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Brett M. Condon; Junyang Xian; Donna Murasko; Daniel King; Jennifer S. Stanford – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
STEM courses can be difficult for students adjusting to college. Effectively and equitably identifying students who could benefit from academic support is challenging, especially with changing strategies around use of standardized test scores. Alternative tools to identify those in need of academic support interventions are needed. The authors…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Scientific Attitudes, Success
Alicia H. Sitren – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Experiential learning is an important component of a criminal justice education. To date, the use of virtual technologies as a form of experiential learning has not been tested. To address this gap, a virtual tour detailing mental illness occurring in prison was provided to undergraduate students in five criminal justice courses taught in two U.S.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Experiential Learning, Criminology, Correctional Rehabilitation
Katrine K. Wong – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Often discussed as a support system or strategy linked with academic, social, and emotional benefits for its participants, mentorship is conducted in increasingly more diverse forms, and the discussion thereof has gained much traction in multiple domains. In China, mentoring has received increasingly more attention in recent years. Holistic,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Residential Institutions
Erin E. C. Henze; Rachel L. Lee – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Quizzes are a widely used method for enhancing student performance in college-level courses. This study examined the effects of weekly quizzes for credit versus weekly quizzes for no credit on the performance of undergraduate students in two sections of an Introductory Psychology course. Results suggest that giving quizzes for credit led to better…
Descriptors: Testing, Student Evaluation, College Credits, Academic Achievement
Steven D. Seidel; Stephanie R. Rodriguez; Gina A. Hawkins – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
The three-minute thesis (3MT™), developed by the University of Queensland, is a tool that has been used to help graduate students articulate their research in a concise and engaging manner. This article describes processes for using a three-minute presentation (3MP) for classroom use to improve students' research literacy, critical-thinking, and…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Speech Skills, Student Research, Multiple Literacies
Eun Chong Yang; John Ni; Galina Shleykina – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study identifies and analyzes factors impacting students' perceptions of international instructors' teaching effectiveness at a U.S. public university. The researchers conceptualized teaching effectiveness as a combination of factors and applied structural equation modeling to analyze the effects on students' perceptions of effectiveness.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Student Relationship
David Besong Tataw – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study assessed perceived learning outcomes in a team-lecture hybrid (TLH) instructional design in six public affairs and health administration courses implemented in 2011 and 2012. A cross sectional and prospective survey design was implemented using descriptive statistics, regression analysis and qualitative analysis. Results show students…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Team Teaching
Dee Kinney; Karen M. Brown; Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study examines the relationship between college students' comfort with technology, time management, and learner-empowered competence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students (N = 364) enrolled in several college courses from spring 2019 through fall 2021 were recruited to participate. The study found that student comfort with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Time Management
Matt Moore; Judith Gray; Dusty Rademacher; Mastano Nambiro Woleson Dzimbiri; Payton Bennett – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study explored the impact of community service-learning (CSL) on the educational development of undergraduate social work students related to professional competencies. Undergraduate student participants (n = 155) completed a required volunteer CSL experience in social work practice courses during both their sophomore and junior years. The…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Student Volunteers, Social Work
Capotosto, Lauren; Carrasquillo, Rosa Elena; Vargas, Madeline – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The authors describe an instructional model of interdisciplinarity that aims to simultaneously develop undergraduate students' disciplinary knowledge and foster integrative skills. Two faculty members taught separate undergraduate courses in history and microbiology during which students came together at multiple points throughout the semester.…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, History Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kauffman, Kent D. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
Although the role of class participation in learning has been studied, there is less scholarship of teaching and learning research investigating the role of "incentives" in increasing engagement. The author describes his experience using multiple incentives to increase class-wide participation in an undergraduate legal course over…
Descriptors: Incentives, Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students
Richard G. Fuller; James R. Shock; Jason Draper; James A. Bernauer; Nadine C. Englert; E. Gregory Holdan; Shamika Zyhier – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The authors' research develops new understanding of undergraduate student engagement as a product of the flipped classroom learning model. Using a mixed-methods approach, 408 undergraduate students were surveyed and 18 interviewed across marketing, mathematics, nursing, and education majors. The motivating goals of this research were to identify…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Flipped Classroom, Learner Engagement, Nursing Students
Nicholas F. Bourke; Tami Shelley; Kellie A. Shumack; Timothy D. Lewis – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
Various pedagogical tools have been used by educators as they seek to build classroom communities that support learning. This mixed-methods case study examined the experiences of students who utilized a class Facebook group as a pedagogical tool in a face-to-face university undergraduate course. Students' perceptions were gathered via an online…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Social Media
Miller, Ryan A.; Howell, Cathy D.; Knight, Shawn – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2022
Increasingly, colleges and universities require at least one diversity course as part of general education programs. Students in required undergraduate diversity courses may challenge the credibility and authority of their instructors, particularly if these faculty members belong to minoritized social identity groups. The authors report on…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Credibility, Courses
Tolman, Anton O.; Johnson, Benjamin A. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2022
Undergraduate research is a high-impact practice (HIP), but it can be difficult to implement well. Faculty generally lack training for effectively mentoring students. A semi-autonomous faculty organization at Utah Valley University has maintained a faculty development program, the Mentoring Undergraduate Research Academy (MURA), and other…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mentors, Undergraduate Students, Student Research