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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Denson, Nida; Park, Julie J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Racial/cultural awareness workshops constitute a salient form of co-curricular diversity engagement in higher education. Although these workshops are generally quite short in duration (often no more than two hours), previous research suggests that workshop participation is associated with undergraduate civic growth. The current study uses…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racial Relations, Cultural Awareness, Workshops
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Loes, Chad N.; Salisbury, Mark H.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article reports on a study that explored whether diversity experiences influence students' attitudes toward literary activities during the first year of college. Interactional diversity and attending a diversity workshop had a positive net influence on the outcome measure. Exposure to curricular diversity, however, had only a chance effect on…
Descriptors: Literacy, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Outcome Measures
Zarske, Malinda Schaefer – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Interest in whether real-world problems or a service learning context increases students' academic performance and intent to find careers in engineering is gaining momentum. The belief that diverse student populations resonate with the idea that "engineers can contribute to improving society" is found throughout the literature,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Introductory Courses, Statistical Analysis, Likert Scales
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Oja, Sharon Nodie; Graham, Suzanne E.; Andrew, Michael D. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2011
The goal of this study was to investigate how moral development changes over time for teacher education master's students during their year-long internship. Data on the Defining Issues Test-2 was collected at three points in time during the full-year teaching internships (beginning, end of first semester, and end of second semester). These…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes