What Matters in College?: Four Critical Years Revisted: Four Critical Years Revisited (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) - Softcover

Astin, Alexander W.

 
9780787908386: What Matters in College?: Four Critical Years Revisted: Four Critical Years Revisited (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 078790838X ISBN 13: 9780787908386
Verlag: Jossey-Bass, 1997

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From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College? presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

ALEXANDER W. ASTIN is professor of higher education and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Presents the results from the definitive study on how students are changed by their college experiences.From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College? presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.

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What Matters in College? presents a study of how students change and develop in college and reveals how colleges can enhance that development. The book shows how a range of variables--including academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and much more--affect students' college experiences. It examines more than 190 environmental characteristics of institutions and details how these factors can have an impact on students' personality and self-concept, patterns of behavior, values and beliefs, academic and cognitive development, career development, and satisfaction with the college environment.

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Verlag
Jossey-Bass
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
078790838X
ISBN 13 
9780787908386
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
508
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