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Direct linkAhmed, Shamima – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
Research has documented that applied projects that are experiential and grounded in the course contents offer effective hands-on experience to students to understand the course materials and apply their learnings in a meaningful way. Experiential learning is particularly relevant to Master of Public Administration Programs (MPA), which are usually…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Experiential Learning
Hanusch, Sarah – PRIMUS, 2020
A summative portfolio is a project completed at the end of the semester that gives a student an opportunity to look at a course as a whole. This study investigates whether collegiate mathematics students gain a deeper understanding of course material through the portfolio project, via an analysis of the students' work, and a survey of students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Alternative Assessment, Portfolio Assessment, Summative Evaluation
Download full textSecules, Stephen; Lawson, Wesley – Advances in Engineering Education, 2019
This paper compares an innovative approach to teaching a required introductory C programming course to a traditional C programming course for electrical engineering (EE) students. The novel course utilizes hardware-based projects to motivate students to master language syntax and implement key programming concepts and best practices. In a mixed…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Required Courses, Engineering Education
Bain, Lisa Z. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
There are many different delivery methods used by institutions of higher education. These include traditional, hybrid, and online course offerings. The comparisons of these typically use final grade as the measure of student performance. This research study looks behind the final grade and compares student performance by assessment type, core…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Blended Learning, Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Padgett, Ryan D.; Kilgo, Cindy A. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
In 2011, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition revisited its 1999 National Survey of Senior Seminars and Capstone Courses to explore the current state of culminating experiences in American higher education. Drawn from a sample of public and private colleges and universities across the country, the…
Descriptors: National Surveys, College Seniors, Curriculum, Student Experience
