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Measuring how college affects students: Social desirability and other potential biases in college student self-reported gains
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Measuring how college affects students: Social desirability and other potential biases in college student self-reported gains

Nicholas A. Bowman and Patrick L. Hill
New directions for institutional research, Vol.2011(150), pp.73-85
06/2011
DOI: 10.1002/ir.390

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Abstract

This chapter examines some possible biases evident in college students' self-reported gains, particularly social desirability and general tendencies to report gains, which appear to strongly influence the gains reported by first-year students.

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