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Amanda M. Rudolph; Shaqwana Freeman-Green; Laurel Byrne; Emma Savage-Davis; Lianne M. Jones; Jamia Thomas-Richmond – New Educator, 2024
Milner (2012) defines opportunity gaps as the uncontrollable factors such as race, language, or economic status that can impact students' success in schools. Rather than placing focus on students' achievement, examinations of opportunity gaps emphasize the systems and structures that may contribute to disparities in student outcomes. The…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Career Choice, Teacher Shortage
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Priest, Kerry L.; Saucier, Donald A.; Eiselein, Gregory – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This study looked to situated learning (Lave & Wenger, 1991) in order to explore students' participation in the social practices of first-year learning communities. Wenger's (1998) elaboration on "communities of practice" provides insight into how such participation transforms learners. These perspectives frame learning as a…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Student Attitudes