摘要：The purpose of this study is to examine the causal model involving college students’ family background, freshman year characteristics, campus experiences, and learning outcomes. The subjects comprised 3,050 students from public universities and 5,723 students from private universities. Data source were based on responses to the 2003 university freshmen and 2005 university junior student questionnaires obtained from the Taiwan Integrated Postsecondary Education Database (TIPED). The results of the study indicated that the research model possessed a good fit and all the direct influential effects in the model reached a level of significance.
关键词：campus experiences;college students;freshman year characteristics;learning outcomes
