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Nelson Laird, Thomas F.; Chen, Daniel; Kuh, George D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Using the institution as the unit of analysis, this chapter examines persistence rates for hundreds of institutions that have administered National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). A model predicting persistence with institutional and aggregated student characteristics was used to determine two groups of institutions: those that are doing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Educational Practices, Student Characteristics
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Sweitzer, Vicki L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
In this article, the author describes a study that provides a theoretical lens for examining the doctoral student experience that accounts for the multiple relationships that facilitate or stifle doctoral student development. One important outcome of students' relationships is the development of a professional identity as integrated scholar or…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Experience, Student Development
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Wildman, Terry M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Student learning and student development are part of a unified framework rather than separate interests to be pursued independently.
Descriptors: Student Development, College Students, College Faculty, Intellectual Development
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Bekken, Barbara; Marie, Joan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Making self-authorship a goal of an interdisciplinary multisemester general education program shows great promise for meeting desired undergraduate learning outcomes for citizen-learners. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, General Education, Outcomes of Education, College Students