First Year of College (eBook, ePUB)

Research, Theory, and Practice on Improving the Student Experience and Increasing Retention
Redaktion: Feldman, Robert S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 of college from a variety of perspectives to paint a comprehensive picture of the intersecting challenges facing today's students and higher education institutions. Technological advances, increases in college attendance costs, and increasing political pressure on colleges to prove their value have changed the landscape of the first year of college, but researchers have identified new approaches to improve student and institutional success that have shown considerable success and promise. In this comprehensive volume, top educational researchers explore topics of student success, persistence, and retention in the first year of college.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316819463
• Artikelnr.: 50463746

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Societal and Demographic Factors Underlying First-Year
Student Success: 1. Exploring the role of affordability on first-year
student access and persistence Jamey Rorison, Mamie Voight and Alain
Poutré; 2. Realizing the educational benefits of diversity: a state of
perpetual institutional self-correction Michell J. Chang; 3.
First-generation college student success Evan Mulfinger, Chen Zuo,
Frederick L. Oswald and Alex Casillas; Part II. Practices that Foster
Student Success: 4. Investigating first-year seminars as a high-impact
practice Jennifer R. Keup and Dallin George Young; 5. Transforming the
'real first-year experience': the case for and approaches to improving
gateway courses Andrew K. Koch and John N. Gardner; 6. Strengthening
success for students with multiple risk factors David A. Laude, Lindsey A.
Kaschner, Cassandre Giguere Alvarado and Carolyn K. Connerat; 7. Student
engagement and retention James Cole, Robert Gonyea and Louis Rocconi; 8.
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: 9. Nudges, norms, and navigation:
behavioral insights to improve student success Benjamin Castleman and
Katharine Meyer; 10. Promoting mindset change and student success Robert S.
Feldman, Karan Goel, Arthur Blakemore and Mattityahu Zimbler; 11.
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; Index.