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Sarah LeMire; Zhihong Xu; Doug Hahn – College & Research Libraries, 2025
As higher education continues to focus its attention on first-generation college students, academic libraries are increasingly interested in designing outreach and instruction programs to support these students, especially during their first year of college. This study informs these efforts by implementing a standardized test to assess the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Information Literacy
Peters, Jan W.; Campbell-Montalvo, Rebecca A.; Leibnitz, Gretalyn M.; Metcalf, Heather; Sims, Ershela L.; Lucy-Putwen, Andrea; Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Segarra, Verónica A. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2021
Professional societies (ProSs) are instrumental in shaping science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) cultural norms. Existing legacy structures designed to serve majority groups and constructed in service of dominant norms and values present a clear obstacle to attracting, retaining, and serving minoritized STEM professionals, such…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Sex Fairness, STEM Education, Professional Associations
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Raven, Neil – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
With much emphasis now placed upon determining the effectiveness of widening participation (WP) interventions, there is value in identifying evaluation methods best able to provide insights into the impact of this work. One method that has received little attention in the field of WP and yet has considerable potential in this respect is associated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Intervention, Evaluation Methods
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Germain, Carol Anne – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
After undertaking the time and energy consuming task of reference assessment, the library might discover that it needs to tweak delivery of service, weed and update the collection, upgrade workstations, or advance marketing strategies to get patrons to use reference materials and services. Like any other product or service, reference departments…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Evaluation Methods, Outreach Programs, Marketing
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Landward, Stayner; Hepworth, Dean – College and University, 1984
An academic enrichment program was designed for a large state university and an experiment conducted to test its effectiveness in enhancing high-risk students' academic performance. Students in the enrichment program significantly outperformed control group students but only within the program's scope. The need for continuing support efforts is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Students, Developmental Studies Programs
Richardson, Richard C., Jr.; And Others – 1992
This guide provides information for policy leaders who need to develop or revise action plans aimed at improving learning environments for an increasingly diverse student clientele. The self-assessment is organized into three sections. The first section introduces the self-assessment, defines key terms, discusses the conceptual framework that…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Students, Cultural Differences, Data Collection