Table of Contents
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Student Learning/Participation
1. Small Classes and Student Behavior
(Is there an explanation for how class size affects student achievement?)
2. Psychological Assessment of API College Students
(Do we have a valid instrument for detecting mental health problems among Asian and Pacific Islander college students?)
3. A Study of Distress Among Chicana College Students
(What factors strain the female college student of Mexican ancestry?)
4. An Instrument for Measuring Classroom and School Community
(Whether you are analyzing face-to-face instruction or online instruction, how can analysts measure the degree that students feel "connected" to a class and to a school?)
Teaching and Faculty
5. Teacher Immediacy's Effect on Student Learning
(How does an instructor's behavior in class influence how students do in school?)
6. Does the Online Course Take More Faculty Effort?
(How accurate is the widespread faculty belief that the online course demands more work from the instructor in comparison to the traditional face-to-face course?)
Workforce Development
7. Predictors of Dental Hygiene Test Results
(What are valid predictors of success among dental hygiene students?)
Strategic Planning
8. Future Generations of Immigrant Populations
(How big will the demand for higher education be in 2030?)
Research Methods
9. Tips on Reporting P-Values
What can go wrong when you cite the results of hypothesis tests performed by statistical software?)
10. Survey Response Rates: Web vs. Mail
(Do students cooperate more with traditional mail surveys than they do with web surveys?)
11. Student Prior Knowledge in Studies of Learning
(Do two common methods, that researchers use to adjust for prior knowledge in learning experiments, really work?)
12. Classification Differences Between Linear Discriminant Analysis and Logistic Regression
(If a researcher needs to classify students into one of two possible groups, should he/she choose logistic regression or linear discriminant analysis?)
Links to Other Publications of Interest
This section lists some web pages that may interest community college staff. The text descriptions are basically excerpts from the announcements appearing on listserves. As usual, some web addresses may change over time, and you may occasionally encounter an inoperative link (in which case we apologize in advance).
Student Learning/Participation
One Day I Will Make It: A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs
A 101-page report, by Kristin E. Porter, et al., for MDRC.
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/401/full.pdf
Support Success: Services That May Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
A 61-page paper, by Rogeair Purnell and Susan Blank, for MDRC, that describes the results of field research covering community colleges across the nation.
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/399/full.pdf
California Opportunity Indicators: Informing and Monitoring California's Progress Toward Equitable College Access
A 30-page paper, by Jeannie Oakes, Julie Mendoza, and David Silver, for the University of California/ACCORD, that describes college access.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=ucaccord
Language Minorities and Their Educational and Labor Market Indicators--Recent Trends
An article, in Education Statistics Quarterly by Steve Klein, et al., that uses data from the Current Population Survey.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_6/1_2/7_2.asp
Undergraduate Enrollments in Academic, Career, and Vocational Education
An article in Education Statistics Quarterly by Lisa Hudson and Linda Shafer that uses a new taxonomy for classifying majors and degrees.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_6/1_2/5_1.asp
Teaching and Faculty
The Relative Earnings of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education
A 28-page paper, by James Monks of Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond, Virginia, that used data from the 1999 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty by the National Center of Educational Statistics.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cheri/wp/cheri_wp59.pdf
Workforce Development
Rising to the Challenge: Are High School Graduates Prepared for College and Work?
A 14-page report by Peter D. Hart Research Associates/Public Opinion Strategies for Achieve, Inc.
http://www.achieve.org/dstore.nsf/Lookup/pollreport/$file/pollreport.pdf
Women, Work, and Family in California
A 20-page paper, by Deborah Reed of the Public Policy Institute of California, describing the state of women in the labor market for California.
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/CC_1104DRCC.pdf
The Lukewarm 2004 Labor Market
A 13-page report by Sylvia Allegretto, Jared Bernstein, and Isaac Shapiro, for the Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., that discusses the national labor trends.
http://www.epinet.org/issuebriefs/20050216_epi_cbpp.pdf
Special Report. Boom, Bust, and Beyond: The State of Working California [Moving Ahead or Falling Behind? California's Fast-Growing Latino Workforce
A 16-page report, by the California Budget Project, that used data from the Current Population Survey.
http://www.cbp.org/2004/0408latinoreport.pdf
Participation in Technology-Based Postcompulsory Education
An article, in Education Statistics Quarterly, by Lisa Hudson and Linda Shafer, using data from the National Household Education Survey (2001).
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/vol_5/5_4/2_3.asp
Strategic Planning
Policymaking in Education: Understanding Influences on the Reading Excellence Act.
A 20-page paper by Jacqueline Edmondson (Assistant Professor of Education, Pennsylvania State University) describing public policymaking for educators, with the Reading Excellence Act as a practical example.
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n11/v13n11.pdf
Designing Finance Structures to Satisfy Equity and Adequacy Goals
A 28-page paper by Richard A. King (University of Northern Colorado), Austin D. Swanson (State University of New York at Buffalo), and Scott R. Sweetland (The Ohio State University) discussing the concept of school funding adequacy.
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n15/v13n15.pdf
Using Scenarios and Simulations to Plan Colleges
A 12-page paper by Chuck McIntyre, for the journal Planning for Higher Education, that describes a planning methodology through the recent example of work at College of the Desert.
http://207.75.158.201/PHE/FMPro?-db=PubItems.fp5&-lay=ART&-
format=read_full.htm&-error=error.htm&ID_pub=PUB
-l6f0bE33W63SUC4Hnt&t_Pub_PgNum=18&-SortField=t_Pub_PgNum&-Find
The Investment Payoff: A 50-State Analysis of the Public and Private Benefits of Higher Education
A 44-page report, by the Institute for Higher Education Policy for the Lumina Foundation, that presents data about the returns of higher education.
http://www.ihep.org/Pubs/PDF/InvestmentPayoff2005.pdf
Educational Resources and Outcomes in California, By Race and Ethnicity
A 24-page paper, by Deborah Reed of the Public Policy Institute of California, describing the state of educational achievement---and its gaps among the ethnic/racial populations in California.
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/CC_205DRCC.pdf
Research Methods
What Good Are Statistics That Don't Generalize?
Paper in the journal Educational Researcher written by David Williamson Shaffer and Ronald C. Serlin (both of University of Wisconsin, Madison) that discusses an integration of quantitative analysis and qualitative research.
http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/
Journals/Educational_Researcher/Volume_33_No_9/03_ERv33n9_Shaffer.pdf
Evidence from "What Works": An Argument for Extended Term Mixed Method Evaluation Designs
Paper in the journal Educational Researcher written by Madhabi Chatterji (Teachers College, Columbia University) that introduces a study design that integrates multiple methods and temporal perspectives. http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Journals_and_Publications/
Journals/Educational_Researcher/Volume_33_No_9/02_ERv33n9_Chatterji.pdf
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