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Cognard-Black, Andrew J.; Spisak, Art L. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021
Despite a long tradition of social science research on educational access and barriers to inclusion for underrepresented minorities and the poor, until recently such issues have gotten relatively little attention in quantitative investigations of honors education. Public interest in educational access has grown in recent years, however, energizing…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Case Studies
Cognard-Black, Andrew J.; Spisak, Art L. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2019
This study uses data from the 2018 "Student Experience in the Research University" (SERU) Survey of undergraduate degree-seeking students to develop a profile of an honors student. Nineteen research universities participated in the 2018 SERU Survey, with a resulting sample size of almost 119,000 undergraduate students, of whom 15,280…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics, Honors Curriculum, Advanced Students
Spisak, Art L.; Van Horne, Sam; Hornbuckle, Keri C. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
Many assume that moving honors students into separate sections adversely affects the academic performance of non-honors students, an assumption the authors faced at their institution. In the context of a study done in a college of engineering, that perception is even stronger because peer-to-peer and group projects are such important pedagogical…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
Spisak, Art L.; Squires, Suzanne Carter – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
High-ability entering college students give three main reasons for not choosing to become part of honors programs and colleges; they and/or their parents believe that honors classes at the university level require more work than non-honors courses, are more stressful, and will adversely affect their self-image and grade point average (GPA) (Hill;…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Honors Curriculum, Academic Achievement, Program Attitudes