2017
DOI: 10.5860/crl.78.6.812
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The Impact of Academic Library Resources on Undergraduates’ Degree Completion

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of first-year undergraduates' (n = 5,368) use of academic library resources in their first year on their degree completion or continued enrollment after four years of study. Propensity score matching techniques were used to construct treatment (library users) and control (library nonusers) groups with similar background characteristics and college experiences. The results suggest that using the library at least one time in the first year of enrollment signifi… Show more

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“…95 One form of analysis is propensity score matching, where target students are paired and compared to students with similar characteristics from a control group. 96 Most studies run analyses at the individual student level, though a small portion of studies perform analytics on aggregated data such as from IPEDS or library association statistics. 97…”
Section: Academic Library Participation In Learning Analyticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…95 One form of analysis is propensity score matching, where target students are paired and compared to students with similar characteristics from a control group. 96 Most studies run analyses at the individual student level, though a small portion of studies perform analytics on aggregated data such as from IPEDS or library association statistics. 97…”
Section: Academic Library Participation In Learning Analyticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A significant number of studies, 46 of the 54 examined, imply transferring individual-level data between the library and a central university office (Allison, 2015;Black & Murphy, 2017;Bowles-Terry, 2012;Çetin & Howard, 2016;Collins & Stone, 2014;Coulter, Clarke, & Scamman, 2007;Cox & Jantti, 2012a, 2012bde Jager et al, 2018;Fransen & Peterson, 2016;Goodall & Pattern, 2011;Haddow, 2013;Haddow & Joseph, 2010;Jantti, 2016;Jantti & Cox, 2013;J. L. Jones, 2010;Kot & Jones, 2015;LeMaistre, 2015;LeMaistre et al, 2018;Massengale, Piotrowski, & Savage, 2016;McCarthy, 2017;Montenegro et al, 2016;Murray et al, 2016;Nackerud et al, 2012Nackerud et al, , 2013Odeh, 2012;Pepper & Jantti, 2015;Renaud et al, 2015;Scarletto et al, 2013;Scott, 2014;Soria et al, 2014Soria et al, , 2017aSoria et al, , 2017bSoria et al, , 2013Soria et al, , 2015Squibb & Mikkelsen, 2016;Stemmer & Mahan, 2015Stone, Pattern, & Ramsden, 2012;Thorpe et al, 2016;…”
Section: Securitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Simply removing names and ID does not protect small subpopulations of users that are easier to reidentify within a data set. Three studies have been published showing small ethnic populations of under 20 students, including American Indian or Native American (n=8) and Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (n=4) students (Soria et al, 2014); and Hawaiian (n=18) students (Soria et al, 2017b); and Native American (n = 3) and Pacific Islander (n = 2) students (citation omitted in order to protect students' identities). Alarmingly, the latter study further winnows demographic information down to examples of (n=1), drastically increasing the possibility of reidentification.…”
Section: Anonymizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Similarly, Stone and Ramsden, from the University of Huddersfield, conducted a study at eight UK universities that was able to confirm a statistically significant relationship between book borrowing or electronic resource access and student success, but not between entry into the library and student success (2013: 554). More recent studies, using robust methodology and undertaken at the University of Minnesota by the Office of Institutional Research and the Library of the University of Minnesota, have also successfully demonstrated the positive correlation between library use and undergraduate performance (Soria, Fransen and Nackerud 2017;Soria, Fransen and Nackerud 2016).…”
Section: Disadvantaged Undergraduate Studentsmentioning
confidence: 99%