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Direct linkBryant, Samantha Jo – Community College Enterprise, 2021
Low-income, first-generation (LIFG) student college enrollment has been steadily increasing over the last decade. This group of marginalized students is typically overlooked as needing additional support as they often lack any visual indicators of their LIFG status. LIFG students arrive on campus with unique goals, stories, and challenges but…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, College Students, Educational Strategies
Dexter, Casey A. – Educational Gerontology, 2021
The project described in this paper was designed for an undergraduate course titled the "Psychology of Adulthood and Aging". This course, capped at 20 students, is typically comprised of psychology, pre-nursing, and family studies students. The student learning objectives (SLO's) for the course are: (1) to understand and apply current…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions, Psychology
Xi Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Higher education institutions are facing a major challenge in retaining 1st-year college students and engaging them in meaningful activities and programs to promote their sense of belonging (Strayhorn, 2012; Astin, 1993). Though a few belonging intervention practices have been studied (Perrell, 2018; Peck, 2011), there is a lack of understanding…
Descriptors: Sense of Belonging, Outcomes of Education, Educational Practices, Higher Education
Diessner, Rhett; Kirk, Cameron; Guenthner, Crystn; Pohling, Rico; Mobasher, Saman – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
An undergraduate senior-level course, the psychology of beauty, taught within the positive psychology approach, was designed with the aim to increase state and trait levels of engagement with beauty among its students. The course was a service-learning course in which students were paired by the Area Agency on Aging with elders in the greater…
Descriptors: Psychology, Undergraduate Students, Effect Size, Service Learning
Wagaman, John C. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2017
This article describes four semesters of introductory statistics courses that incorporate service learning and gardening into the curriculum with applications of the binomial distribution, least squares regression and hypothesis testing. The activities span multiple semesters and are iterative in nature.
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Service Learning, Gardening
Finley, Amy E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adult learners represent a significant, and growing, portion of enrollment at higher education institutions. Despite their growing enrollment, adult learners are not retained at nearly the rate of their "traditional" peers, leaving colleges and universities with the need to identify programs and services that specifically address the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education
Duplantier, Karen Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study sought to examine the Holy Cross Immersion, a service-learning trip for senior boys at Holy Cross School, New Orleans, Louisiana. The specific focus of the study is whether the experience increased the participants' awareness of social justice issues, leading to future civic involvement. Individual interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Justice, Program Effectiveness, High School Seniors
Download full textGregory Galford; Nancy Trun; L. Jay Deiner – Science Education and Civic Engagement, 2017
Teaching undergraduate science courses through the lens of local community issues has the potential to help students connect more strongly to the sciences and to the communities near the university. In considering the construction of such courses, it is clear that even community issues that have strong science cores--water quality, viral and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Service Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
Andrade, Maureen Snow; Westover, Jonathan H.; Westover, Andrade – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2020
Service learning is a high-impact practice that helps students develop professional competencies such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving. This study investigated community partners' perceptions of students' professional competencies and their impact. Findings indicate that professional competencies had a significant…
Descriptors: Competence, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Service Learning
Quan, Tracy – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This action-research study describes a course that emphasized critical language awareness (CLA)--an understanding of how language intersects with identity and power--for additional language (L2) learners of Spanish. As L2 learners have been shown to reproduce racist and monolingual discourses, educating them to recognize and question language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Critical Thinking, Cultural Influences
Dealey, Jill – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2020
Active learning, with students engaging in research or activities within the community, is a favoured approach in contemporary higher education. To support this approach, the Criminology and Forensic Studies programmes at the University of Winchester have included student research into miscarriages of justice. The students interrogate evidence…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Justice, Criminal Law
Carlisle, Shauna K. Elbers; Nitta, Keith A.; Murray, Daniel R.; Gourd, Karen M.; Shapiro, Luke – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Community-based learning (CBL) has been linked to improved student civic engagement. However, few studies have evaluated the long-term impact of CBL on student engagement. This study examines students' self-evaluation (N=1,257) of the impact CBL experiences on their civic engagement attitudes and skills at an R1 Liberal Arts institution. The study…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Community Organizations, Citizen Participation, Student Participation
Nickel, Jodi; Hughes, Scott Frederick – Reading Horizons, 2020
This article describes a community service learning collaboration between a teacher education program and a nonprofit literacy society. Seventeen teacher candidates (TCs) tutored young readers weekly for seven months as part of their course-related field experience and completed reflective assignments analyzing their own learning and the learning…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Tutors
Ares-Pernas, Ana; Carvajal, Carmen Coronado; Gomis Rodríguez, Alfonso; Fernández Ibáñez, María Isabel; Díaz Casás, Vicente; Zaragoza Fernández, María Sonia; Bouza Fernández, María Sonia; Santos Pita, Manuela del Pilar; García Allut, Antonio Domingo; Comesaña Pérez, María Pilar; Caínzos López, María Jesús; Feal Cabezón, Belén; Torres Miño, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to present and describe the main actions carried out in six different faculties and common areas such as cultural and research centres and administrative buildings in the Ferrol campus at the University of A Coruña to achieve the second green flag on a Galician University. Design/methodology/approach: A case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Conservation (Environment), Sustainable Development
Xu, Pei; Lone, Todd – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2020
This study develops a three-stage adoption framework to measure the impact of selected factors on a student's learning experience and evaluates the effectiveness of service learning in each learning stage. The agribusiness service-learning course utilized in this study matches groups of students with non-profit agribusiness entities to identify…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Service Learning, Agribusiness, Business Administration Education
