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Download full textArum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa; Cho, Esther – Social Science Research Council, 2011
The authors have systematically investigated the state of undergraduate learning in contemporary colleges and universities. Following several thousand traditional-age students as they enrolled in coursework from Fall 2005 to Spring 2009, across a wide range of four-year colleges and universities, the authors found a set of conditions suggesting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Study, Educational Indicators, College Outcomes Assessment
Peer reviewedFitz Gibbon, Heather M.; Canterbury, Richard M.; Litten, Larry – College and University, 1999
Argues for adopting the concept of colleges and universities as "total institutions," noting the importance of such characteristics as isolation, activities, location, unity of focused goals, and opportunities for student development. Implications of these considerations and characteristics for student recruitment, admissions, student orientation,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, College Environment, College Freshmen
Ewell, Peter T.; Jones, Dennis P. – 1985
The costs of assessment, which was identified as a condition for achieving excellence in undergraduate education by the Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education, are addressed. Two questions considered deal with (1) the unit of analysis and (2) what to count. The unit of analysis can be the individual student,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cost Estimates, Higher Education
Parrett, William H. – Small School Forum, 1984
Educational frameworks to accommodate rural America are designed around the concept of smallness and incorporate basic skill development through programed instruction, individual projects, use of volunteers, cross-age tutoring, and computer study. Other areas of focus include community involvement, practical skills, familiarization with the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Support, Competency Based Education, Cross Age Teaching
Smart, John C.; McLaughlin, Gerald W. – 1985
Changes in the academic and social self-concept and the civic and business orientations of students who attended different types of institutions were studied longitudinally. Data were obtained from a Cooperative Institutional Research Program survey of 4,621 freshmen entering college in 1971 and a followup of those students graduating in 1980.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizen Participation, College Freshmen, College Graduates
