Student Engagement and Institutional Graduation Rates: Identifying High-Impact Educational Practices for Community Colleges

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 766-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek V. Price ◽  
Esau Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Educational Practices

Redesigning an Undergraduate Global Health Course to Increase Student Engagement and Incorporate High-Impact Educational Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 237337992097439
Author(s):  
Denise C. Nelson-Hurwitz ◽  
Thomas H. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Student Development ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Undergraduate Public Health

In many undergraduate public health programs, global health is an introductory course encountered early in the curriculum. At the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the undergraduate global health course reinforces introductory content within a global health framework while building skills in preparation for upper-division work. The global health course was completely redesigned in January 2018 to increase student engagement and incorporate high-impact educational practices, including experiential learning opportunities, diversity/global learning, and collaborative assignments. New activities incorporated include a water carrying exercise to simulate efforts required for the billions of people worldwide who manually transport water for daily use and a model United Nations scenario-based activity based on a writing assignment proposing an international policy from the position of a selected country. Incorporation of relatively brief written assignments early in the undergraduate public health curriculum additionally serves to support student development of written communication skills throughout the program and helps in early identification of students who may need additional support in writing skills. Assessment of the new course was conducted through student feedback, student performance on assignments, and student growth/development throughout the course. Through successful course redesign students emerge excited about international opportunities for public health practice and with a greater empathy for global citizens living abroad.

scholarly journals Supporting Community College Students from Start to Degree Completion: Long-Term Evidence from a Randomized Trial of CUNY’s ASAP

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Weiss ◽  
Alyssa Ratledge ◽  
Colleen Sommo ◽  
Himani Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
Degree Completion ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
Low Income Students ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
The City

Nationwide, graduation rates at community colleges are discouragingly low. This randomized experiment provides evidence that graduation rates can be increased dramatically. The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) is a comprehensive, integrated, 3-year program that has an estimated 18 percentage point effect on 3-year graduation rates, increases 6-year graduation rates by an estimated 10 percentage points, and helps students graduate more quickly. Graduation effect estimates of this magnitude are exceptional in randomized experiments conducted in higher education, offering hope of what is possible when serving low-income students. (JEL H75, I23, I24, I28)

E-Portfolios

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Giering ◽  
Yitna B. Firdyiwek
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Research University ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Learning Engagement ◽  
High Impact Practice ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

This chapter describes the experiences of a liberal arts college that is part of a large research university implementing e-portfolios with a focus on learning engagement. Using qualitative data collected over time and programmatic experience, the team assesses the depth of engagement their students are experiencing, to determine whether most students are using e-portfolios to engage in learning on their own, or only when prompted to do so by faculty within the confines of a single course. Too few students have taken full ownership of their e-portfolios and engaged with them as a meta-high impact practice. Implications of this finding suggest faculty using e-portfolios need to be intentional about student engagement at the meta-high impact level. Part of achieving this is developing further clarity on what it looks like when e-portfolios are designed to be used as a meta-high impact practice while applying more rigorous methods to determine when students have reached this level of engagement.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document