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Academic environments; College campuses; College majors; College students; Holland's theory; Student engagement; Universities and colleges
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Environmental Engagement Demand Differences Within And Among Holland Academic Environments, Derek K. Lester
Environmental Engagement Demand Differences Within And Among Holland Academic Environments, Derek K. Lester
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College and university administrators have increased the use of measurements of student engagement to gauge the levels on their campuses. However, little research measures student engagement levels among different academic environments or different academic majors. Some research has been done that used Holland's theory of person/environment fit, and accompanying Hexagonal model, as a means to compare differences among academic environments. However, the validity of the assumptions that the model is based on has not been examined, nor the validity of the grouping of academic majors into environments.
The data set used for this study is the 2005 National Survey of …