Abstract
Institutional Selectivity and Good Practices in Undergraduate Education: How Strong is the Link?
Highlights
The academic “selectivity” of a college or university’s undergraduate student body has been perhaps the most common single criterion by which the public, as well as many scholars, make inferences about the “quality” of the undergraduate education one receives
Column 2 shows the percentages of between-institution variance in good practices explained by college selectivity when differences in average student precollege characteristics among institutions were taken into account
We conducted analysis of two independent data sets to estimate the net effect of three measures of college selectivity on dimensions of documented good practices in undergraduate education
Summary
The academic “selectivity” of a college or university’s undergraduate student body has been perhaps the most common single criterion by which the public, as well as many scholars, make inferences about the “quality” of the undergraduate education one receives Co-Director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. Ty Cruce is a research analyst at the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University–Bloomington. Umbach is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Iowa. Kuh is Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University–Bloomington. Robert M Gonyea is Associate Director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University–Bloomington.
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