John Hoffman will be a featured speaker at a one-day conference, "Exploring and Evaluating Spiritual Development in Students." The conference, sponsored by the Center for Educational Leadership, Innovation, and Policy at San Diego State University, will be held on March 16, 2007. Click here to view the conference brochure.
John presented Implementing a Comprehensive Assessment Program: Can I Get One Hour a Month? with Shauna Young on June 18, 2006 at the International Assessment and Retention Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. Shauna is involved in NASPA Region VI's Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Knowledge Community as the sub-chair for Southern California.
John presented Christian Students on Campus: Privileged or Oppressed? Stereotyped or Misunderstood? at NASPA's Multicultural Institute held December 8-10 in Las Vegas, NV. more...
John Hoffman and Marla Franco presented Assessment in Student Affairs at the Western Regional Careers in Student Affairs Day held at California State University, Long Beach on October 21, 2005. Click here to see the handout.
John Hoffman and Katie Lowitzki had their research article, "Predicting College Success with High School Grades and Test Scores: Limitations for Minority Students," published in the most recent issue of The Review of Higher Education more...
John along with his brother, Louis, and several colleagues, presented two papers in April at the International Convention of the Christian Association of Psychological Studies (CAPS), held in Dallas, TX: Cultural Diversity and the God Image (read the paper) and Modern and Postermodern Ways of Knowing (read the paper).
John Hoffman, along with his wife, Joy, and colleague Andre Coleman, presented "Surprise and Sense-Making: Using Assessment to Improve Student of Color Retention" in March at the 2005 NASPA Conference in Tampa, FL more...
Growth, The Journal of the Association of Christians in Student Development, will publish the results of recent research by John in which he developed a typology of student involvement at a Christian University more...
Getting Involved: A Typology of Student Cocurricular Participation at a Christian University
Abstract:
In this study, I made use of a developmental transcript that tracks student involvement in over 175 student services and cocurricular activities at a Lutheran university in the Southwest. I employed exploratory factor analysis to develop a typology of student involvement from 201 developmental transcripts. The results identified two involvement factors—collegiate involvement and leadership involvement—and one non-involvement factor. The non-involvement factor was unique in that the activities associated with it were uniquely religious in nature. I discuss implications for practice at the end of this article.
Journal Information :
As noted on its website, "The Association for Christians in Student Development (ACSD) comprises professionals who seek to bring their commitment to Jesus Christ together with their work in college student development. Through the exchange of ideas, encouragement of networking, regional and annual conferences, and application of scriptural principles to developmental theory, the Association seeks to enable its members to be more effective in ministering to students." Growth is the professional journal of ACSD.
Additional information regarding ACSD and Growth Journal is available at www.acsdhome.org.