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Hochanadel, Aaron; Finamore, Dora – Journal of International Education Research, 2015
Students face a wealth of challenges in college for example a lack of support, sometimes making it difficult to persevere. However, in an academic environment that teaches grit and fosters growth, students can learn to persist. Those who believe intelligence is fixed and cannot be changed exert less effort to succeed. Students who persevere when…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Ability, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes
Cook-Sather, Alison – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2022
The intersection in 2020 of the new COVID-19 pandemic with the ongoing pandemic of anti-black racism exacerbated existing injustices as well as caused and revealed new inequities in US higher education. Because inequities in assessment in particular were intensified by these twin pandemics, faculty at several US colleges revised assessment…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education, Student Evaluation
Button, Amy Lynn; Iwachiw, Jessica; Atlas, Jana G. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2019
This paper describes the academic consultation services offered to students with disabilities (SWD) at a small university. Each SWD is entitled to meet regularly with an academic consultant. The consultants are trained in offering a variety of services, including organization/time management, note-taking/reading comprehension strategies, goal…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Support Services, Consultation Programs
Dellwo, David R. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
A multi-stage pre/post testing scheme is developed to gauge course effectiveness using gain and loss components of normalized change. The components, unlike normalized change itself, can be used to distinguish courses that promote acquisition as well as retention of information from courses that promote acquisition at the expense of retention or…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Courses
Weiss, Jen – Educational Foundations, 2007
This article takes up what people might learn about resistance and surveillance by looking at how students at a Bronx, New York, high school have responded to security initiatives recently imposed on them. It discusses three responses: the protest; tactical avoidance; and what the author calls emergent participation. The author addresses each of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, School Security, Resistance (Psychology)