Rishi Sriram

Student Affairs by the Numbers (eBook, ePUB)

Quantitative Research and Statistics for Professionals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book will begin by establishing the need for these skills in student affairs and then quickly move to how to develop a research culture, how to conduct research, how to understand statistics, and concluding with how to change our research/assessment behaviors in order to make higher education better for students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000978131
• Artikelnr.: 68356425

Autorenporträt

Rishi Sriram serves as Associate Professor of Higher Education & Student Affairs, Associate Chair for the Department of Educational Leadership, and Residential College Faculty Steward of Brooks Residential College-a living-learning community of approximately 400 students, at Baylor University. Dr. Sriram spent eight years as a higher education and student affairs administrator before beginning his current role as a professor. He played a primary role in the development of residential colleges and living-learning programs at Baylor, as well as the establishment of a faculty-in-residence program. His administrative work won him a NASPA Excellence Award (Gold Honoree) and a Promising Practices Award from the NASPA Student Affairs Partnering with Academic Affairs Knowledge Community. Dr. Sriram's research interests include student affairs practice, collaboration between academic and student affairs, and college student retention, engagement, achievement, and learning. His work has been published in respected journals such as the Journal of College Student Development, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, and the Journal of College Student Retention. He has served on the editorial/review boards of several higher education journals and also served as the first Director of Research for the Texas Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Student Affairs, Fast and Slow 2.
An Introduction to Research 3. Developing a Research Paradigm 4. Research
Design 5. The Theory Behind Survey Design 6. Survey Design in Practice 7.
Basic Statistics 8. Statistical Approach for the Question of Relationship
9. Statistical Approach for Comparing Groups 10. Statistical Approach for
Predicting Groups 11. Statistical Approach for Analyzing Structure 12. How
This Book Should Change Your Life Appendix. Final Exam References About the
Author Index