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Developing Purpose In College: A Mixed Methods Study To Investigate How First-Year And Senior Students Developed Purpose At A Large Research Midwestern University, Laura J. Coombs
Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The purpose of this convergent mixed methods study was to investigate how students develop purpose at a large research Midwestern University. More specifically, this study assessed how students developed their sense of purpose in college, according to both first-year students and senior students.
The central research question for this study was: how do students develop purpose in college? More specifically, how do first-year students compare with senior college students when developing purpose in college? The Developing Purpose Inventory (DPI), created by William Barratt, was utilized to determine how students were developing purpose in college, according to Arthur Chickering’s student development …