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Raymond Brown; Z. W. Taylor – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2025
At many institutions of higher education, first-year seminars are meant to help students transition to college life and to provide them with resources and skills to develop socially and academically, supporting persistence (Jamelske, 2009; Janz, 2004). Since their inception, researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of these seminars and their…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Students, Program Effectiveness, Student Adjustment
Jennifer Browne; Masha Krsmanovic – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2025
Scholarship on first-year seminar (FYS) courses is rapidly growing and diversifying. However, the available knowledge, for the most part, remains fragmented and limited to only one institutional setting, seminar type, or student group. Accordingly, this meta-synthesis was designed to examine 2 decades of research on FYS courses to determine the…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Program Effectiveness, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
Holly C. White; Katharine J. Ruskin; Alison Jolley; Nathan Flint; Debra M. Allen; Karen N. Pelletreau; Brian J. Olsen; Joan E. Ferrini-Mundy; John C. Volin – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Undergraduate research experiences offer a range of positive academic and affective student outcomes. However, these benefits often do not reach all students, as research experiences are often selective, favor high-achieving students, focus on STEM fields, and typically target students in their third or fourth year of undergraduate studies. To…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Student Research, Transitional Programs
Madelynn D. Shell; Christa J. Moore – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2025
First-year seminar courses lay the foundation for student success in college, and it is important they engage students via social, cognitive, and teaching presence which are domains of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework (Garrison et al., 2010). Previous evidence suggests that strategies such as a flipped classroom, co-teaching, and peer…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Online Courses, Flipped Classroom, Team Teaching
Feras Ali Al-Habies; Alean Al-Krenawi; Somaya Abdel-Hameed Al-Ja’afreh; Wafa Ali Mahmoud Alwani; Omar Ismail Hamzeh Alorani; Diya Ahmad Al-Jaloudi; Omar Abdallah Khawaldeh – Journal of International Students, 2025
In this study, we examined the effectiveness of an educational training program in reducing psychological, cultural, and social alienation among international students. A total of 73 undergraduate students from diverse nationalities participated in the study. The training program comprised six seminars delivered over three weeks, with two lectures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment
Kevin Wenger; Jillian Kinzie – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2025
First-year seminars (FYS) are well-tested and trusted programs to facilitate students' transition to college. This study adds to the body of evidence about the value of seminars through analysis of a large multi-institution dataset and documentation of the positive association between participation in a first-year seminar and student engagement in…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen, Program Effectiveness