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Paul G. LeMahieu, Editor; Paul Cobb, Editor – Harvard Education Press, 2025
In "Measuring to Improve," Paul G. LeMahieu, Paul Cobb, and contributors introduce educational practitioners, administrators, and policymakers to the foundational elements of practical measurement to support continuous improvement efforts in K-12 schools. They begin by defining practical measurement as data collection and analysis that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement, Measurement, Best Practices
Holmes, Ashley J. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023
This book offers an innovative framework and set of pedagogical pathways for deepening college student learning through critical engagement with place. Though the "what" and "how" of teaching and learning rightly take center stage in research of best practices, this book argues that the "where" of education deserves…
Descriptors: College Students, Place Based Education, Student Diversity, College Faculty
Patricia Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This multi-site, embedded case study drew on qualitative data to uncover how Black Student Unions (BSUs) within a large California university system bridged or buffered Black student experiences. The central purpose of this case study was to gain an understanding of the Black students' experiences within the BSU, framing the overarching research…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Student Unions, Student Experience
Rodrigues, Susana, Ed.; Mourato, Joaquim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) are providers of knowledge and competencies. HEIs are very important to the development of society and the regions they impact geographically. The current uncertainty and challenges require new ways of educating. They require the use of new pedagogical tools that prepare students to deal with real and future…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Development, Geographic Regions, School Community Relationship
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
College accreditation began as a voluntary means to advise American institutions of higher education on "best practices" and signal to prospective students and their parents that the accredited school offered a quality education. This document critiques the current accreditation system in higher education, which has shifted from a…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality, Educational Change, Best Practices
Conrad, Clifton; Lundberg, Todd – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
Most American colleges and universities assimilate students into highly competitive undergraduate experiences. By placing achievement for personal and material gain as the bedrock of a college education, these institutions fail to educate students to become collaborative learners: people who are committed and prepared to join with others in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
Campbell, Corbin M. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
"Great College Teaching" highlights where and how exemplary teaching is practiced in US higher education and charts a course for cultivating teaching improvement throughout all types of institutions. As Corbin M. Campbell reveals in this incisive work, although teaching quality is rarely reflected in college rankings such as those…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Competencies
Coffey, Heather; Arnold, Lucy – Myers Education Press, 2022
"Transformative Critical Service-Learning" offers hands-on tools for implementing, reflecting on, and assessing critical service-learning in classrooms and community spaces. Answering a need from practitioners for a practical tool for making sense of critical service-learning, the authors introduce the Critical Service-Learning…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Students, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education
Wolff-Eisenberg, Christine; Dahl, Sonja – Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, 2022
Since 2015, The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice has documented the significant challenges basic needs insecurity poses to students enrolled in higher education. Like many systemic issues, these insecurities existed long before the pandemic but have only been exacerbated by it. The Hope Center's latest national data on student basic…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Student Needs, College Students, Security (Psychology)
Nicole L. Weber; Kristen Gay – Online Learning Consortium, 2024
As the higher education landscape undergoes rapid transformation, educators continue to seek best practices for creating quality digital, blended, and online learning experiences. However, disparate definitions of quality and differing instructor and student preferences complicate this work. This report addresses the pressing need to bridge the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Student Attitudes, In Person Learning
Daugherty, Lindsay; Karam, Rita; Basco, Daniel; Kaufman, Julia H. – Grantee Submission, 2019
In education, practitioners are increasingly looking for strategies to bring data and evidence into decisionmaking and to roll out programs in intentional ways that allow for ongoing improvement. This toolkit acts as a guide to improvement strategies for teams of practitioners at colleges, providing them with the knowledge and tools they need to…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Improvement
Black, Ruth Claire – IGI Global, 2019
Online degree programs have long faced the issue of retention and engagement from their students. Proper support and guidance for students can encourage continuation in these programs, and can help lead to student success. "Coaching for Student Retention and Success at the Postsecondary Level: Emerging Research and Opportunities" is a…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), School Holding Power, Postsecondary Education, Academic Achievement
Complete College America, 2021
This report is focused on both introducing corequisite support to institutional leaders looking for new approaches to addressing remediation and offering new insights that can deepen practice for those who are already at work implementing the model. Following previous reports on the corequisite model, "No Room for Doubt" outlines a…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Becker, Jenifer – Public Services Quarterly, 2017
The "Best of the Literature" column is intended to keep librarians, administrators, and staff up to date with the most recent, relevant, and useful literature of the field. In the last few years, students of color across the nation have spoken out about their experiences of racism and racial microaggressions on their campuses. They have…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, African American Students, Library Services, Library Research
Zilvinskis, John, Ed.; Kinzie, Jillian, Ed.; Daday, Jerry, Ed.; O'Donnell, Ken, Ed.; Zande, Carleen Vande, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2022
Research shows that enriching learning experiences such as learning communities, service-learning, undergraduate research, internships, and senior culminating experiences -- collectively known as High-Impact Practices (HIPs) -- are positively associated with student engagement; deep, and integrated learning; and personal and educational gains for…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Equal Education, Fidelity