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Connecting Belongingness with Institutional Practices and Academic Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Approach
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Xi Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Higher education institutions are facing a major challenge in retaining 1st-year college students and engaging them in meaningful activities and programs to promote their sense of belonging (Strayhorn, 2012; Astin, 1993). Though a few belonging intervention practices have been studied (Perrell, 2018; Peck, 2011), there is a lack of understanding…
Descriptors: Sense of Belonging, Outcomes of Education, Educational Practices, Higher Education
The Effect of Gender and STEM/Non-STEM Disciplines on Remote Learning: A National Study of Undergraduates in Qatar
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Newsome, Mary L.; Pina, Anthony A.; Mollazehi, Mohammad; Al-Ali, Khalid; Al-Shaboul, Yousef – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2022
The sudden and prolonged disruption to learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of traditional higher education and revealed the need for a rapid transformation. Lessons from the pandemic have made it clear that the future of higher education will rely heavily on e-learning and the agility of institutions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, STEM Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Reducing Inequality in Higher Education: The Link between Faculty Empowerment and Climate and Retention
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Taylor, Lori L.; Beck, Molly I.; Lahey, Joanna N.; Froyd, Jeffrey E. – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
Since 2001 the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program has distributed over $130 million in grants to improve work climate, enhance professional success, and increase recruitment and retention of female faculty in STEM fields. The process by which each institution designs and implements these interventions is seldom studied, however. Using…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Empowerment, Organizational Climate, Regression (Statistics)
Is the Flipped Classroom Model for All? Correspondence Analysis from Trainee Instructional Media Designers
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Pellas, Nikolaos – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
The educational potentials and challenges of "flipping" a classroom are today well-documented. However, taking into account the contradictory results, literature on the benefits in using the flipped model as a socially inclusive technology-supported instructional design model is still in its infancy. This study seeks to investigate the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
Mentoring New Faculty at a Christian University in the Northeast: Developing a Framework for Programming
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Cook, Donna M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Mentoring has been used in various fields as a professional development and acculturation tool (Kram, 1991) and is used extensively in higher education (Cunningham, 1999). However, despite numerous studies based on faculty mentoring, those conducted at Christian institutions of higher education have been limited. The study was framed by several…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Mentors, Institutional Mission, Focus Groups
A Gendered Perspective on the Predictors of Student Involvement in Collegiate Clubs and Organizations
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Case, Kimberly Fay – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The theory of student involvement (Astin, 1984) acknowledges that as students devote sufficient time and energy to educationally purposeful activities, they can expect to make desirable gains throughout the college years. Participation in campus clubs and organizations is one form of involvement found to be associated with a host of learning and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Design, Gender Differences, College Athletics