Literature Review #2

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2) Blimling, G. S. (1989). A meta-analysis of the influence of college residence halls on academic

performance. Journal of College Student Development, 30(4), 551-561.

3) This journal article discusses how residence halls have affected student performance, compared to students who live at home, in the 1970s through empirical research performed by a studies analyzed by Dr. Blimling. Dr. Blimling looked at 21 different university studies and compared their results and findings with one another to see the gaps in their research and also, what the implicit results were of each category. Overall, Dr. Blimling found no criminalizing evidence to support the claim that on campus residence halls directly affect positive academic performance compared to students that live at home.

4) Dr. Gregory Blimling is a Professor at Rutgers University New Brunswick for the Graduate School of Education. He has been a student affairs administrator for 36 years and a university vice president for 22 years. Dr. Blimling was Vice President for Student Affairs here at Rutgers for eight years, and during that time, he co-developed the student affairs program for graduate students in the GSE. 

5) Residential experience: the influence of life in a college residence hall on the academic performance of undergraduate college students in the United States (551).

6) "The weighted Z for the combined probabliliy levels was not significant, demonstrating that when initial difference are controlled, the academic performance of residence hall students and students living at home do not differ significantly" (557).

"A closer examination of the studies, however, suggests that the later assertion is inaccurate. When only studies that controlled for differences in past academic performance were used, the reviewed research does not show that living in a conventional residence hall significantly influences academic performance over living at home" (559).

"But, for residence halls generally, the best assessment may be that they do not exert a major influence on students' academic performance compared with living at home. Other factors, such as past academic performance, motivation, and curriculum, may be the dominant and controlling factors" (560).

7) This study helped me to continue my assumptions that there actually is not a huge effect on academic performance when students live off or on campus. I have slowly discovered that other factors play a role in the empirical evidence of the effect of living at a university and this meta-analysis performed by Dr. Blimling on these 21 studies have found the same results, that there is not a huge difference.