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Direct linkBass, Michelle B.; Halverson, Erica R. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
In this article, the authors unpack a first-year college seminar where students explored digital representations of self-afforded pedagogies of possibility for traditionally marginalized student populations, specifically students of colour and first-generation college goers. An artefact analysis model is used to trace the relationship between the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Minority Group Students, First Generation College Students
Download full textBlue, Jennifer; Taylor, Beverley; Yarrison-Rice, Jan – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
Enhancing critical thinking skills for undergraduate students is important across the curriculum and between disciplines. We report on a method of improving critical thinking skills, which was studied through an Ethics and Science First-Year Seminar course. We used full cycle assessment over a three-year period to assess students' development and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Ethics, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Langsam, Deborah M. – 1994
Students often arrive at universities ill-prepared for the reflective practice needed to derive maximum benefits from a Freshman Seminar. At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, portfolio projects are semester-long assignments in which the portfolio serves as a capstone activity to help freshmen more thoroughly analyze their first year…
Descriptors: Accountability, Assignments, Elective Courses, Evaluation Methods
Camarena, Phame; Saltarelli, Andrew; Lung, Janice – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2006
Assessment data from both an FYE-infused general education course (N = 153) and a first-year seminar (N = 392) were analyzed to identify students' perceptions about projects that required significant participation in out-of-class activities as an integral part of the course. The results from this analysis revealed that in addition to increasing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, First Year Seminars, Student Attitudes, Data Analysis
