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College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Instructor Messages about Student Success

Hoops, Leah D.
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9161-2640
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492690711368004

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
This mixed model study used student surveys (N = 153) and interviews (N = 16) from undergraduate students enrolled in 10 sections of a Student Success Course at a large Midwestern research institution to investigate relationships between students’ perceptions of instructor messages about student success and their sense of belonging in college and a particular classroom. Using an equal status sequential mixed model design guided by the pragmatist research paradigm, this study provides a number of findings that add to the literature on how institutional experiences influence college students’ sense of belonging. First, findings from the current study indicate that instructor expectancy messages about student success are positively related to students’ sense of belonging at both the University- and classroom-level. Second, the meaning that each student makes of instructor messages deferentially contributes to their sense of belonging. Third, students’ race/ethnicity does not play a substantial role in either of these relationships. In addition to findings, implications for practice, research, and theory are explored.
Christopher Wolters, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Susan Jones, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Tatiana Suspitsyna, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
232 p.
Educational Psychology; Higher Education
Sense of Belonging; College Student Success; College Instruction; Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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  • Hoops, L. D. (2017). College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Instructor Messages about Student Success [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492690711368004

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hoops, Leah. College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Instructor Messages about Student Success. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492690711368004.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hoops, Leah. "College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Instructor Messages about Student Success." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492690711368004

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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