OCAIR's members are always eager to share their knowledge and tips with each other. Among them is Mr. Willard, Hom, Director of Research in the Academic Planning & Development unit in the Chancellor's Office of California Community Colleges. Over the year, Willard Hom shared his book extracts and other research work with the group and below is a partial collection of them.

THANK YOU, Willard!

 

 

Categories

• Abstracts and Thoughts
• Journal Articles and Working Papers

Abstracts and Thoughts

1. Merit Aid Effects: the Dynarski Study (10/13/2008)
2. Looking for Answers in All the Right Places (7/1/2008)
3. Neighborhood Effects & African American College Aspiration (6/2/2008)
4. Factors in College Stopout & Dropout (6/1/2008)
5. Student Flow Analysis (2/22/2008)
6. Writing for a Peer-Reviewed Journal (2/22/2008)
7. The Shrinkage of Access to Postsecondary Education (1/18/2008)
8. Cautions About the Regression Effect (12/7/2007)
9. Female College Completion: An Analysis by Economists (8/3/2007)
10. Female College Completion: An Analysis by Sociologists (8/3/2007)
11. Four-Year Degree Attainment: The Student Loan Effect (8/3/2007)
12. Do Girls Really Differ from Boys in Math & Science? (5/7/2007)
13. An Unrealistic Climb in Educational Ambitions? (4/12/2007)
14. Goals and Outcomes of Community College Students in the U.S. (4/2/2007)
15. Aspirations of High School Seniors: A Los Angeles Study (2/22/2007)
16. The Effects of Bilingualism on Hispanic Earnings (1/29/2007)
17. Individual-level Wage Data Before-and-After Program Completion (11/28/2006)
18. An Intervention to Cut the Black-White Achievement Gap (11/9/2006)
19. A National Study of Part-Time Faculty & Student Graduation (11/9/2006)
20. Benefits of Perceived Effort (6/8/2006)
21. A Review of the Literature on Online Teaching (5/31/2006)
22. Is Acting White Part of the Achievement Gap? (5/23/2006)
23. Faculty Evaluations as Beauty Contests (5/23/2006)
24. Choosing Between SAS, Stata, and SPSS (5/8/2006)
25. Student Ethnicity and Contact With Community College Faculty (4/24/2006)
26. In Higher Education While Working (4/3/2006)
27. Less Work and More School for Teens? (4/3/2006)
28. Community College Student Persistence and Student Loans (4/3/2006)
29. Some Important Tips for Factor Analysis (12/1/2005)
30. Advice on Confidence Intervals (11/23/2005)
31. Long-term Impacts of Perceived College Costs (11/20/2005)
32. New Evidence on How Community Colleges Help Increase Earnings (8/26/2005)
33. Recency effect in student evaluations of teachers (or SETS) (7/22/2005)
34. More About Handling/Reporting Results from Low Survey Response Rates (7/8/2005)
35. Potential "gray peril" for education (6/6/2005)
36. Recent NBER study on collegeremediation effectivness (5/26/2005)
37. Psychological Assessment of API College Students (3/3/2005)
38. Teacher Immediacy’s Effect on Student Learning (3/3/2005)
39. Classification Differences Between Linear Discriminant Analysis and Logistic Regression (2/14/2005)
40. Predictors of Dental Hygiene Test Results (2/3/2005)
41. Survey Response Rates: Web vs. Mail (1/31/2005)
42. Is Distance Learning Equal To Face-To-Face? (9/16/2004)
43. Does the “Horizontal” Transfer Hurt or Help? (9/16/2004)
44. A Qualitative Study Exploring Black Student Success and Family Ties (9/1/2004)
45. The Link Between Attitude Toward Math and Math Achievement (8/25/2004)
46. On Evaluating California’s Community Colleges (8/25/2004)
47. A Test of the Intensive Course Format vs. the Semester-Length Format (7/26/2004)
48. Wages: An Incomplete Measure of Labor Outcomes (7/26/2004)
49. The Need for Institutional Researchers (7/6/2004)
50. Potential Advantage of Institutions with Less Selective Admissions (6/21/2004)
51. A Sobering Benefit of Diversity in Higher Education (5/19/2004)
52. Community Colleges as a Bridge to Science & Engineering Degrees (5/17/2004)
53. On Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Latino Families (5/7/2004)
54. Some Rules for Online Research (5/2/2004)
55. A Model for Researching Student Commitment (4/1/2004)
56. Factors That Stress Community College Deans (4/1/2004)
57. Biculturalism and Persistence (3/13/2004)
58. Secondary Benefit of College Education (3/13/2004)
59. Control of the Internet in Higher Education (3/13/2004)
60. Motivation of Black Students in Higher Education (3/13/2004)
61. Grading Accountability Report Cards (3/1/2004)
62. Predictors of Retention and GPA--Meta-Analysis on 109 Studies (2/1/2004)
63. Disidentification Theory and Black Academic Achievement (1/1/2004)

Back to Categories

Journal Articles and Working Papers

1. The Function of Focus Group Method in Research (10/31/2003)
2. Applying Customer Satisfaction Theory to Community College Planning of Student Services
3. Questions for Evaluation of Proposed Programs
4. Planning Research on Student Services: Variety in Research
5. Results of the Survey of RP Group Members: An Element in Strategic Planning for the Research & Planning Unit
6. the pitfall of using signficance tests on data that are not strictly independent observations

Back to Categories