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ERIC Number: EJ743839
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 18
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0897-5264
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Do Liberal Arts Colleges Really Foster Good Practices in Undergraduate Education?
Pascarella, Ernest T.; Cruce, Ty M.; Wolniak, Gregory C.; Blaich, Charles F.
Journal of College Student Development, v45 n1 p57-74 Jan-Feb 2004
Researchers estimated the net effects of liberal arts colleges on 19 measures of good practices in undergraduate education grouped into seven categories. Analyses of 3-year longitudinal data from five liberal arts colleges, four research universities, and seven regional universities were conducted. Net of a battery of student precollege characteristics, whether or not a student was enrolled full-time and lived on campus, and the academic selectivity of the institution attended, liberal arts colleges evidenced stronger positive impacts on a broad range of empirically vetted good practices in undergraduate education than did either research universities or regional institutions. The impact was most pronounced in the initial year of postsecondary education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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