Explaining Student Growth in College When You Don't Think You Are

• DOI: 10.1353/csd.2003.0007
• Publication Date: 2007-02-07T03:39:32Z
• Authors: Ernest T Pascarella; Gregory C Wolniak; Christopher T Pie...
• Keywords: Research Design

It is frequently the case in longitudinal research focusing on impact of college students that researchers will employ a pretest-posttest design. In this design, outcome to be explained assessed both before and after some intervention, thus affording optimal "statistical control" for an individual's status variable prior intervention. The typical analytical procedure such design regress postintervention measure preintervention representing different conditions