Measures the relationship between high-impact practice participation and engagement at community colleges, highlighting implications for policy and practice.
Key Points
To assess how participation in high-impact practices relates to student engagement at community colleges, considering background and institutional factors.
Analyzed data from 79,755 respondents to the Community College Survey of Student Engagement.
Employed hierarchical linear modeling to test relationships at both student and institutional levels.
Examined three engagement measures: academic challenge, support for learners, and student-faculty interaction.
Nearly all student-level high-impact practices showed positive relationships with engagement measures.
Specific HIPs like class attendance and tutoring had the most significant effects.
Institutional average participation also positively correlated with engagement, but to a lesser extent.