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Direct linkNita A. Tarchinski; Thomas Matthew Colclough; Ashley Atkinson; Emily Bonem; Nathan Emery; Victoria Farrar; Madeleine Gonin; Daniel Guberman; Eleanor Louson; Matthew Mahavongtrakul; Timothy McKay; Marco Molinaro; Meryl Motika; Lizette Alda Muñoz Rojas; Hurshal Pol; Kem Saichaie; Kelsey Smart; Megan Stowe; Natasha T. Turman; Jenna Marie Thomas Vest; Ryan Sweeder – To Improve the Academy, 2025
The STEM Equity Learning Community (SELC) project guided multidisciplinary teams from nine large, public research institutions through a yearlong experience. We aimed to support instructors and undergraduate students in developing equity-mindedness to drive structural change efforts on their campuses. The SELCs were supported by access to equity…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Equal Education, STEM Education, Educational Change
Erin White Beaman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to learn which activities are effective for producing a community of learners, retaining students, preparing students for the rigors of nursing school, and determining the best practices for Living Learning Community (LLC) housing and academic policies for nursing students. The research utilized a qualitative case…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Nursing Students, Communities of Practice, Student Attitudes
Majka, Elizabeth A.; Bennett, Kyle F.; Sawyer, Thomas P.; Johnson, Jon L.; Guenther, Merrilee F. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2023
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) represent an economical and practical way for institutions to equitably offer research experiences to large numbers of students. Although the benefits of CUREs are well documented, most CURE models are not guided by theory and are discipline specific, which limits their application. We used a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Student Experience, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textGrabsch, Dustin K.; Webb, Stephanie; Moore, Lori L.; Dooley, Kim E. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2021
High-impact practices in education can have a transformative influence on students' educational growth and personal development; however, research suggests that not all students participate in these educationally purposeful activities. Some institutions have integrated high-impact-practice programs into the curriculum to center these opportunities…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Student Characteristics, Decision Making, Barriers
Covarrubias, Rebecca; Laiduc, Giselle; Quinteros, Katherine; Arreaga, Joseline – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2023
"Servingness" is a multidimensional framework detailing how Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) -- which enroll at least 25% Latinx students -- can shift from merely "enrolling" to meaningfully "serving" students holistically. Critically examining how institutional structures facilitate or inhibit servingness is…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Hispanic American Students, Student Needs, Educational Environment
Wabike, Paul – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
This article looks at how membership of a community impacts learning for individuals. Community membership and learning have received much attention from scholars and practitioners alike (for example, in Wolfensberger, 2012; Inkelas, Jessup-Anger, Wawrzynski, & Benjamin, 2007; Wenger, 1998). Specifically, many studies have focused on learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Honors Curriculum, Higher Education
Mitchell, Tania D.; Rost-Banik, Colleen – Educational Studies, 2020
Examining alumni perspectives from three multi-term service-learning programs, this study highlights the dimensions of the cohort experience that alumni credit as critical to their learning and development, namely building relationships among diverse perspectives, teaching and learning from one another, and sharing a commitment to social justice.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Alumni, Communities of Practice, Interpersonal Relationship
Kern, Beth B.; Kingsbury, Tabitha – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Learning communities have been a part of the higher educational landscape since the 1980s. Despite their widespread use, research regarding their effectiveness with enhancing retention is sparse. This study describes a freshmen curricular learning community linking courses required for all business majors. Retention for students taking courses in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Freshmen, Business Administration Education, Academic Persistence
Diehl, Tara E.; Hamman, Karen J.; Rivera, Serina – Learning Assistance Review, 2020
Students taking developmental mathematics often struggle with dedicating adequate time to engage with material outside of class. The institution in this study requires participation in out-of-class support and has utilized a variety of models of support. The goal of these support programs is to increase the pass rates for students and aid in the…
Descriptors: Study, Group Activities, Communities of Practice, Remedial Mathematics
Eaton, Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Post baccalaureate teacher education programs are an effective way to increase the teaching pool with candidates who are content experts (Beijaard et al. 2004; Brantlinger, A., & Smith, B., 2013; Zeichner, K. M., & Schulte, A. K., 2001; Schultz, K., & Ravitch, S. M. 2013; Humphrey et al., 2008). Many of these programs utilize a cohort…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Preservice Teachers, Internship Programs, Communities of Practice
Faught, Gayle G.; Martin, Melissa – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2022
In a paired-course project, students from psychology and special education collaborated to assess skills of children with intellectual disabilities. In this mixed-methods study, the researchers (1) administered measures of student engagement and career decision making to students pre- and post-project and (2) coded student journals for engagement…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Special Education, Cooperative Learning, Children
Sandvik, Lise Vikan – Assessment Matters, 2019
This article reports findings from a nationwide research project conducted in Norway to determine the impact of the national programme called Assessment for Learning (AfL, 2010-2014) on school practices and classroom practices when assessment is used as a tool for learning. Based on a conceptual mapping tool developed to analyse AfL communities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Educational Practices
Wu, Junjie Gavin; Miller, Lindsay – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This article reports the study of a novel way of raising tertiary-level students' native cultural awareness (NCA) via an informal mobile learning community. Through two cycles of action research at a teacher-education university in East China, the study drew upon the Community of Practice (CoP) theory to form a synchronous English chat group.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bowers, Maureen E.; Tobin, Leah K.; Lee, Jessica; Skendall, Kristan C.; Coale, Frank J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2020
Gemstone seeks to develop students' research and collaboration skills, foster leadership opportunities, and provide a sense of belonging on a large campus utilizing the Best Practices Model (BPM) and a variety of high impact practices (HIPs), like a Gemstone-specific orientation program called Gems Camp. While studies have demonstrated that LLCs…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Communities of Practice, Skill Development, Research Skills
Roldan, Malu; Kothari, Tanvi; Dunn-Jensen, Linda M. – Journal of Management Education, 2020
High-impact practices (HIPs) have been shown to be effective in helping first-year students successfully transition into college. However, since most of the research on HIPs has been done in small liberal arts settings, little is known about the efficacy and implementation practices of HIPs in large, public, primarily nonresidential institutions,…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Commuter Colleges, Public Colleges, School Size
