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Shouping Hu, Shaoqing Li
1. Student Typologies in Higher Education
Shouping Hu, Lindsey Katherine, George D. Kuh
This chapter reviews various student typologies developed over time
and the stability and change in American college students'
characteristics, attitudes, and behaviors the typologies reflect.
2. Students' Involvement in Group Experiences and Connections to
Leadership Development
John P. Dugan
This chapter introduces a taxonomy refl ecting patterns of
involvement in student clubs and organizations during college and its
relationship to leadership development. Insights for better
understanding college student engagement, along with applications
associated with institutional research, are explored.
3. A Typology of Students' Use of the Community College
Peter Riley Bahr
This chapter describes a typology of fi rst-time community college
students based on students' course-taking and enrollment behavior. The
utility of the typology is demonstrated through an application that
involves interpreting data concerning students' participation in
remedial mathematics.
4. A Developmental Typology of Faculty-Student Interaction Outside
the Classroom
Bradley E. Cox
This chapter presents a typology of faculty-student interaction
outside the classroom. As both a descriptive framework and a
developmental model, the typology can be used independently or to
augment traditional survey research. The chapter concludes with fi ve
lessons learned about faculty-student interaction outside the classroom.
5. The Use of Cluster Analysis in Typological Research on Community
College Students
Peter Riley Bahr, Rob Bielby, Emily House
This chapter provides an introduction to the family of partitional
cluster analytical methods, with specifi c attention to research on
community college students. Key decision points and common approaches
in the use of cluster analysis are described.
6. Typological Research on College Students for Better Outcomes
Shouping Hu, Shaoqing Li
In this chapter, we discuss the issues in conducting typological
research and suggest the directions for future typological research on
college students that could aid efforts to enrich student experiences
and improve student outcomes.
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