Table 1 Correlations between institutional mean scores of NSSE clusters of effective educational practices and institutional graduation rates (N=680 4-year colleges and universities) .

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What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature

Arthur Chickering is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Memphis State University. On leave from the Directorship of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Memphis State, he is Visiting Professor at George Mason University. Zelda Gamson is a sociologist who holds appointments at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.

Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: Faculty Inventory. Institutional Inventory.

This study examined factors related to student athletes’ engagement in educationally purposeful activities and the impact of their experiences on cognitive and affective outcomes. We found that background characteristics have little influence on the extent to which student athletes engage in educational activities; however, engagement had positive effects on college outcomes.

The Influence of Student Engagment and Sport Participation on College Outcomes Among Division I Student Athletes

Concern over the academic talent development of Division I student–athletes has led to increased research to explain variations in their academic performance. Although a substantial amount of attention has been given to the relationship between student–athletes and their levels of academic success, there remain critical theoretical and analytical gaps. The purpose of this article is to develop a conceptual model to understand and explain the cumulative processes and characteristics—as a whole and in stages—that influence academic success for Division I student–athletes. Research on student–athletes and academic success is reviewed and synthesized to provide a rationale for the basic elements of the conceptual model.

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A Conceptual Model of Academic Success for Student–Athletes

(1995). Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 598-600.

Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics

Scrutiny of intercollegiate athletics has intensified in recent years. This study compares student-athletes with those of non-athletes in terms of their engagement in effective educational practices. Contrary to many reports in the popular media, the findings from this study indicate that, on balance, student-athletes across a large number of colleges and universities do not differ greatly from their peers in terms of their participation in effective educational practices. In most instances, when differences do exist, they favor athletes.

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Stephanie J. Hannah

Papers

INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETES AND EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES: Winning Combination or Losing Effort?