmarks in a variety of ways; few research studies have sought to explore the underlying structure of these five benchmarks, their interdependence,...

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Multi-Campus Studies of College Impact: Which Statistical Method is Appropriate?

Alexander W. Astin, Nida Denson

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 4 > 354-367

In most multi-campus studies of college impact that have been conducted over the past four decades, investigators have relied on ordinary least squares (OLS) regression as the analytic method of choice. Recently, however, some investigators have advocated the use of Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM), a method specifically designed for analyses that involve both individual (student) and aggregate...

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Getting on the Front Page: Organizational Reputation, Status Signals, and the Impact of U.S. News and World Report on Student Decisions

Nicholas A. Bowman, Michael N. Bastedo

Research in Higher Education > 2009 > 50 > 5 > 415-436

Recent studies have suggested that a causal link exists between college rankings and subsequent admissions indicators. However, it is unclear how these effects vary across institutional type (i.e., national universities vs. liberal arts colleges) or whether these effects persist when controlling for other factors that affect admissions outcomes. Using admissions data for top-tier institutions from...

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COLLEGE ADMISSIONS (2)
COLLEGE CHOICE (2)
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RETENTION (2)
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TRANSFER (2)
ABILITY TO PAY (1)
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (1)
ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS (1)
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY (1)
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT (1)
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (1)
ATTRITION (1)
BACCALAUREATE ATTAINMENT (1)
BEGINNING POSTSECONDARY STUDY (BPS) (1)
BLACK COLLEGES (1)
CANADA (1)
CARNEGIE CLASSIFICATION (1)
COLLEGE EFFECTS (1)
COLLEGE ENVIRONMENTS (1)
COLLEGE FACULTY (1)
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COLLEGE OUTCOMES (1)
COLLEGE PERSISTENCE (1)
COLLEGE TEACHING (1)
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COMMUNITY COLLEGES (1)
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COMPLETED CREDIT HOURS (1)
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CONSTRUCT VALIDITY (1)
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DISCIPLINARY CULTURE (1)
DISCRIMINATION (1)
DISTANCE LEARNING (1)
DROPOUT (1)
ENGINEERING (1)
EQUITY (1)
EVENT HISTORY ANALYSIS (1)
EXPECTATIONS ABOUT FINANCIAL AID (1)
FACULTY (1)
FACULTY CLIMATE (1)
FINANCIAL AID PACKAGES (1)
FIRST-GENERATION (1)
FORMATIVE EVALUATION (1)
FRESHMAN COLLEGE MIGRATION (1)
FUNDING (1)
GENDER INEQUITIES (1)
GEOGRAPHY (1)
GLASS CEILING (1)
GLOBALIZATION (1)
GRADUATE EDUCATION (1)
GRADUATE SCHOOLS (1)
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GROWTH MODELING (1)
HIERARCHICAL GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELING (1)
HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODELING (1)
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HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH (1)
HOLLAND’S THEORY (1)
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INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS (1)
INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS (1)
INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE (1)
INSTITUTIONAL RETENTION (1)
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY (1)
INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM (IPEDS) (1)
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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH (1)
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Research in Higher Education

Merit-Based Student Aid and Freshman Interstate College Migration: Testing a Dynamic Model of Policy Change

Impact of Increased Academic Intensity on Transfer Rates: An Application of Matching Estimators to Student-Unit Record Data

Associations of Resource and Service Utilization, Risk Level, and College Outcomes

The Contribution of HBCUS to the Preparation of African American Women for Stem Careers: A Case Study

Profiling Teacher/Teaching Using Descriptors Derived from Qualitative Feedback: Formative and Summative Applications

Comparing the Utility of the 2000 and 2005 Carnegie Classification Systems in Research on Students’ College Experiences and Outcomes

Effects of Exposure to Part-time Faculty on Community College Transfer

Diversifying Science: Underrepresented Student Experiences in Structured Research Programs

Going Global: Understanding the Choice Process of the Intent to Study Abroad

Situational and Personal Causes of Student Cheating

Strategies and Intervening Factors Influencing Student Social Interaction and Experiential Learning in an Interdisciplinary Research Team

Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Graduate Geography Programs

A Simple Unifying Measure of State Support for Postsecondary Education

Successful Programs for Undergraduate Women in Science and Engineering: Adapting versus Adopting the Institutional Environment

Bringing the Classroom to the Web: Effects of Using New Technologies to Capture and Deliver Lectures

Influencing the Probability for Graduation at Four-Year Institutions: A Multi-Model Analysis

Assessing Longitudinal Change: Adjustment for Regression to the Mean Effects

The Construct Validity of Student Engagement: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Approach

Multi-Campus Studies of College Impact: Which Statistical Method is Appropriate?

Getting on the Front Page: Organizational Reputation, Status Signals, and the Impact of U.S. News and World Report on Student Decisions

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