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518 Journal of College Student DevelopmentStudent Involvement: A Developmental Theoryfor Higher EducationAlexander W. AstinA Student development Theory based on studentinvolvement is presented and described, and theimplications for practice and research a casual reading of the extensive literatureon Student development in Higher education cancreate confusion and perplexity. One finds notonly that the problems being studied are highlydiverse but also that investigators who claim tobe studying the same problem frequently do notlook at the same variables or employ the samemethodologies. And even when they are investi-gating the same variables, different investigatorsmay use completely different terms to describeand discuss these own interest in articulating a Theory ofstudent development is partly practical I wouldlike to bring some order into the chaos of theliterature and partly self-protective. I andincreasingly bewildered by the muddle offindings that have emerged from my ownresearch in Student development, research that Ihave been engaged in for more than 20 Theory of Student involvement that Idescribe in this article appeals to me for severalreasons.
influences on student development that re-searchers have gained over the years. Third, it is capable of embracing principles from such widely divergent sources as psychoanalysis and classical learning theory. Finally, this theory of student involvement can be used both by researchers to guide their investigation of student
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