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Gibin Raju; Paul Feldkamp; Whitney Gaskins – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
Enrollment in high school physics across the United States of America is notably lower than in other scientific disciplines. Given that physics serves as a prerequisite for admission into many STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degree programs, the lack of completion of this course at the high school level can significantly…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Persistence, Summer Programs
Juebei Chen; Xiangyun Du; Aida Guerra; Filipe Miguel Faria Silva; Youmen Chaaban – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Recent literature has identified students' academic well-being as an indicator of their persistence in their current study and competence development. While prior literature has focused on measuring students' academic well-being from psychological and mental health perspectives, limited studies have explored the ways in which the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Well Being, College Freshmen, College Seniors
Cassandra A. Paul; David J. Webb – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We have previously described the reformed introductory physics course, collaborative learning through active sense-making in physics (CLASP), for bioscience students at a large public research one university (Original University) and presented evidence that the course was more successful and more equitable than the course it replaced by several…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Disadvantaged
Janet Spitzig; Blake J. Renner – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
This study aimed to examine the relationship between student engagement and student retention of adult learners at community colleges. The relationship between student retention and the five Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) student engagement benchmarks (active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Liao, Yin-Chan; Ringler, Marjorie – Cogent Education, 2023
This study was undertaken to address an issue of student retention and learning in undergraduate computer science (CS) courses. To improve students' CS learning experience, the goal of this case study was to support five CS faculty's integration of active learning into their teaching, using the Understanding by Design framework. We explored the CS…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Educational Change
Pamela Ann Dobbins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As nontraditional student numbers are rising, it is critical to the students' and to colleges' success to determine what works for the nontraditional student. By using a mixed methods research design to study Tinto's Integration Theory, the researcher collected and analyzed data to determine whether there are relationships between classrooms'…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Sense of Community, Nontraditional Students, Academic Persistence
Kornreich-Leshem, Hagit; Benabentos, Rocio; Hazari, Zahra; Potvin, Geoff; Kramer, Laird – Science Education, 2022
The power of knowledgeable peers (in this case undergraduate learning assistants [LAs]) to scaffold learning in ways that can positively influence both cognitive and affective outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), is explored in this study. In terms of the cognitive perspective, we use a metacognitive awareness (MA)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Metacognition, Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education
Shields, Samantha Michele – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Engineering education has a long and well-researched history; however, recent declines in the number of undergraduate students entering and matriculating through to graduation has commanded the engineering education community's attention. To help counter the declining number of students entering and persisting in engineering, an engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Cory C. Cowan; Mara Brady; Jaime Arvizu; Amber Reece; Beth Weinman; Matthew Zivot – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
Regional comprehensive universities with access-oriented missions provide critical pathways for increasing the number and diversity of STEM graduates. The BOND program at California State University, Fresno supports the transition to college for first-time, full-time freshmen in selected STEM majors. BOND incorporates a learning community, active…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement, College Freshmen
Miller, Samuel D.; Massey, Dixie D. – Reading Psychology, 2022
"If your horse is dead, dismount," is Dakota tribal wisdom that reminds us to do the most obvious thing. In this paper, we describe how middle school students in summer school finally challenged us to 'dismount' from our traditional remedial reading instruction. In our new approach, middle schoolers chose topics for study and shared what…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties, Remedial Reading, Remedial Programs
Convertino, Christina; Alvidrez, Mariana; Pickett, Josey; Camberos, Diana – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Gateway courses are high-enrollment, low completion introductory courses foundational to a major. Because these courses have a disproportionately negative impact on the retention and persistence of Latinx students to their desired STEM major, we refer to these understudied, high-stakes courses as gatekeeping courses. Framing our exploratory study…
Descriptors: Worksheets, College Attendance, Classroom Techniques, Introductory Courses
Dan Cullinan – Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, 2023
Following up on a previous impact and cost study of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) model, which used an individual-level randomized controlled trial, this study assesses the costs and cost-effectiveness of the program on longer-term college progress and college attainment. The version of DCMP included in this study diversified the…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Career Choice, Student Interests, Remedial Mathematics
Alexis A. Chontos; John R. Kenney – Journal of Instructional Research, 2024
This study identifies the best online teaching practices to benefit first-year visual arts students, notably to include instructor-created videos. Such instructor-created videos provide a firm foundation for these students to succeed in their first year of college. The introduction of Web 2.0, focusing on user-generated content, has shown…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Best Practices
Prashanth Ramesh Rao; Ashok Belle Upadhyaya; Meera Nanjundan – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2023
In Cell Biology, a sophomore/junior undergraduate-level high-enrollment core course, students areexpected to develop a broad and detailed understanding of the functioning of eukaryotic cells. Forexample, some of the more challenging biological concepts include machinery involved in thereplication and translational processes, protein…
Descriptors: Cytology, Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Dunkle, Kallina M.; Yantz, Jennifer L. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
Flipped instruction is not new and the literature is extensive with examples of flipped courses. However, there is a lack of studies with a structured, methodical approach to flipped design, implementation, and evaluation of its effectiveness. An upper division geology course was flipped to allow focus on higher-level concepts, especially…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Design, College Science