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Wolfgang, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The issue of academic undermatching involves students enrolling at colleges and universities below the level of selectivity to which their academic profiles indicate they could gain admission. Undermatching has received significant attention because students who undermatch have been shown to experience less favorable outcomes than their peers who…
Descriptors: College Choice, Rural Population, College Students, Student Experience
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Sun, Shuting; Gao, Xuesong; Rahmani, Bita Dwi; Bose, Priyanka; Davison, Chris – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
In recent years, there has been a growing body of research on student voice in the context of higher education, generating significant insights for pedagogical improvement. This systematic literature review aims to examine studies on student voice from 2011 to 2022, specifically those concerned with assessment and feedback in higher education. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Feedback (Response), Literature Reviews
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Rios, Daisy N.; Borel, Patrick E.; Morris, Rebecca A.; Eggers, Michele; Calhoun, Molly; Steiner, Sue – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2023
The increased national focus on racism and white supremacy has encouraged social workers to look more closely at racism in the profession, which includes racism that occurs in social work education. This study specifically examines social work students' experiences with racism in social work classes. A convenience sample of current and former…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Racism, Social Work, Professional Education
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Veine, Sven; Anderson, Martha K.; Skancke, Lars B.; Wallin, Patric – Journal of Experiential Education, 2023
Background: Facilitation can be used to support experiential learning in higher education but can be a resource-intensive approach. One solution to compensate for this may be to educate learning assistants (LAs) as facilitators. Purpose: This article presents a facilitator education program where LAs receive facilitator training to facilitate…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Teamwork
Osuna, Amanda Isabel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Trust is an essential pillar of higher education that facilitates positive student experiences and well-being and has been linked to enrollment, retention, and continued involvement after graduation (Ghosh et al., 2001; Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 1998). Understanding student trust in higher education institutions (HEI) is an important task, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Student College Relationship, Trust (Psychology), Risk
Vasquez, Deborah McLeod – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research was done to establish the barriers and benefits of study abroad for African American college students. The research questions were: "Why do African American students desire to study abroad?"; "What are the barriers to studying abroad and how do African American students overcome them?"; and "What is the…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Foreign Students, Study Abroad
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Todd Partridge; Kady Schneiter – College Teaching, 2025
After encountering students who lost motivation throughout the semester, and finding most students' questions focused on how to improve their grade rather than on understanding the material, we developed a gamified grading structure hoping to remove students' barriers to motivation in the classroom. A brief review of the literature on known…
Descriptors: Gamification, Student Motivation, Resilience (Psychology), Grading
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Closs, Lisiane; Mahat, Marian; Imms, Wesley – Learning Environments Research, 2022
We investigated how learning environments--involving their physical, pedagogical, and psychosocial dimensions--influence students learning experiences in an Australian Faculty of Business and Economics. Qualitative data collection involved observations of eight classrooms over a semester, four focus groups with 21 students and interviews with six…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Environmental Influences, Student Experience, Foreign Countries
Brown, Jessica J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore how former National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (DI) Black female student-athletes experienced their mid-major athletic departments and to better understand how they navigated these anti-Black spaces. BlackCrit theory (Dumas & Ross, 2019; Johnson, 2019), Black Feminist Thought…
Descriptors: Blacks, Females, Student Athletes, College Students
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Márquez, Itzel; Sáez, A. Eduardo; Ogden, Kimberly L.; Achilli, Andrea – Chemical Engineering Education, 2022
The lack in process intensification (PI) training may be limiting processes to achieve sustainability goals. This project developed a hands-on course on intensified membrane processes to address knowledge gaps in PI. Bench-scale activities introduced concepts of membrane separation, operating engineering-scale modules provided a near-industrial…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Water Quality, Sustainability, Teaching Methods
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Lolich, Luciana – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
Students' choices in higher education occupy a wide spectrum in recent academic and policy discussions. However, there has been little research on how government discourses on the knowledge-based economy shape, transform or influence students' choices at a micro-level. This paper uses a governmentality framework to link the ways in which the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Risk, Employment Potential
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Mogaji, Emmanuel; Nguyen, Nguyen P. – Industry and Higher Education, 2022
Work placement learning enhances self-efficacy and work readiness for students. However, students with disabilities often have a different experience with regard to work placements. With a growing number of people with disabilities in universities, it is essential to provide students who have disabilities with an inclusive learning and working…
Descriptors: Job Placement, Student Experience, Students with Disabilities, Internship Programs
Kelly, John E. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Public community colleges must adapt to ever-changing student populations to increase student retention and completion levels. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how community college students described their academic experiences and social interactions in a coordinated studies learning community at an urban community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Experience, Social Experience, College Students
Donado, Marjorie Fontalvo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Universities are reflections of our societies and are tasked with educating the next generation of experts. The computer science (CS) phenomenon, with its high-paying jobs, attracts more students than ever to the CS undergraduate major. One may wonder why women are underrepresented in the CS major if they constitute half of university enrollment…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Computer Science Education, Majors (Students)
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Sarah D. Castle; W. Carson Byrd; Benjamin P. Koester; Meaghan I. Pearson; Emily Bonem; Natalia Caporale; Sonja Cwik; Kameryn Denaro; Stefano Fiorini; Yangqiuting Li; Chris Mead; Heather Rypkema; Ryan D. Sweeder; Montserrat B. Valdivia Medinaceli; Kyle M. Whitcomb; Sara E. Brownell; Chantal Levesque-Bristol; Marco Molinaro; Chandralekha Singh; Timothy A. McKay; Rebecca L. Matz – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Background: Large introductory lecture courses are frequently post-secondary students' first formal interaction with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Grade outcomes in these courses are often disparate across student populations, which, in turn, has implications for student retention. This study positions such…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Research Universities, Grades (Scholastic)
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