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Sukhada Samudra; Cynney Walters; Destiny Williams-Dobosz; Aarati Shah; Peggy Brickman – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
The cognitive and performance benefits of group work in undergraduate courses depend on understanding how to structure groups to promote communication and comfort while also promoting diversity and reducing conflict. The current study utilized social network analysis combined with self-reported survey data from 555 students in 155 groups to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Team Training, Group Experience, Group Dynamics
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Esther Skelley Jordan; Linda S. Stewart – To Improve the Academy, 2024
This article reflects on the assumptions we make in the design of faculty and graduate student orientations and on the implementation of redesigned orientations that foreground participant narrative. When educational developers purposefully make space for participant stories at their orientations, it is a way not only to share power with graduate…
Descriptors: Design, Graduate School Faculty, Graduate Students, Teacher Orientation
Nicole Alison Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Narratives of isolation and marginalization are consistent elements of the experiences of Black people in higher education, regardless of positions and roles (Anthym & Tuitt, 2019; Chesler & Crowfoot, 1989; Stewart, 2018-2019). The purpose of this narrative study is to explore how participation in Black affinity groups influenced Black…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Predominantly White Institutions, Sense of Belonging, African Americans