Verbal, Quantitative & Subject-Matter Competence/Cognitive Skills & Intellectual Growth
A student demonstrates this when they solve real-world problems using learned statistical or mathematical concepts.
What is quantitative competence?
This term refers to a person’s feelings, predispositions, or evaluations toward something.
What are attitudes?
This term describes the process by which a person begins to form their own beliefs and identity.
What is self-authorship?
This involves participation in community and society.
What is civic engagement?
This sampling technique involves participants recruiting others.
What is snowball sampling?
The ability to evaluate evidence and arguments is part of this type of growth.
What is intellectual growth?
Developing a sense of personal values, beliefs, and identity during college illustrates this component of psychosocial change.
What is identity formation.
This term describes the increasing complexity in the ability to differentiate good (or right) behavior, intentions and decisions from those that are bad (or wrong).
What is moral development?
This type of study in higher education explores questions like, “How do students experience the gender, racial, or campus climate?”
What is campus climate studies.
This is a number between 0 and 1(both inclusive) that describes the likelihood of an event occurring.
What is probability?
Interpreting a regression output and explaining its meaning in words demonstrates the integration of these two competencies.
What are quantitative and verbal competence?
This theory explains stages of identity development during young adulthood.
What is psychosocial development theory?
I am sometimes used interchangeably with moral development and involve learning to make principled decisions.
What is ethical development?
We are two connected terms in higher education: one is the process of collecting and evaluating evidence, and the other is the use of that evidence to improve learning outcomes.
what is assessment and evaluation?
This qualitative method involves in-depth study of a single group or case.
What is a case study?
A student correctly performs statistical calculations but cannot explain the results in context; this competency is lacking.
What is verbal competence?
When college students reflect on ethical issues, social justice, or environmental responsibility, they are developing these internal guides that influence attitudes and behaviors.
What are values?
This aspect of self-authorship involves forming a clear sense of personal identity and internal belief system, which guides decisions across different areas of life.
What is intrapersonal development?
While this type of study in higher education measures how satisfied students are with programs and services on campus, the other study measures how many students actually use those programs or services.
What are satisfaction studies and utilization studies?
In Astin’s I-E-O model, confounding variables are most closely associated with this component.
What are inputs?
This type of reasoning goes beyond formal logic and recognizes that answers may be context-dependent and relative.
what is postformal reasoning?
A student who learns to navigate diverse social groups, manages stress effectively, forms a clear sense of identity, and develops empathy for others is demonstrating advanced growth in this area of college development.
What is psychosocial change?
A college student evaluates a complex ethical dilemma, considering societal rules, personal principles, and potential consequences before deciding what to do. This demonstrates advanced growth in this area.
What is postconventional thinking?
This type of assessment examines how students' characteristics, college experiences influence their learning, development and career outcomes.
What is assessment based on the IEO model?
A researcher studies the effect of feedback on student performance but does not account for students’ prior knowledge, which influences both the type of feedback they use and their performance. This overlooked factor represents this type of variable.
What is a confounding variable?