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Paul D. Umbach Jeremy B. Tuchmayer Ashley B. Clayton Kathleen N. Smith 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(9):599-617
ABSTRACTThis paper investigates community college transfer success by exploring the relationship between individual and institutional-level characteristics at students’ two- and four-year institutions. Using statewide administrative data from North Carolina, this study employs a cross-classified multilevel model to investigate the impact that a student’s community college and four-year transfer institution have on post-transfer success. Our findings offer important and compelling insights into the relationship between transfer students, the community college they attended, the four-year transfer institution, and educational outcomes. While individual effects were small, we find several institutional factors associated with student success. Attendance at a large community college or having a public university in the same county as their community college is positively associated with student success, whereas size of the university is negatively related to grades during the first year and persistence to the second year. While the four-year institution’s selectivity is negatively related to many of our outcomes, transferring to a Historically Black College or University is positively associated with GPA, college persistence, and degree completion. 相似文献
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This study applies Kalleberg’s framework to better understand the effects of diverse demographic faculty characteristics on
dimensions of job satisfaction. We also extend his work and the work of others to explore the contextual effects of academic
disciplines on faculty job satisfaction. We find that women are consistently less satisfied than their male colleagues and
that the effect of being female varies by discipline on levels of job satisfaction. We also find race/ethnicity has mixed
effects on dimensions of job satisfaction but the effects of race/ethnicity tend to be constant across discipline. Our findings
hold important implications for those seeking to understand the experiences of college faculty from diverse demographic backgrounds. 相似文献
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How Do Academic Departments Impact Student Satisfaction? Understanding the Contextual Effects of Departments 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Using multilevel modeling to analyze survey data from more than 1,300 alumni from a large research university, this study examines the impact that academic departments have on student satisfaction and development. Controlling for individual characteristics, we found that characteristics of departments such as faculty contact with students, research emphasis, and proportion of female undergraduates had a significant impact on satisfaction with education in the major and the perceived impact that college had on skill development. 相似文献
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Paul D. Umbach Megan M. Palmer George D. Kuh Stephanie J. Hannah 《Research in higher education》2006,47(6):709-733
Scrutiny of intercollegiate athletics has intensified in recent years. This study compares student-athletes with those of non-athletes in terms of their engagement in effective educational practices. Contrary to many reports in the popular media, the findings from this study indicate that, on balance, student-athletes across a large number of colleges and universities do not differ greatly from their peers in terms of their participation in effective educational practices. In most instances, when differences do exist, they favor athletes. 相似文献
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Axel Mayer Nora Umbach Barbara Flunger Augustin Kelava 《Structural equation modeling》2017,24(4):556-570
In this article, we present an approach for comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of interventions based on nonlinear structural equation mixture models (NSEMM). We provide definitions of average and conditional effects and show how they can be computed. We extend the traditional moderated regression approach to include latent continous and discrete (mixture) variables as well as their higher order interactions, quadratic or more general nonlinear relationships. This new approach can be considered a combination of the recently proposed EffectLiteR approach and the NSEMM approach. A key advantage of this synthesis is that it gives applied researchers the opportunity to gain greater insight into the effectiveness of the intervention. For example, it makes it possible to consider structural equation models for situations where the treatment is noneffective for extreme values of a latent covariate but is effective for medium values, as we illustrate using an example from the educational sciences. 相似文献
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Technological advances have enabled institutions of higher education to administer course evaluations online, forgoing the traditional paper-and-pencil methods. Consequently, many of these institutions suffer from low response rates, but little research is available on this topic. To increase understanding about course evaluation participation in the online environment, this study examined over 22,000 undergraduates to whom the university administered about 135,000 evaluations. Multilevel models were constructed to analyze the data, and several variables emerged as significant predictors of participation. The results were mostly consistent with previous research and aligned with theories of survey nonresponse. However, the integration of uncommon variables provided new perspectives about course evaluations in particular. Implications for research and practical applications for institutions are also addressed, including ways to combat survey fatigue, increase the salience of the survey, and increase participation in online course evaluations. 相似文献
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This study uses college student survey data and corresponding administrative data on campus recreation facility usage, academic performance, physical education class attendance, and co-curricular participation to examine nonresponse bias in college student surveys. Within the context of the Groves (Public Opin Q 70:646–675, 2006) Alternative Cause Model, we found compelling evidence of the presence of nonresponse error observed as student characteristics related to the survey topic that also explain their response propensity. An individual’s survey response propensity has a statistically significant relationship with their actual behavior for 2 of 3 survey topics. In 11 of the 13 survey questions used to measure the survey topic behaviors, we found statistically significant differences between the respondent and nonrespondent behavioral measures. These findings hold important implications for survey researchers and those using student surveys for high-stakes accountability measures because survey summary statistics may not be generalizable to the target population.
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Paul D. Umbach 《Research in higher education》2006,47(3):317-345
Using data from a national study of 13,499 faculty at 134 colleges and universities, this study explores the impact of faculty
of color on undergraduate education. This study finds compelling evidence to suggest that faculty of color do provide an important
contribution to undergraduate education in two ways. First, faculty of color employ a broader range of pedagogical techniques
and interact more frequently with students than their White counterparts. Second, greater structural diversity among faculty
leads to an increased use of effective educational practices. 相似文献
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Using data from a survey of more that 1900 first-year students at a large research institution, this paper applies Holland's theory of personality and environment to examine the ways in which students view diversity. Holland categories, individual characteristics such as race and gender, and interactions with people of color prior to college, significantly predict students' beliefs and attitudes about issues related to diversity at the time that they enter college. 相似文献
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Paul D. Umbach 《Research in higher education》2007,48(2):169-192
This study uses hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to analyze the effect of human capital, structural characteristics of the
discipline, and disciplinary labor market conditions on faculty salaries. Faculty in disciplines characterized by relatively
low demand, high teaching loads, and low amounts of research funding earn less than do faculty in other disciplines. Additionally,
even after controlling for an array of individual and disciplinary characteristics, women faculty members earn less than their
male peers. 相似文献