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Wolniak, Gregory C.; Engberg, Mark E. – Research in Higher Education, 2010
This study aims to improve our understanding of the postsecondary impacts of high schools by investigating whether or not exposure to different high school contexts may explain academic performance once in college. Drawing on a sample of 3,750 participants from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, descriptive and multivariate analyses…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Academic Achievement
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Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi; Soldner, Matthew; Longerbeam, Susan D.; Leonard, Jeannie Brown – Research in Higher Education, 2008
This study involved the development of the first empirical typology of living-learning programs and its use in the assessment of students' learning outcomes. Using two-step cluster analysis with data from nearly 300 living-learning programs at 34 U.S. postsecondary institutions, the authors identified three "structural" types of programs: (a)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Multivariate Analysis, Higher Education