How College Affects Students, Volume 3 carries on the tradition of the past volumes (which covered research years 1967-2001) as a critical review, synthesis, and analysis of the research on college impact that has accumulated between 2002 and 2012. Such synthesis and analysis helps the the field to understand how students are influenced by various facets of undergraduate education and provides empirical evidence on which to base future policies and practices.
The book will synthesize approximately 2500+ individual research investigations, and the authors will compare the conclusions from the research conducted between 2002 and 2012 with those based on the work conducted between 1991 and 2001 which constituted the research base for the second volume of How College Affects Students.
Table of Contents:
1. Studying College Outcomes in the New Century: Overview and Organization of the Research
2. Theoretical Models of College Impact
3. Development of Verbal, Quantitative, and Subject Matter Competence
4. Cognitive Skills and Intellectual Growth
5. Psychosocial Change
6. Attitudes and Values
7. Moral/Ethical Development
8. Educational Attainment and Persistence
9. Career and Economic Impacts of College
10. Quality of Life after College
11. How College Affects Students: A Summary
12. Implications for Research Policy and Practice
13. Technical Appendix: Methodological Advances in Estimating the Impact of College
The research reviewed in Chapters 3 10 will, where appropriate, be organized around the following structure (which was used in the preceding two volumes):
Change during College
Net Effects (Value Added) of College
Between-College Effects
Within-College Effects
Conditional Effects of College (are effects different for different kinds of students?)
Enduring Effects of College
Each chapter also summarizes the findings from the previous decades research so that the reader will be able to see the extent of agreement, disagreement, and change with the research findings from 2002-2012.
