ERIC Number: EJ1163403
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Dec
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1938-8926
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High-Impact Practices and Student-Faculty Interactions for Gender-Variant Students
BrckaLorenz, Allison; Garvey, Jason C.; Hurtado, Sarah S.; Latopolski, Keely
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, v10 n4 p350-365 Dec 2017
The vast amount of research on student success and engagement in college focuses on a narrative for majority student populations that does not account for unique experiences across social identities. This article examines the experiences of gender-variant students (i.e., students who do not identify as either cisgender men or women) regarding engagement in high-impact practices and student-faculty interactions using a large-scale, multi-institution quantitative data set collected from the 2014 administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement. Although high-impact practice participation was similar for gender-variant and cisgender students, positive student-faculty interaction was found to be a significant predictor for increased high-impact practice participation for gender-variant students. Results from this study may also point to chillier climates of certain major fields for gender-variant students. Implications for these findings focus on investigating major choice as a mediating factor for high-impact practice participation and advocating for the inclusion of different gender identities in surveys, institutional data, and higher-education research.
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, At Risk Students, Sexual Identity, Statistical Analysis, Learner Engagement, College Freshmen, National Surveys, College Seniors, Student Surveys, Predictor Variables, Student Diversity, Student Experience, Correlation, Student Characteristics, Geographic Location, Intellectual Disciplines, Regression (Statistics), Majors (Students), Foreign Countries, Least Squares Statistics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; United States
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Survey of Student Engagement
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