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Rebecca Kudrna; Suzanne Tiemann; Michael Swoboda; Timothy Hanrahan – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024
University First Year Seminar (FYS) programs are diverse in their content and pedagogy. Yet all seek to assist first-year students in the difficult college transition. The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate if grouping similar academic majors into the existing First Year Seminar (FYS) courses would improve social connectedness, use of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, First Year Seminars, School Orientation, College Freshmen
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Tami B. Radohl; Jordan O. Shockley; Kathryn L. Brown; Vanessa E. Groves; Regina Montoya – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024
Homelessness among at-risk transitional age youth is an increasingly growing crisis impacting college-aged students across the United States. Thankfully, along with interest in their local community's success, universities have the necessary resources that may offer a unique solution to this crisis. This study describes the pilot of a…
Descriptors: Homeless People, College Housing, Access to Education, Program Effectiveness
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Mary Stairs Vaughn; Amy Schmisseur; Christie Kleinmann; Jason Stahl – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024
Research shows that students benefit from outside-of-class interaction with instructors (Guerrero & Rod, 2013; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005) yet rarely take advantage of visiting faculty during office hours (Abdul-Wahab et al., 2019; Bippus et al., 2003; Griffin et al., 2014). We interviewed 39 students in six focus groups to learn more…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Attitudes, Barriers
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Stacy D. Yeager-Okosi; Aisha I. Hall; Nana Gyan Quaicoe – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2024
Online teaching requires faculty development and support to effectively meet the needs of students. Universities should widely recognize that having self-assured and competent online adjunct instructors greatly influences professional sustainability, learning outcomes, and student achievement. The objective of this descriptive study was to gain…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Online Courses
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Lynn Hanrahan; Timothy Hanrahan; James Concannon – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of students on the importance of developmental relationships related to teacher satisfaction and retention. It involved the use of a 20-question survey that was focused on perceptions of on-ground undergraduate students on components of The Developmental Relationship Framework from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Liberal Arts, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment
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Keonya Booker – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
The research on mentorship in the professoriate is extensive and substantial. New faculty benefit from having sustained and focused interactions with a more knowledgeable other who is able to shepherd them through the induction phase of their academic career. Professional support, collaboration, and sponsorship have always been critical, but this…
Descriptors: Mentors, Pandemics, COVID-19, College Faculty
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Ekaterina Arshavskaya; Nefi Reyes de la Paz – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
Benefits of teachers' autoethnographies are well-documented in current research. This study adds to the research literature by directly analyzing how the insights gained through writing autoethnographic essays may impact second language (L2) teachers' classrooms. To collect the data, the study incorporated autoethnographic essays into a graduate…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Masters Programs, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
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Eric J. Robbins; James F. Fairbank – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
Asynchronous online discussion (AOD) can provide an interactive educational experience through formation of learning communities that enable students to develop professional knowledge and critical thinking skills as they engage with colleagues and instructors. We find significant differences between undergraduate and graduate student perceptions…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Maureen Snow Andrade; Jonathan H. Westover; Letty Workman – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
Schools of business aim to help students develop employer-valued skills, which include communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and application of learning. This can be achieved through team assignments and community-based learning. Such approaches help students apply the concepts they are learning, collaborate with others, develop managerial…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, Teamwork, Contracts
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John A. Huss – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
Generation Z students are described as being our first "digital natives" who have grown up typing with their thumbs on smartphones and tuning out school-based interactions that do not capture their short attention spans. As Gen Z students occupy more post-secondary rosters for web based courses, they seek instructional models that…
Descriptors: College Students, Generational Differences, Online Courses, Teaching Methods
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Suk Meng Goh – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
Superhero themes have been increasingly used in the teaching of a range of topics including business, humanities and science in recent years. Typically, characters from existing popular media are adopted for the teaching activities. On the other hand, customised characters that are developed from scratch allow the educator to have more control of…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Fantasy, Fiction, Teaching Methods
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Dawn Apgar; Lori Zerrusen – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2023
As life expectancy in the United States continues to increase, there is a need to enhance interest and competency in working with older adults. There have been efforts to do so in recent years, but research indicates that there are barriers, such as lack of awareness and negative perceptions of aging. This qualitative study examines the…
Descriptors: Educational Certificates, Barriers, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals)
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Dieckman, Andrea; Nelson, Eric; Luechtefeld, Ray; Giles, Garrett – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2022
Students, especially those from recent generations, typically encounter difficulties providing and receiving feedback. Hence approaches to teach students feedback skills are valuable. This article explores perspectives related to learning feedback by (a) examining the process of feedback, (b) showing how Action Learning as a pedagogical component…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experiential Learning, Educational Games, Age Groups
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King, Steve; McClatchey, Irene Searles; Channer, Bianca – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2022
Experiential learning in the field is central to the training of many helping professionals, and field education is the signature pedagogy for social work. Service-learning offers another opportunity for graduate students in the helping professions to get hands on training. Volunteering would also offer a hands-on learning experience but appears…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Camps, Volunteers, Student Attitudes
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Iluzada, Christina; Talbert, Tony L. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2022
This multiple descriptive case study explores how university students responded to their Business Communications course's transitioning to an emergency remote course during the spring semester of 2020. Thirty-nine students completed an end-of-semester questionnaire that recorded their impressions of learning and course satisfaction. Nine of those…
Descriptors: College Students, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Emergency Programs
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