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Ernest T. Pascarella

Ernest T. Pascarella

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
100
Citations
58497
World Ranking
91
National Ranking
48

Overview

Ernest T. Pascarella was affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on education and its various dimensions.

The main fields of study in which Pascarella contributed included:

  • Social Sciences

Within these domains, their work spanned several subfields, including:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Social Psychology

Pascarella's research topics covered numerous aspects of higher education and teaching practices. The key themes they explored were:

  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Mentoring and Academic Development

Their recent published papers provide insight into these areas of study. These include:

  • "What We Talk about When We Talk about Rigor: Examining Conceptions of Academic Rigor," published in 2021 in The Journal of Higher Education
  • "How Students' Intellectual Orientations and Cognitive Reasoning Abilities and May Shape Their Perceptions of Good Teaching Practices," published in 2021 in Research in Higher Education
  • "Does Language Background Have an Effect on the Development of Psychological Well-Being During College?" published in 2020 in Journal of College Student Development
  • "Reproduction of Educational Disadvantage? Examining the Bachelor's Degree Attainment, College GPA, and Graduate Degree Plan of Non-Native English-Speaking Students," published in 2022 in Journal of Language Identity & Education
  • "Non-Native English Speakers and the Development of Socially Responsible Leadership During College," published in 2022 in Journal of College Student Development

Pascarella collaborated frequently with several scholars during their career. These frequent coauthors were:

  • Jiajun Liu
  • K. C. Culver
  • John M. Braxton
  • Nicholas A. Bowman
  • Qian Wang

The most common publication venues where Pascarella's work appeared were:

  • Journal of College Student Development
  • The Journal of Higher Education
  • Research in Higher Education
  • Journal of Language Identity & Education

Best Publications

  • How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • How college affects students : findings and insights from twenty years of research

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • Predicting Freshman Persistence and Voluntary Dropout Decisions from a Theoretical Model

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • First-Generation College Students: Additional Evidence on College Experiences and Outcomes.

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Christopher T. Pierson;Gregory C. Wolniak;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research. Volume 2.

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • First-Generation College Students: Characteristics, Experiences, and Cognitive Development.

    Patrick T. Terenzini;Leonard Springer;Patricia M. Yaeger;Ernest T. Pascarella

  • Student-Faculty Informal Contact and College Outcomes

    Ernest T. Pascarella

  • A Multiinstitutional, Path Analytic Validation of Tinto’s Model of College Withdrawal

    Ernest T. Pascarella;David W. Chapman

  • Campus Racial Climate and the Adjustment of Students to College: A Comparison Between White Students and African-American Students.

    Alberto F. Cabrera;Amaury Nora;Patrick T. Terenzini;Ernest Pascarella

  • Predicting voluntary freshman year persistence/withdrawal behavior in a residential university: A path analytic validation of Tinto's model.

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • Students' Out-of-Class Experiences and Their Influence on Learning and Cognitive Development: A Literature Review.

    Patrick T. Terenzini;Ernest T. Pascarella;Gregory S. Blimling

  • Studying College Students in the 21st Century: Meeting New Challenges

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • Influences on students' openness to diversity and challenge in the first year of college

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Marcia Edison;Amaury Nora;Linda Serra Hagedorn

  • Patterns of Student-Faculty Informal Interaction beyond the Classroom and Voluntary Freshman Attrition

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • Interactive Influences in Spady and Tinto's Conceptual Models of College Attrition.

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini

  • Long-term persistence of two-year college students

    Ernest T. Pascarella;John C. Smart;Corinna A. Ethington

  • A Test and Reconceptualization of a Theoretical Model of College Withdrawal in a Commuter Institution Setting.

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Paul B. Duby;Barbara K. Iverson

  • Orientation to college and freshman year persistence/withdrawal decisions.

    Ernest T. Pascarella;Patrick T. Terenzini;Lee M. Wolfle

  • Going Global: Understanding the Choice Process of the Intent to Study Abroad

    Mark H. Salisbury;Paul D. Umbach;Michael B. Paulsen;Ernest T. Pascarella

  • The Link between High-Impact Practices and Student Learning: Some Longitudinal Evidence.

    Cindy A. Kilgo;Jessica K. Ezell Sheets;Ernest T. Pascarella

  • Voluntary freshman attrition and patterns of social and academic integration in a university: A test of a conceptual model

    Patrick T. Terenzini;Ernest T. Pascarella

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick T. Terenzini
Patrick T. Terenzini Pennsylvania State University
Amaury Nora
Amaury Nora The University of Texas at San Antonio
Linda Serra Hagedorn
Linda Serra Hagedorn Iowa State University
John C. Smart
John C. Smart University of Illinois at Chicago
Herbert J. Walberg
Herbert J. Walberg University of Illinois at Chicago
Alberto F. Cabrera
Alberto F. Cabrera University of Maryland, College Park
David W. Chapman
David W. Chapman University of Minnesota
John M. Braxton
John M. Braxton Vanderbilt University
Paul D. Umbach
Paul D. Umbach North Carolina State University
George D. Kuh
George D. Kuh Indiana University

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