Peer-reviewed manuscripts and manuscripts under review authored or co-authored by Office of Decision Support researchers and partners. Sessions, posters, and invited talks appear on our Presentations page.
- Garza, T., Shi, Q., Li, C., & Zhang, S. (2026). Assessing learning strategies among Hispanic engineering students in a redesigned first-year experience course. Journal of Latinos and Education, 25(1), 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2025.2497530
- Calkins, M. C., Crooker, J. R., & Shi, Q. (2025). Examining the relationship between grading leniency and reliability during the COVID shock. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 25(6), 33-53. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v25i6
- Zhang, S., Shi, Q., Garza, T., & Li, C. (2024). Exploring first-year engineering undergraduates’ learning strategies and academic performance. Journal of Education and Lifelong Development Research, 1(2), 58-71. https://doi.org/10.46690/elder.2024.02.02
- Shi, Q., Cresiski, R. H., Thanki, S., & Navarrete, L. (2023). Unlocking undergraduate student success: A study of high-impact practices in a comprehensive and diverse college. Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2(4), 83-107. https://doi.org/10.33009/fsop_jpss131207
- Shi, Q., Crooker, R. J., Drum, C. R., & Drake, B. M. (2021). Investigation of the effect of first-year seminars on student success. Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 33(2), 65-95. This paper won the 2021 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award.
- Cresiski, R. H., Shi, Q., Thanki, S., & Navarrete, L. (2021). Undergraduate research at a teaching-oriented college: Seniors’ perspectives and approaches to consider. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21(1), 131-151. https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v21i1.30353
- Tucker, K., Sharp, G., Shi, Q., Scinta, T., & Thanki, S. (2020). Fostering historically underserved students’ success: An embedded peer support model that merges non-cognitive principles with proven academic support practice. Review of Higher Education, 43(3), 861-885. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2020.0010
- Marineo, F., & Shi, Q. (2019). Supporting student success in the First-Year Experience: Library instruction in the Learning Management System. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 13(1-2), 40-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533290X.2018.1499235
- Drake, B. M. & Walz, A. (2018). Evolving business intelligence and data analytics in higher education. New Directions for Institutional Research, 178, 39-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/ir.20266