Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On February 24, 2025, Sara Goldrick-Rab, senior fellow at Education Northwest and sociology professor at the Community College of Philadelphia, spoke as part of the IRDL Scholars' Speaker Series at the William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
"Learning from Students: How Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Research Can Change What We 'Know.'"
Nearly 1 in 2 college students starts college but does not finish. Colleges and universities are full of professionals with opinions about why. This session will share what happened when researchers engaged in longitudinal mixed-methods research to examine this challenge among a group of 3,000 low-income students. We’ll think together about how iterative and multi-faceted data collection can facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge, test emerging hypotheses, and lead to new conclusions.
On February 24, 2025, Sara Goldrick-Rab, senior fellow at Education Northwest and sociology professor at the Community College of Philadelphia, spoke as part of the IRDL Scholars' Speaker Series at the William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
"Learning from Students: How Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Research Can Change What We 'Know.'"
Nearly 1 in 2 college students starts college but does not finish. Colleges and universities are full of professionals with opinions about why. This session will share what happened when researchers engaged in longitudinal mixed-methods research to examine this challenge among a group of 3,000 low-income students. We’ll think together about how iterative and multi-faceted data collection can facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge, test emerging hypotheses, and lead to new conclusions.
