Thread by @LitchMingo

@WeiLinChen16 and I completed a Latent Class Analysis on the Wabash Study data from @UIowaEducation in Research in Higher Education w/@SpringerNature . The LCA includes 28 outside-of-the-classroom activities and behaviors. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We found ten classes of first-year student engagement:
-academic artists-8.3%
-party athletes-7.7%
-serious athletes-6.1%
-conventional non-workers-12%
-disengaged-14%
-maximizers-5.2%
-moderate workers-7.6%
detached partiers-14.2%
-involved partiers-14.1%
-religious-11%.

Students reporting as first-generation and some racially minoritized groups are overrepresented in the disengaged and underrepresented involved partier classes, while racially minoritized students alone were overrepresented among academic artists.

We found an overrepresentation of White students across all party classes. Students reporting as female were likelier to be members of the religious, moderate worker, and disengaged classes and not to be members of the party classes.

Federal grant recipients were likelier to be in the academic artist and moderate worker classes. Plenty more is discussed in the paper. This is where we wanted to end, but a reviewer wanted more!

We found that the academic artists far exceeded all students. Involved partier, moderate worker, and religious classes also did very well in their first year, but the detached partier had the worst first year of college. Though the party athlete had one of the worst GPAs,

they had some of the highest second- and fourth-year retention rates. There is a lot in the read skipped, but we follow the analysis with a healthy discussion. This was going to be a 2020 @AERADiv_J presentation, but you know.

Data is #SLAC heavy. So #highered can take that what they will. Shoutouts for help and support from the reviewers, @jmichaeltilley, @kelly_rosinger, @meghanoster, & my twitter anonnymous spouse.

@WeiLinChen16 @UIowaEducation @SpringerNature @threadreaderapp unroll please

@jmichaeltilley @kelly_rosinger @meghanoster If you want a copy, feel free to send me a message. -Mitch