OCAIR

Overseas Chinese Association for Institutional Research
An AIR Affiliate That Supports IR Professionals Since 1996

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!

 

 

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Abstracts and Thoughts

  1. In-State Tuition for the Undocumented: the Kaushal Study (2/18/2009)
  2. Importance of Education for African-American Males (1/28/2009)
  3. Merit Aid Effects: the Dynarski Study (10/13/2008)
  4. Looking for Answers in All the Right Places (7/1/2008)
  5. Neighborhood Effects & African American College Aspiration (6/2/2008)
  6. Factors in College Stopout & Dropout (6/1/2008)
  7. Student Flow Analysis (2/22/2008)
  8. Writing for a Peer-Reviewed Journal (2/22/2008)
  9. The Shrinkage of Access to Postsecondary Education (1/18/2008)
  10. Cautions About the Regression Effect (12/7/2007)
  11. Female College Completion: An Analysis by Economists (8/3/2007)
  12. Female College Completion: An Analysis by Sociologists (8/3/2007)
  13. Four-Year Degree Attainment: The Student Loan Effect (8/3/2007)
  14. Do Girls Really Differ from Boys in Math & Science? (5/7/2007)
  15. An Unrealistic Climb in Educational Ambitions? (4/12/2007)
  16. Goals and Outcomes of Community College Students in the U.S. (4/2/2007)
  17. Aspirations of High School Seniors: A Los Angeles Study (2/22/2007)
  18. The Effects of Bilingualism on Hispanic Earnings (1/29/2007)
  19. Individual-level Wage Data Before-and-After Program Completion (11/28/2006)
  20. A National Study of Part-Time Faculty & Student Graduation (11/9/2006)
  21. An Intervention to Cut the Black-White Achievement Gap (11/9/2006)
  22. Benefits of Perceived Effort (6/8/2006)
  23. A Review of the Literature on Online Teaching (5/31/2006)
  24. Faculty Evaluations as Beauty Contests (5/23/2006)
  25. Is Acting White Part of the Achievement Gap? (5/23/2006)
  26. Choosing Between SAS, Stata, and SPSS (5/8/2006)
  27. Student Ethnicity and Contact With Community College Faculty (4/24/2006)
  28. Less Work and More School for Teens? (4/3/2006)
  29. In Higher Education While Working (4/3/2006)
  30. Community College Student Persistence and Student Loans (4/3/2006)
  31. Some Important Tips for Factor Analysis (12/1/2005)
  32. Advice on Confidence Intervals (11/23/2005)
  33. Long-term Impacts of Perceived College Costs (11/20/2005)
  34. New Evidence on How Community Colleges Help Increase Earnings (8/26/2005)
  35. Recency effect in student evaluations of teachers (or SETS) (7/22/2005)
  36. More About Handling/Reporting Results from Low Survey Response Rates (7/8/2005)
  37. Potential "gray peril" for education (6/6/2005)
  38. Recent NBER study on collegeremediation effectivness (5/26/2005)
  39. Psychological Assessment of API College Students (3/3/2005)
  40. Teacher Immediacy’s Effect on Student Learning (3/3/2005)
  41. Classification Differences Between Linear Discriminant Analysis and Logistic Regression (2/14/2005)
  42. Predictors of Dental Hygiene Test Results (2/3/2005)
  43. Survey Response Rates: Web vs. Mail (1/31/2005)
  44. Is Distance Learning Equal To Face-To-Face? (9/16/2004)
  45. Does the “Horizontal” Transfer Hurt or Help? (9/16/2004)
  46. A Qualitative Study Exploring Black Student Success and Family Ties (9/1/2004)
  47. The Link Between Attitude Toward Math and Math Achievement (8/25/2004)
  48. On Evaluating California’s Community Colleges (8/25/2004)
  49. A Test of the Intensive Course Format vs. the Semester-Length Format (7/26/2004)
  50. Wages: An Incomplete Measure of Labor Outcomes (7/26/2004)
  51. The Need for Institutional Researchers (7/6/2004)
  52. Potential Advantage of Institutions with Less Selective Admissions (6/21/2004)
  53. A Sobering Benefit of Diversity in Higher Education (5/19/2004)
  54. Community Colleges as a Bridge to Science & Engineering Degrees (5/17/2004)
  55. On Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Latino Families (5/7/2004)
  56. Some Rules for Online Research (5/2/2004)
  57. A Model for Researching Student Commitment (4/1/2004)
  58. Factors That Stress Community College Deans (4/1/2004)
  59. Biculturalism and Persistence (3/13/2004)
  60. Secondary Benefit of College Education (3/13/2004)
  61. Motivation of Black Students in Higher Education (3/13/2004)
  62. Control of the Internet in Higher Education (3/13/2004)
  63. Grading Accountability Report Cards (3/1/2004)
  64. Predictors of Retention and GPA--Meta-Analysis on 109 Studies (2/1/2004)
  65. Disidentification Theory and Black Academic Achievement (1/1/2004)
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Journal Articles and Working Papers

  1. The Function of Focus Group Method in Research (10/31/2003)
  2. Questions for Evaluation of Proposed Programs
  3. Applying Customer Satisfaction Theory to Community College Planning of Student Services
  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
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