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Undergraduate political attitudes: An examination of peer, faculty, and social influences
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-10)
A socialization perspective is used to examine the processes through which undergraduate student political attitudes are influenced by peers, faculty, and social trends. Using the model of undergraduate socialization ...
College impact, student impact: A reconsideration of the role of students within American higher education
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-09)
American college students tend to be viewed in terms of inputs and outcomes, due in part to the assessment movement and long-standing interest in college impact. A more complete view is one in which the relationship between ...
Latino student transition to college: Assessing difficulties and factors in successful college adjustment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-04)
The primary purpose of this study is to understand the factors that affect Latino student adjustment in the first and second year of college. The study examines data from a national, longitudinal survey along with the ...
African American kindergartners' spoken narratives: Topic associating and topic centered styles
(Elsevier, 1994)
This article discusses narrative styles of 48 African American low-income urban kindergartners. The starting point for this study was the work of Michaels (1981,1986, 1991) who found that during a classroom activity known ...
Teaching with difference: A response to Angela Calabrese Barton: Teaching science with homeless children: Pedagogy, representation, and identity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-04)
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Faculty and administrator perceptions of their environments: Different views or different models of organization?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-04)
Individuals' perceptions of the culture and climate of the organizations in which they work influence their motivation and individual performance. Using a theoretical model of institutional culture, organizational climate, ...