Journal article
Conceptualizing Openness to Diversity and Challenge: Its Relation to College Experiences, Achievement, and Retention
Innovative higher education, Vol.39(4), pp.277-291
08/01/2014
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-014-9281-8
Abstract
Openness to diversity and challenge (ODC) constitutes an integral outcome of the undergraduate experience. However, ODC may also serve as a form of generalized openness to experience; if so, then it should be positively related to a host of college experiences as well as student success. The study reported here explored this possibility within a longitudinal sample of 8,475 first-year students at 46 institutions. Results of hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that ODC is positively and significantly related to several broad measures of college experiences and first-year GPA, and it is also a marginally significant predictor of first-to-second year retention.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Conceptualizing Openness to Diversity and Challenge: Its Relation to College Experiences, Achievement, and Retention
- Creators
- Nicholas A. Bowman - Bowling Green State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Innovative higher education, Vol.39(4), pp.277-291
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10755-014-9281-8
- ISSN
- 0742-5627
- eISSN
- 1573-1758
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- Center of Inquiry at Wabash College
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984283723902771
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