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Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – Journal of College Student Development, 1996
Investigated the relative cognitive impacts on black students' attendance at historically black colleges versus predominantly white colleges. Using numerous data types, found that black students attending black colleges did as well or better than their counterparts at the white institutions on standardized measures of writing skills and science…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Institutions, Blacks
Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – 1994
This study investigated the relative freshman-year cognitive impacts of five two-year and six four-year colleges and universities drawn from all sections of the United States. The overall sample was 2,685 freshmen students participating in a national longitudinal study and of these the final sample contained 811 students, 280 attending five…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests