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Arrington, T. Logan; Darabi, Aubteen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
This exploratory study investigated what faculty and current students in Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) programs perceive as indicators of an exemplary program. We surveyed a sample of the faculty and students and asked them to identify the most important indicators of an exemplary program and rank their own programs according to those…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
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Permzadian, Vahe; Credé, Marcus – Review of Educational Research, 2016
We review the effectiveness of first-year seminars based on the widely used criteria of first-year grades and the 1-year retention rate. Meta-analytic results indicate that first-year seminars have a small average effect on both first-year grades (k = 89, N = 52,406, d = 0.02) and the 1-year retention rate (k = 195, N = 169,666, d = 0.11). We…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Program Effectiveness, Grades (Scholastic)