Division J Invited Session: How Should Researchers Define and Measure College Student Success?

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This will be an interactive session that will focus on understanding: advantages and disadvantages of alternative measures of college student success; how use of different populations influences the outcomes; how what is measured influences what is valued by higher education institutions; how well
prevailing measures of student success meet the needs of public and institutional policymakers.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education

Chair

• Scott L. Thomas, Claremont Graduate University

Participants

• Regina J. Deil-Amen, The University of Arizona

• Michael Pavel, University of Oregon

• Ann Person, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• William T. Trent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign