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Download full textDouglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg; Zhao, Chun-Mei – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2012
The search for the Holy Grail to measure learning gains started in the US, but the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) wants to take it global. Here we tell a bit of this story and raise serious questions regarding the validity of the Collegiate Learning Assessment test and suggest there are alternatives. The merit of the…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Student Experience
Thomson, Gregg – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2011
This paper reviews the new directions in institutional research on undergraduate racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity at the University of California, Berkeley. The use of SERU/UCUES and other web-based census surveys has made possible more detailed and extensive analysis of student diversity. Included is research on an expanded number of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Institutional Research, Ethnic Groups, Student Diversity
Brint, Steven; Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg; Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project is a collaborative effort among academic scholars and institutional researchers devoted to collecting new data and providing policy-relevant analysis of exactly these questions. Its purpose is to study in depth the undergraduate experience and, at the same time, through systematic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Learner Engagement, Citizen Participation
Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2008
A number of national studies point to a trend in which highly selective and elite private and public universities are becoming less accessible to lower-income students. At the same time there have been surprisingly few studies of the actual characteristics and academic experiences of low-income students or comparisons of their undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, State Universities
Brint, Steve; Douglass, John Aubrey; Flacks, Richard; Thomson, Gregg; Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project is a collaborative effort of academic scholars, IR staff, and academic and administrative leaders at each of the UC (University of California) undergraduate campuses and at UCOP (University of California Office of the President). The objective is to develop new types of data and…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Student Experience, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity
Douglass, John Aubrey; Roebken, Heinke; Thomson, Gregg – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The University of California has long been a major source of socioeconomic mobility in California. Data from the University of California's Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) indicates that more than half the undergraduate students in the UC system have at least one parent that is an immigrant. The ratio is even higher at UC Berkeley. What do…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Race, Income, Immigrants
Flacks, Richard; Thomson, Gregg; Douglass, John; Caspary, Kyra – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2004
During the spring of 2002 and 2003, a team of faculty and institutional researchers conducted an innovative web-based survey on the undergraduate experience at all eight undergraduate campuses of the University of California. This report provides the first formal presentation of preliminary findings from that survey and discusses potential areas…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Research Universities, Student Experience, Learning Experience
