By Design: Planning Research on Higher Education
- ISBN-10
- 0674040260
- ISBN-13
- 9780674040267
- Series
- By Design
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-30
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Richard J. Light, John B. Willett, Richard J Light
Description
Do students who work longer and harder learn more in college? Does joining a fraternity with a more academic flavor enhance a student's academic performance? These are just some more than fifty examples that Richard Light Judith Singer and John Willett explore in By Design, a lively nontechnical sourcebook for learning about colleges and universities.
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