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A Systematic Approach to Educating the Emerging Adult Learner in Undergraduate Management Courses
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Dachner, Alison M.; Polin, Beth – Journal of Management Education, 2016
Management education research has provided educators with new instructional tools to improve course design and update the methods used in the classroom. In an effort to provide the typical undergraduate management student with the best possible learning experience and outcomes, it is important to recognize how and why these new activities benefit…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Adult Students, Undergraduate Students, Adult Education
Students' Epistemologies and Academic Experiences: Implications for Pedagogy.
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – Review of Higher Education, 1992
Yearly interviews investigated 101 college students' perceptions of their experiences throughout the 4 years of college as they related to 3 different epistemologies ranging from unquestioned acceptance of knowledge to self-authored knowledge and to gender differences within these epistemologies. Results suggest teaching strategies and evaluation…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Educational Strategies, Epistemology
Self-Evaluation: Settings and Uses.
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Waluconis, Carl J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1993
Faculty ask undergraduate students to write self-evaluations in varied settings and contexts, from reflections on a brief learning experience to descriptions of learning over a course, courses, or an entire college experience. Feedback and degree of structure of the writing assignment are important considerations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Evaluation Methods
Influences Affecting the Development of Students' Critical Thinking Skills.
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Terenzini, Patrick T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1995
A study with 210 college freshmen investigated the effect of 3 aspects of the college experience (curricular exposure, formal classroom and instructional experiences, and out-of-class experiences). Results suggest that both classroom/instructional and out-of-class experiences make positive, statistically significant, unique contributions to gains…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, College Curriculum, College Instruction
Preparing Incoming Students for the University Educational Process: From the Students' Perspective and Retrospective.
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Hanley, Gerard L.; Olson, Sharon L. – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1996
The effectiveness of a California State University, Long Beach, program to prepare incoming students for university-level work and educational processes was assessed in 2 surveys of new students (n=1,100, n=1,613) and 1 of 80 who had taken the course previously. Key elements in program success were identified: course content; teaching techniques;…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, College Preparation
Matching Methods to Objectives and Assessing Results: A Simulation as the Capstone Experience in a Freshman Seminar about International Negotiations.
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Fratantuono, Michael J.; Senecal, Kristin S. – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1996
Discussion of a Dickinson College (Pennsylvania) first-year seminar identifies its teaching objectives, describes class activities, and examines transcripts from the simulation of a negotiation, the course's capstone experience. Evidence suggests the students mastered information and concepts, were thinking critically about issues, had developed a…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Conflict Resolution