Literature Review #3

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2. Astin, A. W. (1984). Student Involvement: A developmental theory for higher education. Journal

of College Student Personnel, 25(4), 518-529.

3. This paper talks a lot about Student Involvement Theory, how different factors affect student involvement in a university, mainly their chance of getting involved. A lot of factors are discussed including administrative input factors, student effort factors, and environmental factors such as student living. This paper equated involvement to retention, and goes through the steps as to why it makes this distinction.

4. Dr. Alexander Astin is a distinguished figure in higher education, as the founder of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA and the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. Dr. Astin has also won the Allan M. Cartter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Organizational Change at UCLA.

5. Student Involvement: the amount of physical and psychological energy that the student devotes to the academic experience

6. "It is obvious that students who live in residence halls have more time and opportunity to get involved in all aspects of campus life. Indeed, simply by eating, sleeping, and spending their waking hours one the college campus, residential students have a better chance than do commuter students of developing a strong identification and attachment to undergraduate life" (523).

"Although it may seem that working while attending college takes time and energy away from academic pursuits, part-time employment in an on-campus job actually facilitates retention" (523).

"Residents are more likely than commuters to achieve in such extracurricular areas as leadership and athletics and to express satisfaction with their undergraduate experience, particularly in the areas of student friendships, faculty-student relations, institutional reputation, and social life" (525).

7. This paper talks a lot about the Theory of Student Involvement, which will help me relate my empirical findings and other studies to a more theoretical argument. Student involvement plays a large part in the experience of students on and off campus, and although there is a link to an increase in experience and interaction for on campus students compared to off campus, there is no link in difference between retention rate or academic performance.