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A Holistic Approach To Estimating The Influence Of Good Practices On Student Outcomes At Liberal Arts And Non-Liberal Arts Institutions, Teniell L. Trolian

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

Many higher education administrators and researchers have considered certain "good practices" of institutions as an instrumental way to improve student outcomes. Chickering and Gamson’s (1987) seven principles of good practice has been particularly salient in defining these practices. Often, prior studies only select some of the seven principles for their analysis. Even studies that consider several principles of good practice on student outcomes typically examine the net effect of each principle instead of assessing how these principles holistically influence student out-comes. Using structural equation modeling, we test a basic conceptual framework where we investigate the contribution of the seven principles …