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Blaich, Charles; Wise, Kathleen; Pascarella, Ernest T.; Roksa, Josipa – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
In higher education it is sometimes hard to ignore the doom and gloom combination of shrinking budgets and expanding accountability. Education is also in the midst of a conversation about teaching and learning that encompasses a range of innovative pedagogies, assessments, and high impact practices. Organizations such as the Association of…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Course Descriptions, Instructional Improvement, Educational Practices
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Loes, Chad N.; Saichaie, Kem; Padget, Ryan D.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
This study estimated the effects of teacher organization, clarity, classroom challenge and faculty expectations, support, and prompt feedback on students' inclination to inquire and lifelong learning during the first year of college. Controlling for a battery of potential confounding influences, teacher organization was positively associated with…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Teacher Behavior, Inquiry, Intention
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A study of 2,392 freshman in 23 diverse two- and four-year colleges in 16 states found a number of variables associated with students' internal attribution at the end of the first college year. Variables included college type (two- vs. four-year), exposure to postsecondary education, work responsibilities, course organization, instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, College Athletics