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Van Hoof, Thomas J.; Walsh, Stephen J.; Missal, Jacob; Burkey, Daniel D. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2019
The science of learning (learning science) is an emerging interdisciplinary field that concerns itself with how the brain learns and remembers important information. The authors describe an innovative extracurricular program that introduced first-year undergraduate students in engineering to learning science, specifically the biological steps in…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Extracurricular Activities, Engineering Education, College Freshmen
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Stover, Sheri; Seemiller, Corey – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
The world is a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment (Carvan, 2015) that calls for leaders who can effectively navigate the complexity of leadership today. Students of leadership studies must not only learn leadership information content, but also be able to effectively implement the content and process, requiring deep…
Descriptors: Leadership, Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Organizational Development
Dochen, Carol; Johnson, De – 1980
Over a period of three years an experimental program was conducted at Southwest Texas State University to help increase the number of successful completions of admission contract conditions by transfer students with low grade point averages. An increase in the number of students successfully meeting the required grade point average of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Behavior Patterns, Credit Courses, Educational Research