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Direct linkWise, Sarah B.; Archie, Tim; Laursen, Sandra – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
Nearly half of all college students and the majority of college students of color begin their studies at 2-year colleges. The educational quality that these students experience will affect future success, but little research to date has focused on the professional development (PD) of their instructors. We offer an exploratory study on PD needs and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Download full textAnthony C. Edwards; Suzanne Hood; Murray Jensen; Ron Gerrits; Melaney Farr; Chasity O'Malley – HAPS Educator, 2023
Muddiest point and peer instruction are evidence-based instructional practices that can be used to address student learning gaps. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of modality (face to face or online) on student perceptions of the effectiveness of combined muddiest point and peer instruction activities in community college…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Evidence Based Practice, Program Effectiveness, In Person Learning
Dalia Salloum; Kamie Stack; Suzanne Hood – HAPS Educator, 2024
While active learning strategies have been promoted by researchers as practices to increase performance and retention, some practices have been shown to have unintended negative effects on students such as increasing anxiety. Students often report the debilitating effect of test-taking anxiety on their performance. This study investigated the use…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Audience Response Systems, Test Construction, Anatomy
Tim Archie; Sarah B. Wise; Javier Robalino; Marjee Chmiel; Sandra Laursen – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) have been shown to benefit students in undergraduate biology, but little is known about the degree to which community college (CC) biology instructors use EBIPs or the barriers they encounter. We surveyed CC biology instructors to characterize how they use EBIPs, their capacity to use EBIPs, and…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Community Colleges, Biology
McNair, Lucy R.; Garrison-Fletcher, Leigh – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Our article presents the development, conceptual toolkit, and preliminary observations of an interdisciplinary Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) professional development seminar at our urban community college in Queens, New York. Although innovative in promoting inclusion and diversity, the college reflects a common monolingual 'Standard…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Areas, Language of Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
Jensen, Murray; Hull, Kerry; Hood, Suzanne; Lawford, Heather; Ross, Kyla; Gerrits, Ron; Ott, Betsy – HAPS Educator, 2020
Evidence Based Instructional Practices (EBIPs) have been shown to increase student engagement in college classrooms. Education research conducted to date on the effectiveness of these EBIPs and their impact on students' has largely focused on four-year and research-intensive institutions, and community colleges represent a significant gap in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Educational Research, Evidence Based Practice
Gamby, Sonja; Bauer, Christopher F. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: There is a critical need for evidence-based metacognition instruction models with an ease of implementation. Three issues involved in advancing the implementation and assessment of metacognitive interventions are: (i) the lack of an operational framework for the development of metacognition; (ii) metacognition instruction models that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Self Concept
Clark, Kimberly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is considered a major respiratory therapy competency established by the profession and essential to the clinical decision-making process. Currently, there is a limited understanding of what factors influence the use of EBP among respiratory therapists. The purpose of this study was to assess the factors associated…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Knowledge Level, Self Efficacy, Medical School Faculty
Eddy, Pamela L.; Hao, Yi; Markiewicz, Chris; Iverson, Ellen – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Faculty development is often under-emphasized in community colleges (or 2-year colleges; 2YCs). This research reports on data collected from a National Science Foundation (NSF) project involving 2YC geoscience faculty as "change agents." We studied 22 geoscience faculty involved in a NSF funded longitudinal project that focused on three…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Change Agents, Adult Students, Situated Learning
MDRC, 2019
MDRC's Scaling Up Community College Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) aims to increase graduation rates for low-income students and students of color by partnering with states and colleges to implement large-scale, financially sustainable support programs based on strong evidence. SUCCESS combines components that have been proven to help…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges
Dolan, Erin L.; Borrero, Michelle; Callis-Duehl, Kristine; Chen Musgrove, Miranda M.; de Lima, Joelyn; Ero-Tolliver, Isi; Gerhart, Laci M.; Goodwin, Emma C.; Hamilton, Lindsey R.; Henry, Meredith A.; Herrera, Jose; Huot, Bethany; Kiser, Stacey; Ko, Melissa E.; Kravec, Marcy E.; Lee, Mark; Limeri, Lisa B.; Peffer, Melanie E.; Pires, Debra; Ramirez Lugo, Juan S.; Sharp, Starlette M.; Suarez, Nicole A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The 2019 Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference (UBER GRC), titled "Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education," brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working to identify, promote, and understand widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching, learning, and success…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Evidence Based Practice
Sulaiman Alrabah; Shu-hua Wu – Online Submission, 2019
The study measured the awareness and use of metacognitive reading strategies among English as a foreign language (EFL) students at a medical college in Kuwait. The college offers a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and a two-year Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN). Data collection involved distributing the Metacognitive Awareness of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Macdonald, R. Heather; Beane, Rachel J.; Baer, Eric M. D.; Eddy, Pamela L.; Emerson, Norlene R.; Hodder, Jan; Iverson, Ellen R.; McDaris, John R.; O'Connell, Kristin; Ormand, Carol J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
Faculty play an important role in attracting students to the geosciences, helping them to thrive in geoscience programs, and preparing them for careers. Thus, faculty have the responsibility to work toward broadening participation in the geosciences by implementing equitable and inclusive practices in their teaching and their programs. Faculty…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, College Faculty, Faculty Development
Illinois Community College Board, 2021
The mission and vision of adult education is to provide every individual in Illinois access to Adult Education and Literacy services. In Illinois, more than 1.15 million adults have less than 12 grades of formal education, approximately 2.8 million Illinois residents speak a language other than English in their home, and more than 350,944…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Federal Legislation, Planning
Wilson, Monique – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Developmental math currently poses a hurdle that many community college students are unable to overcome. Eighty percent of developmental math students do not successfully complete any college-level course within three years (Bailey, Jeong, & Cho, as cited by Strother, Van Campen & Grunow, 2013, p. 1). Despite numerous reform attempts,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Remedial Mathematics, Community Colleges, Teaching Methods
