Alexander Astin
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Allan M. Carter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Organizational Change/University of California/Los Angeles
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander W. Astin was the Allan M. Cartter Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and Organizational Change, at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was founding director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. He has served as Director of Research for both the American Council on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He was also the founding director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, an ongoing national study of some fifteen million students, 300,000 faculty and staff, and 1,800 higher education institutions.
Alexander Astin's Published Works
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Published Works
- What matters in college? : four critical years revisited (1994) (6288)
- Preventing students from dropping out (1975) (1395)
- What Matters In College (1993) (1198)
- Involvement in Learning Revisited: Lessons We Have Learned. (1999) (541)
- The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2000. (2000) (374)
- The Methodology of Research on College Impact, Part One. (1970) (338)
- The Changing American College Student: Thirty-Year Trends, 1966-1996 (1997) (331)
- Cross-Racial Interaction Among Undergraduates: Some Consequences, Causes, and Patterns (2004) (317)
- Diversity and Multiculturalism on the Campus (1993) (308)
- The Spiritual Life of College Students: A National Study of College Students' Search for Meaning and Purpose (2005) (306)
- The American College Teacher: National Norms for the 2001-2002 HERI Faculty Survey. (2002) (289)
- Degree Attainment Rates at American Colleges and Universities: Effects of Race, Gender, and Institutional Type. (1996) (286)
- The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1982. (1982) (285)
- How “Good” is Your Institution's Retention Rate? (1997) (282)
- The Environmental Assessment Technique: A way to measure college environments. (1961) (270)
- The Educational And Vocational Development Of College Students (1969) (195)
- Retaining and Satisfying Students. (1987) (181)
- The Methodology of Research on College Impact. (1970) (171)
- Statistical alternatives for studying college student retention: A comparative analysis of logit, probit, and linear regression (1993) (158)
- Social Class, Academic Ability, and College “Quality” (1975) (157)
- Personal and environmental factors associated with college dropouts among high aptitude students. (1964) (151)
- Assessing Students' Spiritual and Religious Qualities (2011) (151)
- An Empirical Typology of College Students. (1993) (150)
- Attrition Among College Students (1968) (148)
- Predicting academic performance in college : selectivity data for 2300 American colleges (1971) (146)
- Making Sense Out of Degree Completion Rates (2005) (137)
- The Impact of Dormitory Living on Students. (1973) (128)
- College Dropouts : a national profile (1972) (120)
- How Risky Are One-Shot Cross-Sectional Assessments of Undergraduate Students? (2003) (115)
- College Environment (2018) (100)
- New measures of college selectivity (1977) (92)
- Who goes where to college (1965) (92)
- The American freshman : twenty year trends, 1966-1985 (1987) (90)
- The prediction of the academic, artistic, scientific, and social achievement of undergraduates of superior scholastic aptitude. (1962) (87)
- Multi-Campus Studies of College Impact: Which Statistical Method is Appropriate? (2009) (83)
- The American freshman : thirty-five year trends, 1966-2001 (2002) (79)
- The American Freshman: Twenty-Five Year Trends, 1966-1990. (1991) (77)
- Further validation of the environmental assessment technique. (1963) (75)
- How the Liberal Arts College Affects Students. (1999) (73)
- National Norms for Entering College Freshmen - Fall 1969. (1967) (70)
- A Decade of Changes in Undergraduate Education: A National Study of System "Transformation" (2002) (67)
- A factor study of the MMPI psychopathic deviate scale. (1959) (62)
- Effect of different college environments on the vocational choices of high aptitude students. (1965) (58)
- The changing American college student: implications for educational policy and practice (1991) (58)
- Why Not Try Some New Ways of Measuring Quality (1982) (57)
- SELECTION 11 – An Empirical Characterization of Higher Educational Institutions* (1962) (55)
- Colleges That Emphasize Research and Teaching: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too? (1995) (54)
- Criterion-Centered Research (1964) (53)
- The Invisible Colleges: A Profile of Small, Private Colleges With Limited Resources. (1972) (50)
- Differential college effects on the motivation of talented students to obtain the Ph.D. (1963) (49)
- Studying how College Affects Students: A Personal History of the Cirp (2003) (48)
- Equanimity and Spirituality (2006) (47)
- Competition or Cooperation?: Teaching Teamwork as a Basic Skill (1987) (46)
- Are Reputational Ratings Needed to Measure Quality (1981) (45)
- Classroom environment in different fields of study. (1965) (42)
- Educational "Choice": Its Appeal May be Illusory (1992) (38)
- Undergraduate Aspirations: A Test of Several Theories (1972) (37)
- A re-examination of college productivity. (1961) (33)
- An integral approach to medicine. (2002) (27)
- The Black Undergraduate: Current Status and Trends in the Characteristics of Freshmen. (1990) (24)
- Measuring Academic Quality: An Interim Report. (1979) (24)
- A “Link” System for Assuring Confidentiality of Research Data in Longitudinal Studies1 (1970) (22)
- Influences on the student's motivation to seek advanced training: Another look. (1962) (22)
- Personal and Environmental Determinants of Student Activism (1968) (22)
- A Program of Longitudinal Research on the Higher Educational System. (1966) (22)
- Distribution of students among higher educational institutions. (1964) (21)
- Some characteristics of student bodies entering higher educational institutions. (1964) (20)
- College Influence: A Comprehensive View. (1970) (20)
- Dimensions of work satisfaction in the occupational choices of college freshmen. (1958) (18)
- Effects of College on Beliefs, Attitudes, and Knowledge. (1978) (18)
- Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students (2016) (16)
- Alternative Methods of Describing Characteristics of Colleges and Universities (1968) (15)
- Educational Assessment and Educational Equity (1990) (15)
- A RESEARCH REPORT: Measuring Academic Quality An Interim Report (1979) (14)
- Moral Messages of the University. (1989) (14)
- The Mood on Campus: More Conservative or Just More Materialistic?. (1985) (14)
- How College Affects Students. Volume 2: A Third Decade of Research (review) (2005) (14)
- Violence and Disruption on the U.S. Campus, 1968-1969. (1969) (13)
- What "Doesn't" Matter in College?@@@What Matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited (1993) (13)
- "Bad habits" and social deviation: a proposed revision in conflict theory. (1962) (12)
- Two Approaches to Measuring Students' Perceptions of Their College Environment. (1971) (12)
- A New Study of Excellence in Undergraduate Education (1981) (11)
- Antecedents and Consequents of Disruptive Campus Protests. (1971) (10)
- New Evidence on Campus Unrest, 1969-70. (1971) (10)
- What Matters to Alexander Astin ? (2003) (10)
- Comment on "A student's dilemma: Big fish-little pond or little fish-big pond." (1969) (9)
- Campus Unrest, 1970-71: Was It Really All That Quiet?. (1971) (9)
- In the Achievements and Aspirations of the Merit Scholar (1964) (9)
- From Number Crunching to Spirituality (2003) (8)
- Cost-effectiveness of differential techniques for mail questionnaires (1974) (7)
- Admitting and assisting students after Bakke (1978) (7)
- Prelaw Students--A National Profile. (1984) (7)
- Differing Views of Institutional Quality: Implications for College Admissions Counselors. (1984) (7)
- Research: How Colleges Are Rated (1970) (7)
- “Spirituality” and “Religiousness” among American College Students (2016) (7)
- Campus Disruption During 1968-1969. (1969) (7)
- The First Year of College: A Follow-up Normative Report (1970) (6)
- On the Failures of Educational Ploicy (1977) (6)
- Test Reviews: The Use of Tests in Research on Students of High Ability. (1964) (6)
- SUPPLEMENTARY NATIONAL NORMS FOR FRESHMEN ENTERING COLLEGE IN 1966. (1967) (6)
- What Do Administrators Know About Their Institutions (1977) (4)
- The American College Student, 1988. National Norms for 1984 and 1986 College Freshmen. (1990) (4)
- Academic Administration: The Hard Core of Sexism in Academe. (1977) (4)
- A Note On the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate Scale (1961) (4)
- Personal Characteristics and Attitude Changes of Student Protesters. (1973) (4)
- Can State-Mandated Assessment Work?. (1990) (4)
- Forging the Ties That Bind: The Dilemma of the Modern University. (1993) (3)
- The American Freshman, 1966-1981: Some Implications for Educational Policy and Practice. (1982) (3)
- Views and Characteristics of this Year's Freshmen. (1987) (3)
- Institutional Strategies: A Consortial Approach to Assessment. (1987) (2)
- THEY WENT TO COLLEGE--A DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF THE CLASS OF 1965. (1967) (2)
- Values, Assessment, and Academic Freedom: A Challenge to the Accrediting Process. (1992) (2)
- The Early Years of Holland's Research: Some Personal Reflections (1999) (2)
- Leaders and Leadership@@@Leadership@@@The Vicar of Christ@@@Rockefeller of New York, Executive Power in the State-House@@@Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power@@@Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness@@@Management, Governance & Leadership, a Guide for College and Univ (1980) (2)
- The Need for Redefining "Talent" and "Talent Loss": A Plan for Practical Action and Research. (1962) (2)
- The Intermediate Effects of Inequality: Differences in Access and Utilization of Educational Resources (1974) (2)
- A Look at Pluralism in the Contemporary Student Population (2015) (1)
- POTENTIAL USES OF DATA COLLECTED THROUGH MASSIVE TESTING PROGRAMS (1965) (1)
- The minority pipeline: Minorities at different educational transition points (1978) (1)
- TRENDS IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENTERING COLLEGE STUDENTS, 1961-65. (1966) (1)
- College Impact on Student Attitudes and Behavior. (1971) (1)
- Protest Behavior and Response on the U.S. Campus. Volume I: An Overview. (1971) (1)
- Total view of campus unrest. (1969) (1)
- War Protest on U.S. Campuses During April, 1972. (1972) (0)
- POSITION OR POLICY. (1969) (0)
- [Book Reviews] (1961) (0)
- College-going and Human Development. (1972) (0)
- Challenge to the Credentialing Process. (1972) (0)
- Book Review:The Search for Ability: Standardized Testing in Social Perspective. David A. Goslin (1964) (0)
- The introductory college course in psychology: An empirical analysis (1965) (0)
- Volume Information (1972) (0)
- Faculty Influences on the College Environment. (1972) (0)
- Educating the Gifted. A book of readings. Joseph L. French, Ed. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, ed. 2, 1964. xiv + 514 pp. $7.35 (1964) (0)
- Book Reviews: Hyman, Herbert H., Wright, Charles R., & Reed, John Shelton. The enduring effects of education. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1975. pp. 313, $12.50. (1976) (0)
- Dropping out of College: Failure or Fulfillment? (1968) (0)
- Response to the Review Symposium of Four Critical Years (2017) (0)
- Research: College-going and Human Development (1972) (0)
- Undergraduate Aspirations: A Test of Several (1972) (0)
- A Computer Program for Normalizing Distributions of Variables (1967) (0)
- Volume Information (1984) (0)
- Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America (2002) (0)
- Looking beyond Bakke (1978) (0)
- Evaluating the Effects of College on the Talented Student (1962) (0)
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