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Thomas J. Capretta; Jingyang Zhang; Eric M. Anderman; Barbara J. Boone – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Thomas J. Capretta, Jingyang (Max) Zhang, Eric M. Anderman, and Barbara J. Boone revisit Joyce Epstein's 1995 Kappan article on overlapping spheres of influence and family-school partnerships. They highlight one idea from the article that has been largely overlooked -- the role of student voice and leadership. To refocus researchers' and…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Student Empowerment
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Shilling, Tammy; Thayer, Jerome; Coria-Navia, Anneris; Ferguson, Heather – Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2023
Active teaching methods are believed to facilitate higher-order thinking skills and prepare allied health students for independent clinical decision-making. This quantitative, correlational study aimed to explain the relationships between student preferences for active over traditional methods and their beliefs, the frequency and positiveness of…
Descriptors: Preferences, Active Learning, Student Attitudes, Student Experience
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Sydney M. Silverstein; Whitney Jenkins; Marietta Orlowski; Sara Paton – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We describe and analyze case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) efforts across Ohio's public universities in response to COVID-19 to distill challenges and lessons learned and suggest future opportunities for universities to mobilize in the face of emergent public health crises. Participants: Faculty, staff, and graduate students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Colleges, Emergency Programs
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Broadhurst, Christopher J. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2019
This chapter explores how two student activists used their roles as student body presidents to lead their campuses to protest the Kent State Shootings in 1970. The administrative responses and their strategies for working with activists are also explored.
Descriptors: Social Change, Student Government, Activism, Student Role
Hart, Lisa K. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Dual credit programs afford high school students the opportunity to earn college credit prior to graduation while exposing them to the rigor and culture of college, which may help make college more accessible to first-generation college students and underserved populations. The purpose of this study was to understand students' dual credit…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, First Generation College Students, College Students
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Anthony, Anika B.; Greene, Howard; Post, Paul E.; Parkhurst, Andrew; Zhan, Xi – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
This paper describes an engineering outreach programme designed to increase the interest of under-represented youth in engineering and to disseminate pre-engineering design challenge materials to K-12 educators and volunteers. Given university students' critical role as facilitators of the outreach programme, researchers conducted a two-year…
Descriptors: College Students, Outreach Programs, Program Descriptions, Engineering Education