Table 1: Indicators of Quality of the Undergraduate Experience

1. Context or environment

Institutional size

Institutional purpose

Formal and informal organizational properties

Financial resources

Student living environment

2. Input

Ability

Biographical characteristics

Nonintellective characteristics

3. Involvement

Involvement with peers

Instruction

Informal faculty-student interaction

Student effort

4. Outcome

Persistence

Achievement

Intellectual and social emotional development

Alumni

Source: Kuh, George D. Indices of Quality in the Undergraduate Experience. AAHE-ERIC/Higher Education Research Report No. 4. Washington, D.C.:American Association for Higher Education, 1981.