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Direct linkTobolowsky, Barbara F., Ed.; Cox, Bradley E., Ed.; Wagner, Mary T., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2005
The third in a series of volumes reporting on the outcomes related to first-year seminars. Research reports from 39 institutions are collected here. Each report includes descriptions of the institution and its students, the seminar course, research methods, and course outcomes. Reported course outcomes are related to retention, student learning…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Social Integration, Research Methodology, Research Reports
Swing, Randy L., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2004
This second volume of "Proving and Improving" collects essays from the First-Year Assessment Listserv, which is hosted by the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the National Resource Center. Like the first volume, this one brings together the nation's leading experts and practitioners of assessment in the first college year.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Qualitative Research, Early Intervention, Institutional Research
Rendon, Laura I., Ed.; Garcia, Mildred, Ed.; Person, Dawn, Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2004
"Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color" addresses some of the unique challenges and transition issues for African-American, Latino/a, Asian-Pacific American, American Indian/Alaska Native, and multiracial college students. Chapters address specific strategies for working with these student populations to ensure their success…
Descriptors: African American Students, Social Integration, American Indians, Alaska Natives
Mosher, Ralph L.; Connor, David; Kalliel, Katherine M.; Day, James M.; Yokota, Normal; Porter, Mark R.; Whitely, John M. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 1999
The connection between knowing the right or good thing to do, and then actually doing it has long been a puzzle. "Watch what we do, not what we say" goes beyond the revealing admission of a former Attorney General of the United States to the broader reality of human behavior. Parents, teachers, employers, religious educators, and society…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Values Education, Undergraduate Study, Young Adults
Bachner, David J.; Malone, Laurence J.; Snider, Mary C. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2001
This volume argues that international/intercultural experiences are powerful vehicles for first-year college students to learn the perspectives and skills necessary to function interdependently in a rapidly changing, increasingly complicated world. The authors develop this thesis through an in-depth case study of efforts to provide such learning…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Skill Development, Case Studies, Multicultural Education
