NDLI: Classifying Community Colleges Based on Students’ Patterns of Use

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bahr, Peter Riley
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In this study, I draw on Bahr’s (Research in Higher Education 51:724–749, 2010; New Directions for Institutional Research S1:33–48, 2011) behavioral typology of first-time community college students to examine college-level variation in students’ patterns of use of 105 community colleges in California. I find that students’ patterns of use vary greatly across the colleges, and, further, these patterns tend to cluster in such a fashion that colleges may be classified based on dominant or disproportionate patterns of use. Using k-means cluster analysis, I identify five types of community colleges, including Community Education Intensive, Transfer Intensive, Workforce Development Intensive, High-Risk Intensive, and Mixed Use. I describe each of these community college types and then investigate whether the patterns of student use that characterize the identified types appear to be primarily a consequence of institutional policies and practices or, conversely, a product of localized community demand and the associated circumstances and choices of the students who attend a given college. The evidence, though limited, tends to support the latter: variation in patterns of student use across institutions appears to be primarily a product of localized community demand. Finally, I draw on established performance indicators to examine the implications of the identified patterns of student use for observed institutional performance. I find that institutions that differ in terms of dominant or disproportionate patterns of student use also differ significantly and systematically on a number of measures of institutional performance.
Starting Page	433
Ending Page	460
Page Count	28
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03610365
Journal	Research in Higher Education
Volume Number	54
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1573188X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-10-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Community college Accountability Performance Classification Type Typology Taxonomy Cluster analysis Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education

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