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Bridget A. Walsh; Sarah N. Mitchell; Emmanuel Kyeremeh Addai; Matthew Aguirre; Keira M. Hambrick – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
While research demonstrates that family support is essential for doctoral students, research detailing institutional efforts to involve families is limited. We developed the GAIN Scholars program, consisting of two 3-week-long boot camps for incoming first-generation and historically marginalized doctoral students. Quantitative data were collected…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, First Generation College Students, Doctoral Students, Disadvantaged
Bloom, Quinn; Curran, Michaela; Brint, Steven – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Over the last three decades, interdisciplinary cluster hiring programs have become popular on research university campuses as an approach to fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. These programs have not yet been rigorously evaluated across multiple institutions and multiple thematic fields. The paper reports the results of a survey of 199…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Universities, Cluster Grouping, Administrator Attitudes
Willis, Ian; Jennings, Brian – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Middle-level administrators in African universities are often under-utilised in terms of their contribution to the administrative support for learning and teaching. They also have little access to professional development. This paper presents the findings of a study to develop a programme to enable these administrators to enhance their support for…
Descriptors: Middle Management, College Administration, Management Development, Administrator Effectiveness
Seidel, Gabriele; Kaiser, Birgit; Lander, Jonas; Dierks, Marie-Luise – Health Education Journal, 2017
Objective: To determine whether Hannover Medical School's Patient University, which was developed as the first university-based health education institution in Germany, offers a valuable means of conveying health-related knowledge, competencies and the ability to reflect on health information to its participants. Design: Participatory health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patients, Health Education, Medical Schools
Andrew P. Jaciw; Sze-Shun Lau; Jenna Zacamy; Li Lin – Empirical Education Inc., 2023
The Collaboration and Reflection to Enhance Atlanta Teacher Effectiveness (CREATE) is a three-year teacher residency program that seeks to recruit, support, and retain a diverse, highly effective, and culturally competent educator workforce that is committed to working in high-needs schools and to improving student outcomes. This evaluation…
Descriptors: Diversity, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Nudzor, Hope Pius; Ansah, Francis – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
Graduate tracer studies have come to represent one of the key approaches for enhancing study programme effectiveness in contemporary higher education. This has led to a surge in graduate tracer studies by Ghanaian higher education institutions. However, reflective practices on challenges and lessons from these studies are lacking. Through…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Alumni
Antonio Alba-Meraz; Aysegul Baltaci; Carolina De La Rosa Mateo; Gabriela Burk; Jose Lamas; Francisca Mendoza; Monica Cruz-Zorrilla; Oswaldo Cabrera-Vidal – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2021
The University of Minnesota Extension, in partnership with the Consulate of Mexico in Saint Paul, Minnesota, expanded the Ventanilla de Asesoría Financiera -Financial Education and Family Asset Protection Program to serve families in rural areas. The financial education services were expanded to 25 rural counties in Minnesota during 2017 and 2018.…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Extension Education, Hispanic American Students, Financial Education
Gaia, A. Celeste – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
Though many experts argue that semester or year abroad study is the optimal path, short-term programs meet the needs of students who would not otherwise study abroad and can be effective at increasing intercultural competency. The present study describes one type of short-term program--the embedded faculty-led model--and provides evidence that…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Intercultural Programs, Pretests Posttests, Participant Satisfaction
Zúñiga, Ximena; Nelson Laird, Thomas F.; Mitchell, Tania D. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
This study examines whether participation in a diversity initiative, Project MosaiK, helped prepare students to engage and actively address social justice issues in their residence halls. After controlling for background characteristics, findings suggest that the more students participated in Project MosaiK activities, the more likely they were to…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Democratic Values, Citizenship Education, Social Justice
Weiss, Michael J.; Mayer, Alexander K.; Cullinan, Dan; Ratledge, Alyssa; Sommo, Colleen; Diamond, John – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Community colleges play a vital role in higher education, enrolling more than one in every three postsecondary students. While their market share has grown over the past 50 years, students' success rates remain low. Consequently, community college stakeholders are searching with mounting urgency for strategies that increase rates of success. We…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Communities of Practice, Graduation Rate, Education Work Relationship
Douglass, April G.; Smith, Dennie L.; Smith, Lana J. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
In this article, we explored the effectiveness of peer mentoring of undergraduate education students enrolled in core curriculum, writing-intensive courses. The context for our study was the use of peer mentors in undergraduate education writing-intensive courses. Peer mentors who had previously taken the courses were selected and trained as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Core Curriculum, Writing Assignments
Topcu, Mustafa Sami; Mugaloglu, Ebru Zeynep; Guven, Devrim – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
The purpose of this study is to identify the foci and results of studies on socioscientific issues (SSI) conducted in Turkey. Additionally, the study aimed to compare the results of this study with ones conducted internationally. For this aim, a literary review of empirical studies related to SSI conducted in Turkey was carried out. Four criteria…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science and Society, Literature Reviews
Westling, David L.; Kelley, Kelly R.; Cain, Brittany; Prohn, Seb – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
A survey was administered to assess attitudes of students living on a college campus that offered an inclusive postsecondary education program for individuals with intellectual disability. Responses were received from 572 students. The survey assessed attitudes toward the postsecondary education program, the program's participants, inclusion, and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Attitudes, Inclusion, Mental Retardation
Wyse, Sara A.; Long, Tammy M.; Ebert-May, Diane – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are increasingly responsible for instruction in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Various professional development (PD) programs have been developed and implemented to prepare TAs for this role, but data about effectiveness are lacking and are derived almost…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Professional Development, Biology, Graduate Students
McGee, Jennifer; Colby, Susan – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
Understanding effective and appropriate techniques for assessing student learning has never been as critical and political as is it is today. Accurate assessment methodologies employed in public schools are vital to the interpretation of student achievement data through which school effectiveness is being measured. Although there is a need,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum, Methods Courses
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