Associate Professor & Senior Research Associate - National Center for Student Success

Department:
National Center for Student Success
Educational Psychology

Administration and Supervision - Higher Education

Office Number: 437 FH

Phone/Fax:
(713) 743-5032 , (713) 743-8650  (Fax)

Email: chorn@pioneer.coe.uh.edu

Home Page:
http://www.coe.uh.edu/mycoe/EPSY/faculty_docs/HORNcv9_09.pdf

Research Interests:

systemic barriers to college access for traditionally underrepresented students; K-12 high stakes testing; college admission policy; the effects of poverty on educational outcomes; quantitative methods

Recent Publications:

*Flores, S., & Horn, C. (In Press). College persistence among undocumented students at a selective public university: A quantitative case study analysis. The Journal of College Student Retention.

Horn, C., McCoy, Z., Brock, C., & Campbell, L. (2009). Remedial testing and placement in community colleges. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 33,1–16.

Horn, C., Plazas Snyder, B., Coverdale, J., Louie, A., & Roberts, L. W. (2009). Educational research questions and study design. Academic Psychiatry, 33(3), 261-267.

Marin, P., & Horn, C. L. (Eds.). (2008). Realizing Bakke’s legacy: Affirmative action, equal opportunity, and access to higher education. VA: Stylus.

Horn, C., Flores, S., & Orfield, G. (Eds.) (2006). Community colleges and Latino educational opportunity. New Directions for Community Colleges 133 (2).

Horn, C., & Marin, P. (2006). Reaping the benefits of Grutter: College admissions and racial/ethnic diversity. In P. Gandara, G. Orfield, & C. Horn (Eds.), Expanding opportunity in higher education: Leveraging promise, (pp. 167-192). New York: State University of New York Press.

Orfield, G., Marin, P., & Horn, C. (Eds.) (2005). Higher education and the color line: College access, racial equity, and social change. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Press Group.

Horn, C. (2005). Standardized assessments and the flow of students into the college admission pool. Educational Policy 19 (2), pp. 331-348.

Horn, C. (Winter 2003). High-stakes testing and students: Stopping or perpetuating a cycle of failure? Theory Into Practice, 42(1), pp. 30-41.

Horn, C., & Flores, S. (February, 2003). Percent plans in college admissions: A comparative analysis of three states’ experiences. Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

Education:

B.A. in Sociology and English, Rice University, 1994.
Ph.D. in Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, Boston College, 2001.