By Design: Planning Research on Higher Education

9780674089310

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Richard J. Light

Genre Education & Teaching

Format Paperback

Dimensions 0.62 (w) x 6.14 (h) x 9.21 (d)

Pages 296

Publisher Harvard University Press

Publication Date March 1990

ISBN 9780674089310

Book ISBN 10 0674089316

About Book

Do students who work longer and harder learn more in college? Does joining a fraternity with a more academic flavor enhance a student's academic performance? When are the results from an innovation that is tried on one campus applicable to other campuses? How many students and faculty members must participate in a research project before findings are valid? Do students learn best when they study alone or in small groups?

These are just some more than fifty examples that Richard Light Judith Singer and John Willett explore in By Design, a lively nontechnical sourcebook for learning about colleges and universities. These authors believe that careful design of research on college effectiveness is the single most important step toward producing useful and valid findings. In that spirit, By Design is a pathbreaking textbook of modern research methods that both practitioners and students will find useful.

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Addresses the first phase of research--design of the project. The authors discuss the basic principles of research design and illustrate their points with sixty examples of recent research in higher education. Requires almost no technical background. For faculty, administrators, and students. Paper edition (unseen), $10.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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