Richard J. Light, Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett., By design :
planning research on higher education, Harvard University Press,
c1990
"Do students who work longer and harder learn more in college?
Does joining a fraternity with a more academic flavor enhance a
student's academic performance? When are the results from an innovation
that is tried on one campus applicable to other campuses? How many
students and faculty members must participate in a research project
before findings are valid? Do students learn best when they study alone
or in small groups? These are just some more than fifty examples that Richard
Light, Judith Singer and John Willett explore in By Design, a
lively nontechnical sourcebook for learning about colleges and
universities. These authors believe that careful design of research on
college effectiveness is the single most important step toward
producing useful and valid findings. In that spirit, By Design is a
pathbreaking textbook of modern research methods that both
practitioners and students will find useful." - Nielsen BookData.
1. Why Do Research On Higher Education? Many Questions, Many
Options Our Philosophy of Research Design How This Book is
Organized
2. What Are Your Questions? Why Are Research Questions So
Important? Getting Specific Building on the Work of Others Correlation
versus Causation The Wheel of Science
3. What Groups Do You Want to Study? Specifying the Target
Population Where Should you Conduct the Study Selecting Your Sample
More Than One Type of Respondent Nonresponse Bias
4. What Predictors Do You Want to Study? Types of Predictors
The Important Role of Variation Other Reasons for Selecting Predictors
The Integrity of Your Treatment Choosing Which Predictors to Study
5. Compared to What? Why Do You Need a Comparison Group?
Randomized Control Groups: The Best Comparisons Requiring Informed
Consent Volunteer Bias Comparison Groups without Random Assignment
Retrospective Case-control Studies Design Effects Can Swamp Treatment
Effects
6. What Are Your Outcomes? Different Kinds of Outcomes Will You
Measure Status or Development Short-term versus Long-term Effects Are
Your Measures Valid?
7. How Can You Improve Your Measures? What is Measurement
Error? Reliability and Measurement Error Six Strategies for Improving
Measurement Quality Looking at Measurement Quality
8. How Many People Should You Study? Why Is Sample Size So
Important? What Size Effect Do You Want to Detect? What Type of
Analysis Will You Use? Instruments Precision and Sample Size What If
Students Drop Out?
9. Should You Try It out on a Small Scale? The Advantages of
Pilot Studies Piloting Instruments Relational Studies Informal
Small-scale Experiments Generalizing From a Small Study
10. Where Should You Go From Here? Getting Started Lessons From
Our Seminar Decisions
You Must Make Planning a Longer-term Research Program
Reference & Index
Richard J. Light, Making the
most of college : students speak their minds, Harvard University
Press, c2001
"Why do some students make the most of college, while others
struggle and look back on years of missed deadlines and missed
opportunities? What choices can students make, and what can teachers
and university leaders do, to improve more students' experiences and
help them achieve the most from their time and money? Most important,
how is the increasing diversity on campus-cultural, racial, and
religious-affecting education? What can students and faculty do to
benefit from differences, and even learn from the inevitable moments of
misunderstanding and awkwardness? From his ten years of interviews with
Harvard seniors, Richard Light distills encouraging-and surprisingly
practical-answers to fundamental questions. How can you choose classes wisely?What's the best way to study? Why do some
professors inspire and others leave you cold? How can you connect what
you discover in class to all you're learning in the rest of life?
Light suggests, for instance: studying
in pairs or groups can be more productive than studying alone;
the first and most important skill to learn is time management; supervised independent research projects
and working internships offer the most learning and the greatest
challenges; and encounters with
students of different religions can be simultaneously the most taxing
and most illuminating of all the experiences with a diverse student body.
Filled with practical advice,
illuminated with stories of real students' self-doubts, failures,
discoveries, and hopes, Making the Most of College is a handbook
for academic and personal success.#" - Nielsen BookData.
1. Introduction
2. Powerful Connections
3. Suggestions from Students
4. The Most Effective Classes
5. Good Mentoring and Advising
6. Faculty Who Make a Difference
7. Diversity on Campus
8. Learning from Differences
9. What College Leaders Can Do
The Assessment Project
References
Acknowledgments & Index
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