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Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Makes the First year Seminar High Impact

Download or read book What Makes the First year Seminar High Impact written by Tracy L. Skipper and published by Research Reports on College Tr. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The responsibility for college success has historically rested with the student, but since the 1980s, educators have taken increasing ownership of this, designing structures that increase the likelihood of learning, success, and retention. These efforts have included a variety of initiatives--first year seminars, learning communities, writing-intensive courses, common intellectual experiences, service-learning, undergraduate research, and senior capstones among others--that have come to be known as high-impact practices. Although first year seminars have been widely accepted as a high impact educational practice leading to improved academic performance, increased retention and acquisition of critical 21st Century outcomes, first-year seminars tend to be loosely defined in the literature. National explorations of course structure and administration demonstrate the diversity of the curricular initiatives across various campuses. In order to determine the attributes that all of these varied courses share in common that contribute to their effectiveness, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina invited contributions for a book exploring effective educational practices within the first-year seminar. This collection of case studies represents a wide variety of institutional and seminar types. The authors describe the structure, pedagogy, and assessment strategies that lead to high quality seminars and they offer abundant models for ensuring the delivery of a high-quality educational experience to all entering students. The table of contents includes the following: (1) Structural Supports for Effective Educational Practices in the First-Year Seminar (Tracy L. Skipper); (2) The American University of Rome (Jenny Petrucci); (3) Cabrini University (Richard Gebauer, Michelle Filling-Brown, and Amy Perischetti); (4) Clark University (Jessica Bane Robert); (5) Coastal Carolina University (Michele C. Everett); (6) Durham Technical Community College (Kerry F. Cantwell and Gabby McCutchen); (7) Florida South Western State College (Eileen DeLuca, Kathy Clark, Myra Walters, and Martin Tawil); (8) Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis (Heather Bowman, Amy Powell, and Cathy Buyarski); (9) Ithaca College (Elizabeth Bleicher); (10) LaGuardia Community College, CUNY (Tameka Battle, Linda Chandler, Bret Eynon, Andrea Francis, Preethi Radhakrishnan, and Ellen Quish); (11) Loyola University Maryland (Mary Ellen Wade); (12) Malone University (Marcia K. Everett, Jay R. Case, and Jacci Welling); (13) Montana State University (Margaret Konkel and Deborah Blanchard); (14) Northern Arizona University (Rebecca Campbell and Kaitlin Hublitz); (15) Southern Methodist University (Caitlin Anderson, Takeshi Fujii, and Donna Gober); (16) Southwestern Michigan College (Christi Young, Jeffrey Dennis, and Donald Ludman); (17) St. Cloud State University (Christine Metzo); (18) Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi (Rita A. Sperry, Andrew M. Garcia, Chelsie Hawkinson, and Michelle Major); (19) The University of Arizona (Marla Franco, Jessica Hill, and Tina Wesanen-Neil); (20) University of Kansas (Alison Olcott Marshall and Sarah Crawford-Parker); (21) University of Maryland Baltimore County (Lisa Carter Beall); (22) University of New Hampshire (Neil Niman, Tamara Rury, and Sean Stewart); (23) University of North Carolina Wilmington (Zachary W. Underwood); (24) University of Northern Iowa (Deirdre Heistad, April Chatham-Carpenter, Kristin Moser, and Kristin Woods); (25) University of Texas at Austin (Ashley N. Stone and Tracie Lowe); (26) University of Texas at San Antonio (Kathleen Fugate Laborde and Tammy Jordan Wyatt); (27) University of Wisconsin-Madison (Susan Brantly and Sorabh Singhal); (28) Virginia Commonwealth University (Melissa C. Johnson and Bety Kreydatus); and (29) Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be High Impact? (Tracy L. Skipper). (Individual chapters contain references.).

Book American Doctoral Dissertations

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship of a Freshman Year Experience for Resident and Commuter Students to the Social and Academic Integration Commitment Academic Success and Persistence of First Year College Students

Download or read book The Relationship of a Freshman Year Experience for Resident and Commuter Students to the Social and Academic Integration Commitment Academic Success and Persistence of First Year College Students written by Janice Sutera Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impact of Variations in the Psychosocial Orientation of First year College Students on Academic and Social Integration

Download or read book The Impact of Variations in the Psychosocial Orientation of First year College Students on Academic and Social Integration written by Larry Ty Abernathy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Generation Women College Students Starving to Matter

Download or read book First Generation Women College Students Starving to Matter written by Argyro Aloupis Armstrong and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impact of Food Insecurity on First-Generation Female Higher Education Students seeks to emphasize the importance of mattering, belonging and effective student resources in the lives of first-generation women college students. They face unique obstacles that if not adequately addressed could impact their retention and persistence. Success in higher education relies on access to resources, connection, and a sense of meaning and purpose. Based on a yearlong qualitative study the book highlights the ways in which access to student resources, mattering and marginalization frame larger issues including mental health and food and housing insecurities. Interviewing both students and staff provides a window into Riverside's campus climate and solidifies the importance of positive interactions. First-generation women striving to matter explain a need for faculty that understand their strengths, staff that encourage them to ask for assistance, and peers that invite them to join the conversation.

Book Student Success in College

Download or read book Student Success in College written by George D. Kuh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.

Book Social Integration and First Year Students Intentions to Return to Their Current University

Download or read book Social Integration and First Year Students Intentions to Return to Their Current University written by Gabriella Beckles and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the impact of social integration on freshmen intent to return to their current institution. With reference to Weber's work on bureaucracy and Baumeister's work on social inclusion, the relevance of the Tinto model of retention is investigated within the context of an HBCU. Findings support the idea that students at the HBCU engage in more formal than informal social interaction, and to some degree revealed that level of social interaction was related to level of satisfaction with university experience. However, results indicated that level of satisfaction was related to only one of the two dependent measures. Nevertheless, some support for the usefulness of the Tinto model was found, yet the study also revealed that there are factors peculiar to the African American student community that need to be identified and researched in further depth if we are to have a comprehensive model, with predictive value that can help researchers, educators and administrators understand the nuances of the African American student and why they stay or drop out of university. -- Abstract.

Book Journal of the Freshman Year Experience

Download or read book Journal of the Freshman Year Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book College Student Development

Download or read book College Student Development written by Alison R. Dronen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Impact of a First year Experience Program on the Retention of Underrepresented Students at a Predominately White Institution

Download or read book The Impact of a First year Experience Program on the Retention of Underrepresented Students at a Predominately White Institution written by Karen DeVose and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a first-year experience program on the retention of underrepresented minority students at an urban private predominately White institution. The study addressed the following research question: How do students articulate the value of their first-year experience program in helping them persist from freshman to sophomore year? The researcher conducted an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) through three semi-structured interviews with four self-identified underrepresented minority undergraduate students to examine their perceptions of how the program influenced their retention from freshman to sophomore year. In the final analysis, each interviewee felt that the first-year experience program could contribute to their ability to be retained until their sophomore year. The study also concluded that peer mentoring has a positive effect on social integration, retention, and student satisfaction with the university for first-year unrepresented minority students. Therefore, this study recommends that the Student Success Program change its mentorship model from a cascade to a peer mentorship model to improve retention and social integration for underrepresented minority students in their first year.

Book Resources in Education

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: