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Markle, Gail; Stelzriede, Danelle Dyckhoff – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
This study examined how factors associated with student development and persistence differ between first-generation and continuing-generation students and how participation in a learning community influences development and persistence. The findings show that first-generation students were less involved in academics and had lower gains in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, First Generation College Students, Intellectual Development, Academic Persistence
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Deeley, Susan J. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Service-learning is a form of experiential learning that combines academic coursework with voluntary service in the community. There is a dearth of critical analysis of the effects of service-learning. To address this issue, this practitioner research aimed to explore and understand its effects. An inductive approach, using qualitative and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Experiential Learning, Comparative Analysis
Wurtz, Joseph F. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The main research question of this study was: How do student life offices at four diverse Catholic colleges and universities create an environment that is expressive of a Catholic way of life? This research question was operationalized by two research sub questions: How do senior student affairs officers, mid-level student affairs officers, and…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Bohr, Louise; And Others – 1994
This study investigated the relative freshman-year cognitive impacts of 2 historically black and 16 predominantly white colleges on black students. Of these institutions, 5 were 2-year institutions and the rest were 4-year colleges. The data were taken from a pool of 2,416 freshmen students who participated in the National Study of Student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Students, Cognitive Development
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
Kim, Mikyong – 1996
This study investigated the comparative capacity of women-only and co-educational colleges to impact on two dimensions of women students' intellectual development: (1) intellectual self-confidence; and (2) critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The study also attempted to isolate the effect of attending women-only colleges from other…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Freshmen, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
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Luczynski, Jan – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Examines whether differences in the functional strategies of texts written by English-speaking children of concrete and low formal operations levels of intelligence also exist in texts written by Polish-speaking children. Studies fifth and eighth grade elementary school children. Concludes that formal operational subjects were better able to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developmental Stages, Differences
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1990
This report summarizes the results and presents statistical data (two-thirds of the report) of a 1988 followup national survey concerning the impact of different types of college environments on development of 1984 and 1986 freshmen. The survey involved the following general categories: satisfaction with college, talent development during college,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Course Selection (Students)