They also find, however, that at every college studied some students show great improvement on the CLA. In general, these are students who spent more time studying (especially studying alone), took courses with more required reading and writing, and had more demanding faculty. This pattern fits well into conclusions by education researchers Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini, who summarized more than twenty years of research in their book How College Affects Students. They write that “the impact of college is largely determined by individual effort and involvement in the academic,
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