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Direct linkKennedy, Emily Huddart; Boyd, Amanda – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Campus common reading programs are intended to stimulate critical thinking and dialogue across disciplines yet scarce evidence exists to evaluate the success of such programs. We assess the extent to which engagement in an environmentally-themed common reading program is related to (1) concern for waste-related issues, (2) beliefs that addressing…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Reading Programs, Wastes, Conservation (Environment)
Download full textHagley, Eric – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
Extensive graded reading (EGR) was carried out with a cohort of 600 engineering students in a university in northern Japan. Pre-and post-surveys were conducted to discover changes in the general reading habits of students, their attitudes toward the assessment method and how goals changed over the course of study. The first survey was carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Engineering Education, Reading Instruction
Soria, Krista M.; Mitchell, Tania D. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between first-year undergraduates' (n = 1,701) participation in learning communities and their development of leadership and multicultural competence. The sample included first-year students who were enrolled at six large, public research universities in 2012 and completed the Student…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Communities of Practice, Student Participation, Leadership Training
Goldfine, Ruth; Mixson-Brookshire, Deborah; Hoerrner, Keisha; Morrissey, Julia – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2011
A large, suburban, Southeastern university conducted a multi-method study on the effectiveness of its common reader program in meeting multiple learning objectives. Data from approximately 700 respondents, all of whom were first-year students enrolled in 37 sections of the university's traditional first-year seminar course, revealed that the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Critical Thinking, Comparative Analysis
