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Download full textAmy Sprowles; Jessica Smith; Patricia Siering; Steven Margell; Frank Shaughnessy; Alison O'Dowd; Kerri J. Malloy; Matthew P. Hurst; P. Dawn Goley; Lisa Morehead-Hillman; Borbolla Mazzag; Gillian Black; L. Chook Chook Hillman; Dale Oliver; Katlin R. Goldenberg; Angela Rich; Sonja Manor; Matthew D. Johnson; Eileen Cashman – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2024
Deficits in college degree attainment limit important perspectives and ways of knowing that inspire creativity and innovation. Disproportional outcomes for racially minoritized groups that are historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics exacerbate this problem and promote societal inequities, structural…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Indigenous Knowledge, STEM Education, Cultural Awareness
Direct linkLotta Bergman; Frida Hessel – Journal of Transformative Education, 2024
This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretive multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, World Views, Self Esteem
Espinoza-Parra, Oscar; Collins, Christopher S. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2020
This study examined student learning via the composite measure of intellectual abilities among 1,210 Latina/o undergraduates at 4-year institutions. Longitudinal pre and post surveys were used to examine the impact of interrelated variables on Latina/o' senior year cognitive gains. This study applied Becker's (1993) human capital theory and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, College Environment, College Freshmen
Stoller, Aaron – Journal of General Education, 2017
Most first-year seminars exist to ensure that incoming students achieve what is commonly described as "academic success." While definitions of this term vary widely, it most often means socializing students into an academic culture so that they will remain at the institution, achieve a strong GPA, and graduate on time. Most first-year…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Inquiry, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars
Bowman, Nicholas A. – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Recent legal challenges to race-conscious college admissions processes have called into question what constitutes a sufficient level of diversity on college campuses. Previous research on the educational benefits of diversity has examined the linear relationship between diversity interactions and student outcomes, but multiple theoretical…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, College Freshmen, College Admission, Longitudinal Studies
Sockett, Hugh – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2013
This chapter argues that schooling neglects virtue through the dominant quest for right answers. This is not only intellectually disreputable in presuming the correctness of what is taught, but it undermines the development of necessary intellectual virtues, such as open-mindedness, impartiality, and accuracy in the school curriculum, and it fails…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Values, Intellectual Development, Moral Development
Bergeron, Dyonne Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to advance understanding of perceived intellectual and social attainment gains of first-generation, first-year college students participating in First Generation Access Programs at the University of South Florida (USF), a large, public research university in Florida. Understanding the self-reported intellectual and…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Access to Education
Harrison, Brenda LaJoyce – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study explored the issues of student-faculty interaction and faculty caring as experienced by Black students attending a Predominantly White Institution in a Mid-western urban city. Specifically, the study reviewed the questions related to student-faculty engagement as posed on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). This study used…
Descriptors: African American Students, Educational Experience, College Students, College Faculty
Giaquinto, Richard A. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2010
Literature on retention for first-year students appears to focus on the emotional, interpersonal, and financial problems these students face when beginning their post-secondary education. The article accepts the importance of these issues and their effect on retention. However, the article suggests that there are other issues that should be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Teaching Methods, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence
Wong, Gabrielle K. W. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2011
This paper describes classroom activities to help students understand the publication cycle and the characteristics of major publication channels (textbooks, books, encyclopedias, and periodicals) for first-year physics students. When designing these activities, the author considered the intellectual development characteristics and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Bowen, Deborah C. – Journal of Education & Christian Belief, 2008
Wolterstorff's argument for art as a form of action that enables us to anticipate shalom and Ricoeur's concept of the narrative intelligence developed in the reader of stories are tested out in a freshman non-specialist English class where the interpretation of literature, covered by the power of prayer, fosters both intellectual and moral…
Descriptors: Ethics, College Freshmen, Moral Values, Intellectual Development
Bauer, Jack J.; McAdams, Dan P. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
We examine (a) the normative course of eudaimonic well-being in emerging adulthood and (b) whether people's narratives of major life goals might prospectively predict eudaimonic growth 3 years later. We define eudaimonic growth as longitudinal increases in eudaimonic well-being, which we define as the combination of psychosocial maturity and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Maturity (Individuals), Well Being, Self Concept
Vance, Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This comparative case study describes and evaluates programs designed to assist students with the first year transition into postsecondary education. Rather than focusing on quantitative measures of student completion, retention, or graduation, this case study uses qualitative methods to examine the ways faculty incorporate principles of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Experience, Intellectual Development, Educational Principles
Fowler, Jane; Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2008
Common Time (CT) was a structured programme designed to enhance the social and academic engagement of a growingly diverse student body on a new campus that draws its population from a low-socioeconomic area. As a voluntary and non-remedial programme, it incorporated a range of formal and informal activities and processes to engage students. CT…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Academic Achievement, Intellectual Development, Partnerships in Education
Barton, Andrew; Donahue, Christiane – Journal of General Education, 2009
First-year seminars have become common at liberal arts and other colleges across the United States. An accumulating body of research appears to demonstrate that this curricular element is associated with increased retention of students and is positively correlated with graduation rates, student adjustment and involvement, student satisfaction,…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Graduation Rate, Student Adjustment, Program Effectiveness
