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Student Typologies and the Study of College Outcomes
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 11, Number 3, Spring 1988
- pp. 247-257
- 10.1353/rhe.1988.0018
- Article
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Student typologies can help classify subgroups to study student outcomes. This essay presents a simple empirical example to demonstrate how a motivation theory for grouping students in a study can help identify predictors of a measure of satisfaction with college and suggests how the student typologies may be used to study college outcomes.