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Direct linkSara E. North – American Journal of Evaluation, 2024
A method called multi-attribute utility analysis (MAUA) provides a decision-making framework that facilitates comparative analysis of multiple real-world decision alternatives with unique complex attributes. Utility analysis as a measure of effectiveness has been minimally used by educational researchers to date, despite clear relevance in complex…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Suburban Schools, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education
Download full textHotchkiss, Julie L.; Moore, Robert E.; Pitts, M. Melinda – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2005
This paper applies a standard treatment effects model to determine that participation in Freshman Learning Communities (FLCs) improves academic performance and retention. Not controlling for individual self-selection into FLC participation leads one to incorrectly conclude that the impact is the same across race and gender groups. Accurately…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Godard, James M., Ed. – 1980
Three plans implemented during 1979-80 that addressed the presence of historically black and historically white public universities in the same metropolitan areas are described. Plans were developed in Nashville, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia. In Nashville, Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee at…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Desegregation, College Segregation
