What Makes the First-Year Seminar High Impact?: Exploring Effective Educational Practices (Research Reports on College Transitions): 7 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942072015 ISBN 13: 9781942072010

Publisher: National Resource Center for The First Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2017

Synopsis

First-year seminars have been widely hailed as a high-impact educational practice, leading to improved academic performance, increased retention, and achievement of critical 21st Century learning outcomes. While the first-year seminar tends to be narrowly defined in the literature, national explorations of course structure and administration underscore the diversity of these curricular initiatives across and within individual campuses. What then are the common demoninators among these highly variable courses that contribute to their educational effectiveness?

A new collection of case studies, representing a wide variety of institutional and seminar types seeks to address this question. Using Kuh and O’Donnell’s eight conditions of effective educational initiatives as a framework, authors describe the structure, pedagogy, and assessment strategies that lead to high-quality seminars. Introductory and concluding essays examine the structural conditions that are likely to support educational effectiveness in the seminar and describe the most commonly reported conditions across all cases. What Makes the First-Year Seminar High Impact? offers abundant models for ensuring the delivery of a high-quality educational experience to entering students.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Resource Center for The First Year Experience & Students in Transition
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1942072015
• ISBN 13: 9781942072010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Skipper Tracy L.