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How College Affects Students Ernest T. Pascarella (University of Iowa)

How College Affects Students By Ernest T. Pascarella (University of Iowa)

How College Affects Students by Ernest T. Pascarella (University of Iowa)


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Discusses Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. This book reviews their findings and synthesizes what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students' learning. It also discusses the implications of the findings for research, practice, and public policy.

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How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research by Ernest T. Pascarella (University of Iowa)

This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students' learning. The book also discusses the implications of the findings for research, practice, and public policy. This authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the literature on college-impact is required reading for anyone interested in higher education practice, policy, and promise3/4faculty, administrators, researchers, policy analysts, and decision-makers at every level.

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How College Affects Students is the essentialreference for anyone trying to answer the question 'Whatworks?' In this new volume, the authors synthesize the mostrecent body of research that refines this question for the diverserange of students and institutions.--Jacqueline E.King, director, Center for Policy Analysis, American Council onEducation

Pascarella and Terenzini have produced anotherencyclopedic masterpiece--thorough, penetrating, insightful,and rich with implications. It is the essential resource foranyone with a serious interest in college studentdevelopment.--George D. Kuh, chancellor's professor anddirector, Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University

In extending their landmark synthesis, Pascarella andTerenzini have reassuringly confirmed their original conclusionsabout college impact. But they also reveal how much broader andricher this literature has become through the addition of topicsthat range from diversity, through community colleges, to newtheories of human development. Their work remainsdefinitive.--Peter Ewell, senior associate, NationalCenter for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)

Essential reading for both scholars and campusleaders.--John C. Smart, professor of higher education,University of Memphis and editor, Research in HigherEducation

About Ernest T. Pascarella (University of Iowa)

Ernest T. Pascarella is the Mary Louise Petersen Professor ofHigher Education at the University of Iowa. He has receivednumerous awards for his research from national professional andscholarly associations. In 2003 he received the Howard R. BowenDistinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study ofHigher Education.

Patrick T. Terenzini is distinguished professor and seniorscientist in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at ThePennsylvania State University. He has received research awards fromthe Association for the Study of Higher Education, the Associationfor Institutional Research, the American Society for EngineeringEducation, the American College Personnel Association, and theNational Association of Student Personnel Administrators.

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GOR007674935
9780787910440
0787910449
How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research by Ernest T. Pascarella (University of Iowa)
Used - Very Good
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John Wiley & Sons Inc
20050311
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