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Lucy Bunning; Yuzhe Feng – TESOL Journal, 2025
Multilingual students learning English face changes in developing intercultural communicative competence outside the classroom. This Classroom Exploration, informed by frameworks of intercultural communicative competence, willingness to communicate, and cultural adaptation, explores the use of reflection comics in a service-learning course for…
Descriptors: English Learners, Communication Skills, Intercultural Communication, Student Attitudes
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Jura, Matthew; Gerhardt, Ira – PRIMUS, 2022
In summer 2013, Manhattan College introduced an online summer "bridge to calculus" course for incoming first-year students in science, engineering, and mathematics education who marginally did not receive a calculus recommendation based on a mathematics placement test. In this paper, we describe the development of the bridge course and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Calculus
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Aisyah Saad Abdul Rahim – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Educational escape rooms are immersive puzzle-based games that rely on teamwork skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication. This paper describes the development of desert island themed escape rooms in a blended learning environment using physical and online puzzles that were hosted on Genially. The blended escape rooms were…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Puzzles, Teamwork, Problem Solving
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Cavner Williams, Lauren; Conley, Kristin; Pavletic, Heather; Weller, Kirk – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
The C4 Scholar Program (Cross Curricular Career Community) is an interdisciplinary, multi-semester learning community for first-year developmental students at a comprehensive midwestern state university. Faculty members from two units, Retention & Student Success and Arts and Sciences, created the program to address a persistent gap in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Developmental Studies Programs, Accountability, At Risk Students
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
Many high school seniors who plan to attend college do not enroll, and others enroll but do not return for a second year. Low-income students are more likely than their higher-income peers to fall off track after high school ends. Text-message-based advising is a popular strategy to get students timely information and support, including among…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Freshmen, Telecommunications, Synchronous Communication
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Öçal, Mehmet Fatih; Simsek, Mertkan; Kapucu, Serkan – PRIMUS, 2021
The use of smartphones is increasingly gaining popularity in education. Students and teachers can determine scientific concepts using smartphones equipped with sensors such as Global Positioning System (GPS -- a navigation system that provides location information) and orientation (a device to measure coordinates according to a reference frame).…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Measurement Techniques, Scientific Concepts
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Sommers, Jayne K.; Reile, Lucy; Henry, Grant; Thomas, Jennifer – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2020
Scholarship on students who enter college without a declared major indicates that this population of students faces unique challenges (Anderson, 1985; Beal & Noel, 1980; Lewallen, 1993), but also may be more likely to persist to graduation and earn higher grades than those who enter college with a declared major (Lewallen, 1995). Based on…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Majors (Students), Residential Programs, Living Learning Centers
Fogg, Neeta; Harrington, Paul; Khatiwada, Ishwar – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The federally financed GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program) was organized two decades ago with the purpose of increasing high school completion and college enrollment among low-income students. The College Crusade of Rhode Island's GEAR UP program was designed as a long-term effort to buttress student success…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Readiness, Program Effectiveness, State Programs
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Sprowles, Amy; Goldenberg, Katlin; Goley, P. Dawn; Ladwig, Steve; Shaughnessy, Frank J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
At Humboldt State University (HSU), location is everything. Students are as drawn to our spectacular natural setting as they are to the unique majors in the natural resource sciences that the university has to offer. However, the isolation that nurtures the pristine natural beauty of the area presents a difficult reality for students who are…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Communities of Practice, Rural Schools, State Universities
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Kamen, Emma; Leri, Alessandra – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2019
At our small liberal arts college, we recently introduced a field trip-based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. This course, entitled "The Urban Ecosystem," explores various aspects of science and technology using our city (New York) as a case study. Beyond its curricular content, the Urban Ecosystem course has…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Field Trips
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Field, Kelly – Education Next, 2019
When Arizona State University announced in 2015 that it would offer a freshman year's worth of credit-bearing "massive open online courses" (MOOCs) for a fraction of the cost of its regular online and in-person classes, the news was met with both excitement and alarm. Education reformers proclaimed the move groundbreaking, saying it…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Online Courses, Educational Change, Access to Education
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Goyer, Alysia; Lynch, Alison; Wand, Jeffrey – PRIMUS, 2021
With the goal of improving student success, the chancellor of the California State University (CSU) system issued an executive order that required all CSU campuses to eliminate remedial math courses as of Fall 2018 and place all first-year students into appropriate General Education (GE) mathematics/quantitative reasoning courses. The Mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, College Mathematics, College Freshmen
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Hermann, John R.; Tynes, Sheryl; Apfel, Wendy – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2020
Recognizing the changing demographics of students applying to college coupled with Trinity University's responsibility to help our students succeed, we have created a Summer Bridge program that focuses on first-generation, underrepresented students (FGUS). Trinity's Summer Bridge program has been a success--both in terms of student performance and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen
Digital Promise, 2020
In this report, Every Learner Everywhere & Lighthouse Institutions share first-year experiences of 2- and 4-year colleges piloting new versions of gateway courses incorporating adaptive learning in an effort to address achievement gaps for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color by improving teaching and learning…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students
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McDevitt, Daniel; Allen-Stuck, Kimberly – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2018
During the 21st century, more students have been enrolled in U.S. higher education than ever before. These individuals are entering postsecondary education from more diverse backgrounds and with a much broader range of overall goals, values, and skills than their peers before them. As first-year students begin to navigate higher education, they…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Student School Relationship, School Holding Power, Low Achievement
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