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Woods, David M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
Schools have implemented the high-impact practice of first-year experience (FYE) courses to assist students with the transition to college. These courses help connect new students to the school with the goal of improving retention. While students in computing majors face the same challenges as other new college students, they also face some…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Information Science Education, Information Technology, Career Choice
Alexis A. Chontos; John R. Kenney – Journal of Instructional Research, 2024
This study identifies the best online teaching practices to benefit first-year visual arts students, notably to include instructor-created videos. Such instructor-created videos provide a firm foundation for these students to succeed in their first year of college. The introduction of Web 2.0, focusing on user-generated content, has shown…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Best Practices
Cámara-Zapata, José M.; Morales, Domingo – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
The dropout rate of university engineering studies is correlated with the absence of retention of freshman in the basic subjects. The aim of this work is to determine the effect of cooperative learning and the characteristics of students on learning, persistence, and academic performance. We have performed a study of learning, persistence and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Student Characteristics, Physics, College Faculty
Leary, Miriam; Morewood, Aimee; Bryner, Randy – Advances in Physiology Education, 2020
Using a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning lens, this study systematically examined if a targeted intervention in at-risk students within a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-based physiology program would elicit positive student perceptions and higher retention rates into the second year. Those students who were considered…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Portugal, Lisa Marie – Journal of Instructional Research, 2018
This paper summarizes a veteran instructor's experience during a short, yet intensive mentorship within a Community of Practice (CoP) framework. As a member in a Participatory Action Research mentoring/coaching project, the educator gained new insights and knowledge about how to better serve first-year, entry-level, College 100 learners. Key…
Descriptors: Mentors, Metacognition, Student Attrition, Academic Persistence
Busom, Isabel; Lopez-Mayan, Cristina; Panadés, Judith – Journal of Economic Education, 2017
Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. Would these differences fade away if people were exposed to some economic instruction? In this article, the authors identify college students' preconceptions about economic issues at the beginning of the semester, verify their persistence…
Descriptors: Economics Education, College Freshmen, College Students, Student Attitudes
Gregorius, R. Ma. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
Student performance in a flipped classroom with an animation-based content knowledge development system for the bottom third of the incoming first year college students was compared to that in a traditional lecture-based teaching method. 52% of these students withdrew from the traditionally taught General Chemistry course, compared to 22% in a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Animation
Pun, Jack K. H., Ed.; Curle, Samantha, Ed.; Yuksel, Dogan, Ed. – English Language Education, 2022
This volume discusses how the use of technology creates opportunities for effective teaching practice and illustrates ways to apply innovative and stimulating ways to engage and interact with students on-line. This research-led book brings together teaching practice and case studies and provides a comprehensive understanding of how technology can…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction
Wakefield, Jenny S.; Knezek, Gerald A.; Gutiérrez de Piñeres, Sheila Amin – International Journal on E-Learning, 2016
University efforts in the first year of college promote freshman student engagement in learning with the objective of improving retention and persistence, and are likely to ultimately lead to college success with timely graduation. This paper reports on an exploratory study of a first-year seminar designed to include three types of instruction:…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Group Discussion
Hegeman, Jennifer S. – Online Learning, 2015
Low retention rates in online freshman-level mathematics courses are a concern, especially at postsecondary institutions that serve academically unprepared students. The purpose of this study was to determine if student performance in an online College Algebra course that relies heavily on text-based multimedia tools can be improved by replacing…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, College Freshmen
Layton, Delia; McKenna, Sioux – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
The tutorial system is considered to be a useful pedagogical intervention to improve student retention, particularly in the context of a first-year student's experience of entering university. For these novice students to achieve academic success, it is important that they are given access to the subject-specific knowledge and practices in their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Foreign Countries
Skipper, Tracy L., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2017
The responsibility for college success has historically rested with the student, but since the 1980s, educators have taken increasing ownership of this, designing structures that increase the likelihood of learning, success, and retention. These efforts have included a variety of initiatives--first year seminars, learning communities,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Academic Achievement, First Year Seminars, Undergraduate Students
Wyatt, Jeannette B.; Bloemker, Geraldine A. – Higher Education Studies, 2013
First year college students are challenged both socially and academically in their transition to college life. The literature suggests that social and emotional competence skills can help with this transition. This article describes the course content for a University freshman seminar that teaches skills in social and emotional competence in order…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Development, Social Development
Baker, Tanya Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study examined the relationships and effects of women's learning styles and achievement and success at a Midwestern, private, Catholic, liberal arts women's undergraduate program. The primary focus was on first-year female students' learning styles and how these learning styles may affect their GPAs and decisions to persist to…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Success, Cognitive Style
Bantum, Camilla Nancy Phillips – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the influence of campus-based and online-based community college developmental English courses on two student success factors: course persistence and course success. Retrospective data on all first year California community college students enrolled in developmental English courses between 2008 and 2011 were analyzed for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Community Colleges, Delivery Systems, Teaching Methods