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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Silencing Whom? Linking Campus Climates for Religious, Spiritual, and Worldview Diversity to Student Worldviews
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Bowman, Nicholas A.; Rockenbach, Alyssa Bryant – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This study examined the perceptions of campus climate among students of diverse worldviews. Results from this study suggest that climate perceptions and experiences were more negative among worldview majority students (e.g., Protestants, Catholics) than among worldview minority students (e.g., Muslims, Jews) and nonreligious students. Theoretical…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, World Views, College Students
Deeply Affecting First-Year Students' Thinking: Deep Approaches to Learning and Three Dimensions of Cognitive Development
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Laird, Thomas F. Nelson; Seifert, Tricia A.; Pascarella, Ernest T.; Mayhew, Matthew J.; Blaich, Charles F. – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This study estimates the effects of a deep approaches to learning scale and its subscales on measures of students' critical thinking, need for cognition, and positive attitudes toward literacy, controlling for pre-college scores for the outcomes and other covariates. Results suggest reflection is critical to making gains across the outcomes.
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cognitive Development, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking
Learning's "Weak" Link to Persistence
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Wolniak, Gregory C.; Mayhew, Matthew J.; Engberg, Mark E. – Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This study advances the understanding of college persistence by examining five dimensions of student learning in relation to second-year persistence. Two of the five dimensions of learning were found to be significant predictors of persistence, and each was moderated by social integration. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Social Integration, Predictor Variables, Learning Experience
A Multilevel Examination of the Influence of Institutional Type on the Moral Reasoning Development of First-Year Students
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Mayhew, Matthew J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of institutional type on the moral reasoning development of 1,469 first-year students. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to account for students nested within institutions. Moral reasoning gains were related to, but not dependent upon, institutional type, with students at liberal arts…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Moral Development, College Freshmen, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Diversity and Moral Reasoning: How Negative Diverse Peer Interactions Affect the Development of Moral Reasoning in Undergraduate Students
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Engberg, Mark E. – Journal of Higher Education, 2010
How do interactions with diverse peers affect moral reasoning development? Results from a longitudinal study of 171 students enrolled in an Intergroup Dialogue or Introduction to Sociology course indicate that students who experience more negative interactions with diverse peers report lower developmental gains in moral reasoning, although the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Moral Development, Student Diversity
Factors Contributing to Faculty Incorporation of Diversity-Related Course Content
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Grunwald, Heidi E. – Journal of Higher Education, 2006
This study examines the factors that contribute to 336 faculty members' decisions to incorporate diversity-related content into their course materials. The final model has an 86% success rate in predicting likelihood to incorporate. Significant predictors include a race by gender interaction, participation in diversity-related activities, and…
Descriptors: Course Content, College Faculty, Outcomes of Education, Multicultural Education