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Mu, Lanlan; Cole, James – Research in Higher Education, 2019
Several recent studies have successfully identified college student typologies based on individuals' behaviors. One limitation of past studies has been their reliance on one-time cross-sectional assessments. As a result, we are left to ponder the stability of students' behavioral types as their academic years move forward. This study used…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, College Students, Classification, Longitudinal Studies
Cole, Darnell; Kitchen, Joseph A.; Kezar, Adrianna – Research in Higher Education, 2019
There are few accounts in the higher education literature of mixing methods at the survey design stage and very little guidance targeting higher education researchers and practitioners who want to implement a mixed methods approach to design survey tools. This article explores an eight-step, iterative, mixed methods approach for creating a…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, College Students, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys
Choi, Yool – Research in Higher Education, 2018
This study explores how student employment affects college persistence and how these effects differ by individual likelihood of participating in student employment. I analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 using propensity score matching and stratification-multilevel analysis. This study finds that engaging in intense…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Academic Persistence, College Students, Dropouts
Alvarado, Steven Elías; Muniz, Paul – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Previous research suggests that racial and ethnic disparities in postsecondary STEM outcomes are rooted much earlier in the educational pipeline. One possible remedy to these disparities is participation in early STEM enrichment programs. We examine the impact of MESA, which is an early program that targets socioeconomically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Enrichment Activities, High School Students
Zhao, Yue; Huen, Jenny M. Y.; Chan, Y. W. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
This study pioneers a Rasch scoring approach and compares it to a conventional summative approach for measuring longitudinal gains in student learning. In this methodological note, our proposed methodology is demonstrated using an example of rating scales in a student survey as part of a higher education outcome assessment. Such assessments have…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scoring, Comparative Analysis, Summative Evaluation
Shamsuddin, Shomon – Research in Higher Education, 2016
Many students enroll in less selective colleges than they are qualified to attend, despite low graduation rates at these institutions. Some scholars have argued that qualified students should enroll in the most selective colleges because they have greater resources to support student success. However, selective college attendance is endogenous, so…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, College Students, Bachelors Degrees, Probability
Flynn, Daniel – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Vincent Tinto originally asserted, "… it is the individual's integration into the academic and social systems of the college that most directly related to his continuance in that college" (Tinto, "Review of Educational Research" 45(10): 89-125, 1975), yet the rates of college degree attainment are still stagnant.…
Descriptors: College Students, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment, Colleges
Niu, Sunny X.; Tienda, Marta – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Using a longitudinal sample of Texas high school seniors of 2002 who enrolled in college within the calendar year of high school graduation, we examine variation in college persistence according to the economic composition of their high schools, which serves as a proxy for unmeasured high school attributes that are conductive to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Time to Degree, Institutional Characteristics, School Demography
Kim, Jiyun – Research in Higher Education, 2012
This study explores the relationship between state financial aid policies and postsecondary enrollment for high school graduates (or equivalent diploma holders). Utilizing an event history modeling for a nationally representative sample from the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS:88/2000) in addition to state-level policy variables, this…
Descriptors: Race, Family Income, College Choice, State Aid
Mayhew, Matthew J. – Research in Higher Education, 2012
This multi-level, longitudinal study investigated the ecumenical worldview development of 13,932 students enrolled in one of 126 institutions. Results indicated that the final hierarchical linear model, consisting of institution-and-student-level predictors as well as slopes explaining the relationships among some of these predictors, explained…
Descriptors: College Students, World Views, Student Development, Longitudinal Studies
Bryant, Alyssa N. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
Based upon a national longitudinal dataset of 14,527 college students generated by the UCLA Spirituality in Higher Education Project, this study used structural equation modeling to test the applicability of a model of ecumenical worldview development for students of diverse genders, races, and worldviews. The model suggests that challenging…
Descriptors: World Views, Structural Equation Models, Religious Factors, Gender Differences
Bryant, Alyssa N. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
Using a national longitudinal sample of 14,274 college students generated as part of the UCLA Spirituality in Higher Education Project, this study employed structural equation modeling to analyze how students develop an ecumenical worldview. The findings suggest that challenging co-curricular experiences and the salience of religion and…
Descriptors: World Views, Structural Equation Models, Religious Factors, College Environment
Bowman, Nicholas A.; Small, Jenny L. – Research in Higher Education, 2010
College student spiritual development constitutes an important, yet understudied topic in higher education research. In particular, very little is known about whether and how this development varies among students from diverse religious backgrounds. Using a longitudinal sample of 14,527 students from 136 institutions, the current study explored…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Religion, Spiritual Development, Religious Factors
Rocconi, Louis M.; Ethington, Corinna A. – Research in Higher Education, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Scores, College Students, Longitudinal Studies
Saenz, Victor B.; Ngai, Hoi Ning; Hurtado, Sylvia – Research in Higher Education, 2007
This study explores the various factors that promote positive interactions across race for African American, Asian American, Latino, and White college students. A longitudinal survey was administered to all incoming students at nine public institutions (with a follow-up survey given at the end of their second year), examining activities related to…
Descriptors: African American Students, Asian American Students, Hispanic American Students, White Students