The Impact of College on Students: The Nature of the Evidence.

Pascarella, Ernest T.

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ERIC Number: EJ436015

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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The Impact of College on Students: The Nature of the Evidence.

Pascarella, Ernest T.

Review of Higher Education, v14 n4 p453-66 Sum 1991

Substantive and methodological problems encountered in a five-year synthesis of research on college impact are discussed, including general issues in higher education research and scholarship, relevance of assessments of student change, unnoticed indirect effects of college experience, inattention to individual differences, validity of common indicators, and long-term impacts. (MSE)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Educational Benefits, Higher Education, Intellectual Development, Meta Analysis, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Student Development, Student Experience

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Teachers; Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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