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The Learning Outcomes Race: The Value of Self-Reported Gains in Large Research Universities
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Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg; Zhao, Chun-Mei – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
Throughout the world, measuring "learning outcomes" is viewed by many stakeholders as a relatively new method to judge the "value added" of colleges and universities. The potential to accurately measure learning gains is also a diagnostic tool for institutional self-improvement. This essay discussed the marketisation of…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Outcomes Assessment, Commercialization, Student Evaluation
Poor and Rich: Student Economic Stratification and Academic Performance in a Public Research University System
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Douglass, John; Thomson, Gregg – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
One sees various efforts in developed as well as in developing economies to seek a greater participation of lower-income students in their nation's leading universities. Once lower-income students do enroll in a highly selective institution, what happens to them? How well do they do academically when compared to their more wealthy counterparts?…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Universities, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
Engaged Learning in a Public University: Trends in the Undergraduate Experience. Report on the Results of the 2008 University of California Undergraduate Experience Study
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Brint, Steven; Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg; Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project is a collaborative effort among academic scholars and institutional researchers devoted to collecting new data and providing policy-relevant analysis of exactly these questions. Its purpose is to study in depth the undergraduate experience and, at the same time, through systematic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Learner Engagement, Citizen Participation
The Immigrant's University: A Study of Academic Performance and the Experiences of Recent Immigrant Groups at the University of California
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Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg – Higher Education Policy, 2010
One of the major characteristics of globalization is the large influx of immigrant groups moving largely from underdeveloped regions to developed economies. California offers one of the most robust examples of a large-scale, postmodern demographic transition that includes a great racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of immigrant groups, many of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism, Student Experience
The Poor and the Rich: A Look at Economic Stratification and Academic Performance among Undergraduate Students in the United States
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Douglass, John Aubrey; Thomson, Gregg – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2008
A number of national studies point to a trend in which highly selective and elite private and public universities are becoming less accessible to lower-income students. At the same time there have been surprisingly few studies of the actual characteristics and academic experiences of low-income students or comparisons of their undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, State Universities
A New Generation: Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, Immigration and the Undergraduate Experience at the University of California. General Report on the Results of the 2006 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey
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Brint, Steve; Douglass, John Aubrey; Flacks, Richard; Thomson, Gregg; Chatman, Steve – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Project is a collaborative effort of academic scholars, IR staff, and academic and administrative leaders at each of the UC (University of California) undergraduate campuses and at UCOP (University of California Office of the President). The objective is to develop new types of data and…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Student Experience, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity
Learning and Academic Engagement in the Multiversity: Student Experience in the Research University--21st Century (SERU21) Project. Results of the First University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey
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Flacks, Richard; Thomson, Gregg; Douglass, John; Caspary, Kyra – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2004
During the spring of 2002 and 2003, a team of faculty and institutional researchers conducted an innovative web-based survey on the undergraduate experience at all eight undergraduate campuses of the University of California. This report provides the first formal presentation of preliminary findings from that survey and discusses potential areas…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Research Universities, Student Experience, Learning Experience