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The purpose of this study is to understand the climates and contexts that promote college students’ development of appreciative attitudes toward Jews over four college years. Drawing on an established theoreti...
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Meeting Students Where They Are: Using Rasch Modeling for Improving the Measurement of Active Research in Higher Education
Surveys with rating scales are often used in higher education research to measure student learning and development, yet testing and reporting on the longitudinal psychometric properties of these instruments is...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Inspiring Muslim Appreciation in the First‑Year of College: What Makes a Difference?
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Open AccessInspiring Muslim Appreciation in the First-Year of College: What Makes a Difference?
The purpose of this study was to examine first-year change in appreciative attitudes toward Muslims by non-Muslim students. To this end, we longitudinally assessed 6229 undergraduate students at the beginning ...
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Building Women’s Innovation Capacities Through Undergraduate Experiences
This study examines how collegiate climates and practices can promote innovation capacities among an international longitudinal sample of undergraduate women. Using a pre-test/post-test quantitative design wit...
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Being Evangelical is Complicated: How Students’ Identities and Experiences Moderate Their Perceptions of Campus Climate
Evangelical Christian college students navigate campus buoyed by Christian privilege but may encounter silencing or othering tied to their religious beliefs, a feeling of incompatibility with their campus clim...
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Equitably Linking Integrative Learning and Students’ Innovation Capacities
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between two recent currents in postsecondary education – integrative learning and undergraduate innovation. We located the rationale for this study in ...
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Examining the Psychometric Properties of a New Integrative Learning Scale
Integrative learning is the ability to connect, apply, and/or synthesize. A highly valued skill for the knowledge economy and combating false narratives, integrative learning represents the cognitive heart of ...
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Beyond the Binary: Sophisticating Diversity Climate Considerations and Assessments
The study of diversity climates is as complicated as the study of diversity itself. Despite the call for more sophisticated and multi-dimensional approaches to the study of diversity climates, few empirical ef...
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Measuring Undergraduates’ Innovation Capacities
This study describes the process of develo** and validating an instrument that measures students’ innovation capacities as a higher education outcome. We introduce an interdisciplinary theoretical framework ...
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Expanding Perspectives on Evangelicalism: How Non-evangelical Students Appreciate Evangelical Christianity
Evangelical students pose a distinctive set of challenges to higher education professionals. These students, though advantaged to some degree because of their Christian identity, commonly report feeling margin...
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College Students’ Appreciative Attitudes Toward Atheists
Atheists are often marginalized in discussions of religious and spiritual pluralism on college campuses and beyond. As with other minority worldview groups, atheists face challenges with hostile campus climate...
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The Influence of Campus Climate and Interfaith Engagement on Self-Authored Worldview Commitment and Pluralism Orientation Across Sexual and Gender Identities
This study examined the extent to which LGBT students were oriented toward pluralism and self-authored worldview commitment, as well as the conditional effects of campus climate and interfaith engagement on pl...
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The purpose of this paper is to describe effect coding as an alternative quantitative practice for analyzing and interpreting categorical, multi-raced independent variables in higher education research. Not o...
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Measurements Matter: Taking the DIT-2 Multiple Times and College Students’ Moral Reasoning Development
The purpose of this paper was to examine differences between undergraduate students who had multiple exposures to an assessment of moral reasoning development (DIT-2) and students of the same cohort who had fe...
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Using data from the collegiate religious and spiritual climate survey, this study examined the relationship between campus climate and ecumenical orientation. Space for spiritual support and expression, provoc...
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Erratum to: Achievement or Arrest? The Influence of the Collegiate Religious and Spiritual Climate on Students’ Worldview Commitment
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The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between the collegiate religious, spiritual, and ideological climate and worldview commitment. As part of this process, 1,071 students responded to t...
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The purpose of this paper was to explore innovative entrepreneurship and to gain insight into the educational practices and experiences that increase the likelihood that a student would graduate with innovativ...
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A Multi-level Examination of College and Its Influence on Ecumenical Worldview Development
This multi-level, longitudinal study investigated the ecumenical worldview development of 13,932 students enrolled in one of 126 institutions. Results indicated that the final hierarchical linear model, consis...
