Posts Tagged ‘retention’
August 27 - Student Retention: Faculty Taking on a Bigger Role
By: Magna Publications in Trends in Higher Education
Retention is a very important issue in higher education right now. It is not difficult to understand why, when you look at the budget constraints most postsecondary schools are currently facing.
July 29 - What Faculty Members Need to Know About Retention
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
If you have been asked to become a part of a retention effort on your campus, you’re not alone. Today, busy faculty members are being asked to pay increasing attention this critical issue. This paper details key methods professors can employ to prevent dropouts and increase student success in college.
May 6 - Why Students Cram for Exams
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
It will probably not shock any instructor to learn that students cram for exams. What may be a bit surprising is the percentage of students who do: somewhere between 25 percent and 50 percent, depending on the study. In the research reported in the article referenced below, approximately 45 percent of students admitted to cramming.
February 5 - Teaching Unprepared Students: Success and Retention Strategies
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
There are more unprepared students arriving on college campuses than ever before. The number of college students with defined learning disabilities has tripled, while many other students simply have inadequate reading, writing, and study skills. Get practical strategies for improving at-risk students’ skills and increasing student success rates.
November 3 - Helping Your Learning Community Reach Its Goals
By: Barbara Leigh Smith in Learning Communities
Learning communities come in all shapes and sizes. Some simply link courses and put students in a cohort; many go considerably beyond that to build a learning environment around core practices known to promote student learning. Some are new, while others have been in place for nearly 20 years. If you would like to take
September 17 - Using Clickers to Assess and Engage Student Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
In just 60-minutes you will learn many different questioning styles for clickers, and how they benefit your students and you. Using Clickers to Assess and Engage Student Learning provides comprehensive, pedagogical strategies to integrate the technology into current and future courses.
September 11 - Encouraging Faculty Involvement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
By: Rob Kelly in Teaching and Learning
Despite the admirable goal of improving student learning by assessment, many faculty members are uneasy about participating in assessment-related activities. One way to overcome negative feelings about assessment while promoting improved student learning is to encourage faculty to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
September 9 - PICM Feedback Model Helps Keep Online Students Motivated
By: Elwin Jones in Distance Learning Administration, Teaching and Learning
In an online learning environment, it’s easy for students to feel isolated or unsure of themselves, particularly if they’re adult students who’ve been away from school for a long time. In the absence of frequent and relevant instructor feedback, these students can get discouraged and may even become reluctant to submit assignments. Soon satisfaction and
September 1 - Reading Assignment Strategies that Encourage Deep Learning
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
When given a reading assignment, some students feel they have met their obligation if they have forced their eyes to ‘touch’ (in appropriate sequence) each word on the pages assigned. How can we entice students to read the material we assign, and how do we help them develop strategies for deep comprehension and retention of
May 16 - Learning Communities: Impact on Retention & Academic Performance
By: Wordpress Admin in Online Seminars
Improved retention and improved grades are just two of the most visible, and measurable, benefits to instituting learning communities. By using this valuable concept on your campus, you’ll also see more engaged faculty and increased collaboration across the curriculum, in addition to reinforcing general education requirements and the creation of “Classrooms without Walls.”
Dr. John Fallon is the Chair of the Humanities Department at Rhodes State College in Ohio. He has been Assistant to the President for Planning and chair of the College's Strategic Planning Council. He is a full-time faculty member; past president of the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges and the editor of the Journal of the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges.