@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%.