| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The national survey of student engagement: Conceptual and empirical foundations | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2009 | 490 |
| 2 | Assessing intercultural competence | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2011 | 291 |
| 3 | Multiple surveys of students and survey fatigue | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2004 | 251 |
| 4 | An anti‐deficit achievement framework for research on students of color in STEM | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2010 | 215 |
| 5 | Understanding the College-Choice Process | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2000 | 194 |
| 6 | Self-reported data in institutional research: Review and recommendations | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2005 | 180 |
| 7 | Conceptualizing Faculty Job Satisfaction: Components, Theories, and Outcomes | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2000 | 170 |
| 8 | Student Ratings: Validity, Utility, and Controversy | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2001 | 156 |
| 9 | Improving the rate of success for underrepresented racial minorities in STEM fields: Insights from a national project | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2010 | 152 |
| 10 | Understanding academic culture and climate | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1990 | 132 |
| 11 | Deconstructing the model minority myth and how it contributes to the invisible minority reality in higher education research | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2009 | 126 |
| 12 | Competency-Based Learning Models: A Necessary Future | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2001 | 123 |
| 13 | Data Mining and Its Applications in Higher Education | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2002 | 118 |
| 14 | Major selection and persistence for women in STEM | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2011 | 115 |
| 15 | Raising response rates: What works? | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2004 | 114 |
| 16 | Looking for Bias in All the Wrong Places: A Search for Truth or a Witch Hunt in Student Ratings of Instruction? | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2001 | 109 |
| 17 | Key issues in the persistence of underrepresented minority students | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2006 | 100 |
| 18 | Answering critical questions using quantitative data | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2007 | 99 |
| 19 | Embedding and integrating employability | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2005 | 98 |
| 20 | Mapping the margins in higher education: On the promise of intersectionality frameworks in research and discourse | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2011 | 97 |
| 21 | Citizenship development and the American college student | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2004 | 95 |
| 22 | Web surveys: Best practices | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2004 | 81 |
| 23 | A process-oriented view of student motivation and cognition | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1988 | 79 |
| 24 | Developing and assessing college student teamwork skills | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2011 | 78 |
| 25 | Transition to College: What Helps At-Risk Students and Students Whose Parents Did Not Attend College | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2000 | 76 |
| 26 | Estimating student retention and degree-completion time: Decision trees and neural networks vis-à-vis regression | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2006 | 75 |
| 27 | Faculty cultures, faculty values | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1990 | 74 |
| 28 | Job Satisfaction Among Faculty of Color in Academe: Individual Survivors or Institutional Transformers? | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2000 | 69 |
| 29 | Conceptual models of student attrition: How theory can help the institutional researcher | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1982 | 67 |
| 30 | Total quality management in higher education | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1991 | 65 |
| 31 | Minority student retention: Resources for practitioners | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2005 | 65 |
| 32 | Investing in the future: The importance of faculty mentoring in the development of students of color in STEM | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2010 | 62 |
| 33 | Women of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2011 | 61 |
| 34 | Overview of Knowledge Management | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2002 | 60 |
| 35 | Using doctoral education to prepare faculty to work within Boyer's four domains of scholarship | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2006 | 60 |
| 36 | Attitudinal and structural factors contributing to challenges in the work of the scholarship of teaching and learning | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2006 | 59 |
| 37 | Contrasting perspectives on the relationship between teaching and research | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1996 | 55 |
| 38 | Increasing student retention in graduate and professional programs | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1996 | 55 |
| 39 | International Faculty in American Universities: Experiences of Academic Life, Productivity, and Career Mobility | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2012 | 50 |
| 40 | Critical Quantitative Inquiry in Context | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2014 | 50 |
| 41 | The Climate for Diversity: Key Issues for Institutional Self-Study | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1998 | 49 |
| 42 | Graduate attributes and their development | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2005 | 49 |
| 43 | How Do Student Ratings Measure Up to a New Validity Framework? | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2001 | 48 |
| 44 | The Financial Nexus Between College Choice and Persistence | New Directions for Institutional Research | 1997 | 47 |
| 45 | College and character: Insights from the national survey of student engagement | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2004 | 46 |
| 46 | Critical race theory and research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in higher education | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2009 | 45 |
| 47 | Using college students' self‐reported learning outcomes in scholarly research | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2011 | 45 |
| 48 | Overcoming the Tasks on the Path to College for America's Disadvantaged | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2000 | 42 |
| 49 | Race, ethnicity, and higher education policy: The use of critical quantitative research | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2007 | 42 |
| 50 | Improving Judgments About Teaching Effectiveness Using Teacher Rating Forms | New Directions for Institutional Research | 2001 | 40 |
