GREAT BOOKS
What Matters in College Four Critical Years Revisited McKenna Koewler
What Matters in College? OUTLINE OF TOPICS Measuring College Impact Corporate Initiative Research Program Overview of Astin's Study I-E-O Model Basic I-E-O Model Advanced Findings: Peer Groups
“By increasing our understanding of how particular student outcomes are affected by particular environmental experiences, we substantially enhance our capacity to create more effective institutions and programs” (ASTIN, 1993, P 85)
Why study the impact of college? TO FIND THE MISSING PIECES 1) Multi-Instutional Data 2) Longitudinal Data
The Corporative Initiative Research Program
STUDENT CHANGE
FRAMEWORK
ANALYSIS
Understand the meaning of
Design model or conceptual
Design the analysis of the data
student change
framework for studying student outcomes
The Research WHO
WHAT
WHY
Students entering
192 measures
Improve
college as a
developed to
institutional policy
freshman in 1985,
work with I-E-O
and help students
study continued
Model
make important
until 1990.
decisions
I-E-O Model IMPUT - ENVIRONMENT - OUTPUT
INPUT
ENVIRONMENT
OUTPUT
Student
What the student is
Student
characteristics prior
exposed to during
characteristics after
to entrance
college
entrance
I-E-O Model
INPUT
BRIDGE
BETWEENBETWEENCOLLEGE COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONME AL VARIABLES NTAL VARIABLES
INVOLVEMENT & OTHER INTERMEDIATE OUTCOME VARIABLES
Peer Group: A peer group is a collection of individuals with whom the individual identifies and affiliates and from whom the individual seeks acceptance or approval
Peer Groups THE MOST POWERFUL INFLUENCE IDENTITY
AFFILIATION
ACCEPTANCE
Student's beliefs,
The interactions
Acknowledgement
a statement
within the identity
and acceptance
deemed to be
group.
by peers
true
23 year old, student-athlete micro-economics major
Astin's Thoughts “THE PROBLEMS OF STRENGTHENING AND REFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION ARE FUNDAMENTALLY PROBLEMS OF VALUES” (ASTIN, 1993, P 435).
Got any questions? REFERENCES ASTIN, A. W. (1993) WHAT MATTERS IN COLLEGE: FOUR CRITICAL YEARS REVISITED. SAN FRANCISCO, CA: JOSSEY-BASS INC.