Does Frequency of Visits to the Writing Center Increase Student Satisfaction? A Statistical Correlation Study - or Story

Abstract

This essay presents a correlation study of student satisfaction with Writing Center services based on the number of visits students made to the Center during two different semesters. It also tells a story of how we learned to stop fearing numbers and love the interpretation of them--of how we came to use quantitative research to gain some answers to a question we could not have addressed as efficiently using only qualitative methods.