COLLEGE IMPACT MODELS:
Spady: Student Access - Experience - Performance (1970)
Astin: Input - Environment - Output (1970)
Astin/Pace: Theory of Involvement (1985)
Pascarella: Model for Assessing Student Change
(1985)
Weidman: Model of Undergraduate Socialization (1989)
THE VALUE OF A MODEL:
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Encourages Clarity of Purpose
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Stands as a Road Map or Guide for Developing
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Research Questions
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Assessment Design
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Data Collection
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Hypothesis Testing
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Statistical Analysis
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Serves as a Logic Chart (Otherwise Causality is not Clear)
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Assists Workload Conservation, and Fog Dissipation (concentrates
energy and attention, streamlines research design, reduces the amount of
data collection, data storage, analysis, and reporting)
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