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1996

Selected Works

International and Comparative Education

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Full-Text Articles in Education

What Have We Learned From The First Year Of The National Study Of Student Learning?, Ernest T. Pascarella, Elizabeth J. Whitt, Amaury Nora, Marcia Edison, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Patrick T. Terenzini Mar 1996

What Have We Learned From The First Year Of The National Study Of Student Learning?, Ernest T. Pascarella, Elizabeth J. Whitt, Amaury Nora, Marcia Edison, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Patrick T. Terenzini

Linda Serra Hagedorn

Student affairs professionals take seriously their responsibilities for fostering learning and personal development....If learning is the primary measure of institutional productivity by which the quality of undergraduate education is determined, what and how much students learn also must be criteria by which the value of student affairs is judged. (ACPA, p.2. 1994)


Effects Of Teacher Organization/Preparation And Teacher Skill/Clarity On General Cognitive Skills In College., Ernest Pascarella, Marcia Edison, Amaury Nora, Linda S. Hagedorn, John Braxton Dec 1995

Effects Of Teacher Organization/Preparation And Teacher Skill/Clarity On General Cognitive Skills In College., Ernest Pascarella, Marcia Edison, Amaury Nora, Linda S. Hagedorn, John Braxton

Linda Serra Hagedorn

Controlling for such factors as precollege cognitive ability and academic motivation, ethnicity, gender, exposure to college, work responsibilities, and the pattern of courses taken, students reporting that the first-year instruction they received was well organized and prepared tended to demonstrate greater general cognitive development than their peers who reported receiving less organized and prepared instruction. Implications for student affairs are discussed.