The Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic.

Leseprobe

Economic Models and Policy Analysis in Higher Education: a Diagrammatic Exposition; Michael B. Paulsen and Robert K. Toutkoushian.- Rankings and Classifications in Higher Education: A European Perspective; Marijk van der Wende.- Institutional Transformation and the Advancement of Women Faculty: The Case of Academic Science and Engineering; Mary Frank Fox.- The State, the Market and the Institutional Estate: Revisiting Contemporary Authority Relations in Higher Education; Brian Pusser.- Interests, Information, and Incentives in Higher Education: Principal-agent Theory and its Potential Applications to the Study of Higher Education Governance; Jason Lane and Jussi Kivisto.- Toward a Theory of Faculty Professional Choices in Teaching that Foster College Student Success; John Braxton.- Financial Aid and Student Dropout in Higher Education: a Heterogeneous Research Approach; Rong Chen.- Theorizing Research Policy: a Framework for Higher Education; Amy Scott Metcalfe.- Studying the Effectiveness of Programs and Initiatives in Higher Education Using the Regression-Discontinuity Design; Sally Lesik.- From Creation to Cultural Resistance and Expansion: Research on American Indian Higher Education; Roger Geertz Gonzalez.- Using Holland¿s Theory to Study Patterns of College Student Success: the Impact of Major Fields on Students; Kenneth A. Feldman et al.- Contents of Previous Volumes.- Contributors.- Subject Index.- Author Index.