The Underestimated Significance of Practitioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student Success

By E. Bensimon. 2007

445 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a560299b6d59a1f42c06647a8c5f58d6f903bf7f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Education

In Political Science and International Relations

Citations in the corpus

First-Generation College Students as Academic Learners: A Systematic Review (2020, background): “This overreliance on a few theories is understandable given that the norm in the academy is to cite seminal works, even at the cost of underciting relevant scholarship by racially minoritized scholars (Bensimon, 2007; Harris & Patton, 2019; Patton & Njoku, 2019).”
The Impact of Faculty and Staff on High-Risk College Student Persistence (2011, background): “A similar portrait is painted in a study of 10 economically disadvantaged college students who successfully transferred from open-admissions community colleges to the most selective institutions in America (Pak, Bensimon, Malcolm, Marquez, & Park, 2006, as cited in Bensimon, 2007). Each student spok”
Socio-Academic Integrative Moments: Rethinking Academic and Social Integration among Two-Year College Students in Career-Related Programs (2011, background): “These studies, combined with the critiques of Guiffrida (2006), Tierney (1992, 1999), and Bensimon (2007), inform a need to focus on the role of the institutionally-located people who make success possible for students often thought to be atrisk of non-persistence and on the institutional spaces…”
Dimensions of the Transfer Choice Gap: Experiences of Latina and Latino Students Who Navigated Transfer Pathways (2009, background): “One interpretation of these stories would focus, as many analysts and practitioners have (Bensimon, 2007), on student effort, in D ow nloaded from http://m eridian.allenpress.com /her/article-pdf/79/4/632/2097499/haer_79_4_05w 66u23662k1444.pdf by C AL PO LY STATE U N IV user on 23 February…”
A Structural Model of the Relationship Between Student–Faculty Interaction and Cognitive Skills Development Among College Students (2015, background): “Though student mentoring is rarely factored into tenure decisions, faculty mentors are central to the success of minoritized students (Bensimon 2007; Reddick and Sáenz 2012).”
Delineating the Ways That Key Institutional Agents Provide Racial Minority Students With Access to Social Capital in College (2012, background): “Indeed, the dominant paradigm that empha sizes students’ role in determining their outcomes and lack of attention paid to the role of practitioners in determining the success of their students has been noted as a critical limitation of higher education research (Bensimon, 2007).”
"They Never Told Me What to Expect, So I Didn't Know What to Do": Defining and Clarifying the Role of a Community College Student (2012, background): “5 of postsecondary education culture and—perhaps most importantly—potentially successful college students can help them persist (Bensimon, 2007; Cox, 2009; Rendon, 1994; Rendon et al., 2000; Tierney, 1999).”
A Tangled Web of Terms: The Overlap and Unique Contribution of Involvement, Engagement, and Integration to Understanding College Student Success (2009, background): “Bensimon (2007) raised pointed questions about overreliance on the “dominant paradigm,” a phrase she used as an umbrella term for current epistemology motivating quantitative studies of student success that include variables such as student background characteristics; structural characteristics of…”
Student dropout at university: a phase-orientated view on quitting studies and changing majors (2021, background): “An aspect that we did not account for is the support of university instructors that can also be essential for successful integration (Bensimon, 2007).”
Factorial Structure and Invariance Analysis of the Sense of Belonging Scales (2010, background): “In a subsequently published article, Bensimon (2007) takes notice that more than 700 works have cited Tinto’s (1993) work.”
Toward a New Understanding of Non-Academic Student Support: Four Mechanisms Encouraging Positive Student Outcomes in the Community College. CCRC Working Paper No. 28. Assessment of Evidence Series. (2011, background): “Bensimon (2007), for example, discusses the ways that “institutional agents” can encourage student success by providing interpersonal connections, advice, motivation, and information.”
Student engagement evidence summary (2010, background): “…and participation in extra-mural activities, such as membership of university sports teams or clubs and societies, leading to concerns from some (see Bensimon, 2007, Harper and Quaye, 2009) about whether the assumptions underlying the conceptualisation of engagement apply equally to…”
What Student Affairs Professionals Need to Know About Student Engagement (2009, background): “Some have understandably and correctly sounded cautionary notes about whether the assumptions on which the engagement construct rest apply more to full-time, traditional-age, and residential students, and less to students from historically underserved groups (Bensimon, 2007; Harper & Quaye, 2008).”
Funds of knowledge for the poor and forms of capital for the rich? A capital approach to examining funds of knowledge (2011, methodology): “…of knowledge has been used to provide an alternative explanation for the variation in Latina/o students’ academic and non-academic outcomes (Rios-Aguilar, 2010), and to understand underrepresented students’ transitions to college (Bensimon, 2007; Kiyama, 2010; RiosAguilar and Kiyama, forthcoming).”
Student Engagement and Institutional Graduation Rates: Identifying High-Impact Educational Practices for Community Colleges (2014, background): “24 Bensimon, E. M. (2007). The underestimated significance of practitioner knowledge in the scholarship on student success. The Review of Higher Education, 30(4), 441469. Bozick, R. (2007). Making it through the first year of college: The role of students' economic resources, employment, and living ”
The Role of Faculty, Counselors, and Support Programs on Latino/a Community College Students’ Success and Intent to Persist (2015, background): “Whereas, many studies have examined student success (Bensimon, 2007; Núñez, Hoover, Pickett, Stuart-Carruthers, & Vázquez, 2013; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005; Zalaquett 1Santa Monica College, CA, USA Corresponding Author: Esau Tovar, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405,…”
Rethinking the Course Syllabus: Considerations for Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (2020, background): “Moreover, equity-minded campuses reflect critically on the roles and responsibilities of all the relevant stake-holders (e.g., students, faculty, administration, and professional staff) and examine how they contribute to an inequitable culture (Bensimon, 2007; as cited in Harris & Wood, 2020).”