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The First Year of College : Research, Theory, and Practice on Improving the Student Experience and Increasing Retention /
"This book is premised on a very powerful social/educational concern about college retention rates: one-third of first-year students seriously consider leaving college during their first term, and only half of all students who start college ultimately graduate. This book examines the first year...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[New York] :
Cambridge University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Societal and Demographic Factors Underlying First-Year Student Success
- Exploring the Role of Affordability on First-Year Student Access and Persistence / Jamey Rorison, Mamie Voight, and Alain Poutré
- Realizing the Educational Benefits of Diversity: A State of Perpetual Institutional Self-Correction / Michell J. Chang
- First-Generation College Student Success / Evan Mulfinger, Chen Zuo, Frederick L. Oswald, and Alex Casillas
- Part II: Practices That Foster Student Success
- Investigating First-Year Seminars as a High-Impact Practice / Jennifer R. Keup and Dallin George Young
- Transforming the "Real First-Year Experience": The Case for and Approaches to Improving Gateway Courses / Andrew K. Koch and John N. Gardner
- Strengthening Success for Students with Multiple Risk Factors / David A. Laude, Lindsey A. Kaschner, Cassandre Giguere Alvarado, and Carolyn K. Connerat
- Student Engagement and Retention / James Cole, Robert Gonyea, and Louis Rocconi
- Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem and Data-Driven Approaches for Improving Student Success / Alfred Essa and Stephen Laster
- Part III: Attitude and Behavior Change Promoting Student Success / Nudges, Norms, and Navigation: Behavioral Insights to Improve Student Success / Benjamin Castleman and Katharine Meyer
- Promoting Mindset Change and Student Success / Robert S. Feldman, Karan Goel, Arthur Blakemore, and Mattityahu Zimbler
- Stereotype Threat and Stereotype Inoculation: Barriers that Prevent and Interventions that Promote the Success of Underrepresented Students in the First Year of College / Tara C. Dennehy, Jacqueline S. Smith, Chelsea Moore, and Nilanjana Dasgupta.