The Impact of Interaction with Peers on College Student Development
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Since most college student development models take students’ interaction with peers as an important influential factor, by reviewing an amount of related literature, this paper summarized the impact of interaction with peers on college student development in the eight areas categorized by Pascarella and Terenzini. Based on a body of research conducted by analyzing national samples or some small particular samples, using meta-analysis, experiments, or statistical analysis, and controlling potential confounding variables or not, it can be found that interaction with peers have effects in varying degrees on college student development in various aspects.
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