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Bayles, Taryn; Morrell, Claudia – Chemical Engineering Education, 2018
To better understand the components that create an equitable learning environment, we have analyzed a number of highly successful programs that we developed and conducted targeting K-12 students, their teachers, and university students. We identified four criteria experienced by the student that are essential for his or her recruitment,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, College Programs
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Woodhead, Erin L.; Brown, Preston; Snycerski, Susan; Laraway, Sean; Bathurst, Nicholas; Feist, Greg; Rogers, Ronald F. – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
In an examination of a brief and innovative partnership, we compared outcomes for two disciplines, Elementary Statistics and General Psychology, across three formats: online as part of the San José State University-Udacity partnership (termed "SJSU Plus"), face-to-face (FTF), and online in a redesigned course offering. We also examine…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Partnerships in Education
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Merkel, John Conrad; Brania, Abdelkrim – Innovative Higher Education, 2015
This five-year study of the peer-led team learning (PLTL) paradigm examined its implementation in a Calculus I course at an all-male HBCU institution. For this study we set up a strong control group and measured the effect of PLTL in the teaching and learning of Calculus I through two points of measure: retention and success rates and learning…
Descriptors: Calculus, Peer Teaching, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning
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Zhen, Li – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
In this article, the author investigates college students' volunteer teaching in Western China. A series of investigations were conducted in Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. The results showed that teaching by volunteer college students played a positive role in the development of local education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Investigations, Student Teaching
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Heydinger, Richard B. – 1975
This paper presents an overview of the trends in the assessment of student performance that are emerging from learner-centered reforms. A conceptual typology of assessment includes the purposes of assessment, characteristics of assessment criteria, assessment procedures, and uses of assessment products. Learner centered reforms are discussed in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
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Dodson, Thomas A. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1980
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a creative-comprehensive approach (students creating original music by assuming the roles of composer, performer and analytic listener) when compared with a performance approach (students engaged in the performance and aural analysis of preselected folk and traditional music).…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Concept Teaching
Davis, Junius A.; And Others – 1975
The Higher Education Amendment of 1968 provided for support services on college and university campuses to facilitate the progress of disadvantaged young people (from families within the national poverty criteria or the physically handicapped). Three years later an evaluation of the special service programs (typically including specially staffed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students, Disadvantaged