caa a22 4500 445326956 CHVBK 20180317142724.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11162-011-9219-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11162-011-9219-2 Johnson Iryna Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Auburn University, 203 Samford Hall, 36849-5111, Auburn, AL, USA aut Contingent Instructors and Student Outcomes: An Artifact or a Fact? [Elektronische Daten] [Iryna Johnson] This study addresses methodological problems surrounding existing research on exposure to contingent instructors and student outcomes. By applying non-aggregated and aggregated measures of exposure to contingent instructors to the same data, this analysis demonstrates that effects of commonly used measures of exposure to contingent instructors have little to do with actual contingent instructor effects on student outcomes. Two multi-level approaches—cross-classified and multiple membership models—are applied in the single-institution analysis of faculty status effect on student outcomes—grades and first year retention. The analysis showed no variability in student retention and a significant variability in grades by faculty characteristics. Compared to their tenured and tenure-track peers, contingent instructors are more likely to assign higher grades, which may lead to lowered levels of academic challenge and student motivation to do their best work. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Contingent instructors nationallicence Retention nationallicence College grade performance nationallicence Multilevel models nationallicence Cross-classified models nationallicence Multiple membership models nationallicence Research in Higher Education Springer Netherlands 52/8(2011-12-01), 761-785 0361-0365 52:8<761 2011 52 11162 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-011-9219-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-011-9219-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnson Iryna Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Auburn University, 203 Samford Hall, 36849-5111, Auburn, AL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Springer Netherlands 52/8(2011-12-01), 761-785 0361-0365 52:8<761 2011 52 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer