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Assessment Update: Progress, Trends, and Practices in Higher Education. Volume 30, Issue 3, May-June 2018
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Hundley, Stephen P., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2018
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) Assessment in Postsecondary Chemistry Education: A Comparison of Course Types (Rebecca E. Gibbons, Jessica J. Reed, Shalini Srinivasan, Sachel M. Villafañe, Emily Laga, Joshua Vega, Kristen L. Murphy, and Jeffrey R. Raker); (2) Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic:…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Evaluation, College Science, Chemistry
A Case for Critical Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinarity as Democratic Education
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Stoller, Aaron – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020
While the scholarship of interdisciplinarity has grown prolifically in the last thirty years, the discourse primarily frames interdisciplinarity as an instrumental research construct. In this article, I will argue that this framework should be expanded to consider how interdisciplinary engagement can support education for democracy. The article…
Descriptors: Democracy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Philosophy, Guidelines
The Link between High-Impact Practices and Student Learning: Some Longitudinal Evidence
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Kilgo, Cindy A.; Ezell Sheets, Jessica K.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
The current paper used data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education--a longitudinal, pretest/posttest design--to estimate the effects of participation in the ten "high-impact" educational practices put forth and endorsed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) on a variety of liberal arts…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Outcomes of Education, Liberal Arts, Higher Education
The Freshman Seminar Program: Experimental Evaluation of an Introduction to the Liberal Arts.
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Mark, Melvin M.; Romano, John J. – Evaluation Review, 1982
A trial program to improve the quality of liberal arts education gave freshmen students at Pennsylvania State University an introduction to a particular discipline, improved advising, and a college orientation. Results suggest that the program led to more favorable attitudes but no perceptible differences in performance or retention. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, General Education
Values and Issues: The Humanities Program at Wofford College.
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Thoroughman, Thomas V. – Liberal Education, 1979
The development of a new humanities program is described. This includes a freshman seminar as an introduction to humanistic study, the modification of traditional language requirements, and the establishment of a writing and reading lab, an issues and values interdisciplinary seminar, and humanities and intercultural majors. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Curriculum Development, Federal Aid, First Year Seminars
The First Year Seminar as a Predictor of Academic Achievement and Persistence.
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Hyers, Albert D.; Joslin, Monica Neset – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1998
A study at a small liberal arts college found grades earned in a required, interdisciplinary freshman year seminar (FYS) were better predictors of academic achievement and persistence than high school rank, Scholastic Assessment Test scores. FYS grades were found a useful substitute for cognitive and noncognitive variables that correlate with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen