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Mariz, George – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Research in honors has become a priority for the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), and the phrase presents the honors community with an interesting ambiguity about the appropriate focus for future studies. Potential topics might include the progress of honors students in comparison to their non-honors cohorts; the criteria for selecting…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Honors Curriculum, Research Needs, Research Methodology
Kampfe, Jessica A.; Chasek, Christine L.; Falconer, John – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Honors programs at colleges and universities provide academic and developmental opportunities for high-ability students. Learning communities, defined as a group of students who live together, are connected through membership in a common organization, and take classes together, are often a component of honors programs. Most research on learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Cognard-Black, Andrew J.; Savage, Hallie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
When a well-developed honors curriculum is paired with co-curricular opportunities, it serves to distinguish an institution's honors education. Together, these curricular and co-curricular experiences are described as best practices in the National Collegiate Honors Council's (NCHC's) "Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Institutional Characteristics, Best Practices, Guidelines
Wood-Nartker, Jeanneane; Hinck, Shelly; Hullender, Ren – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Assessment and evaluation practices within honors programs have attracted considerable attention within the honors academic community, e.g., the spring/summer 2006 volume of the "Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council." Calls for carefully created and constructed assessment activities within honors programs have met with mixed…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Skill Development
Guzy, Annmarie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
This bibliography is intended to offer future honors composition researchers a comprehensive list of honors composition publications and disciplinary presentations to date. Guzy's intent was to provide a starting place for future researchers to begin their literature reviews and to decide which research agenda to pursue. Guzy focused on…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Educational Research, Writing (Composition), Publications
Vander Zee, Anton; Folds-Bennett, Trisha; Meyer-Bernstein, Elizabeth; Reardon, Brendan – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
The transition into college remains one of the most formative and complex phases in an individual's life. Institutions of higher learning have responded to the challenges facing first-year students in myriad ways, most often by offering summer orientation programs, dynamic living-learning environments, tailored academic and psychological support…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Honors Curriculum, School Orientation
Caropreso, Edward J.; Haggerty, Mark; Ladenheim, Melissa – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Learning to write well is a significant outcome of higher education, as confirmed and illustrated in the Written Communication VALUE Rubric of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Scholars agree that writing and thinking are linked. Thinking about this relationship between writing and thinking in the context of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Honors Curriculum, Program Effectiveness
Dailey, Rocky – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
To be a collegiate honors student implies a higher level of academic achievement than other students as well as the more challenging academic experience that comes with smaller class sizes. Collegiate honors teachers have a distinction of their own. Being an honors teacher implies a high level of teaching achievement, and it requires special…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Faculty, Teacher Recruitment, Professional Identity
Dinan, Susan E. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
In 2014, Jonathan Zimmerman published an op-ed in the "Christian Science Monitor" in which he wrote, "The last time I checked, [men] held most of the important positions of power and influence in American society. And yet, college admissions offices lower the standard for young men--effectively raising it for women--simply to make…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Gender Differences, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
Scott, Richard I.; Smith, Patricia J. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
As the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) celebrates its fiftieth year, the organization has an excellent opportunity to reflect on how honors education has spread during its history. Tracking growth in the number of institutions delivering honors education outside of its membership has not been a priority for NCHC or for researchers in…
Descriptors: Demography, Honors Curriculum, Institutional Characteristics, Diversity (Institutional)
Harlan-Haughey, Sarah; Cunningham, Taylor; Lees, Katherine; Estrup, Andrew – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Blogging is an excellent way to implement students bringing their further insights to their classmates following an exciting class discussion, continuing an exchange of ideas and providing students with another tool to improve their writing skills. Student class blogging offers many benefits--for student and instructor alike--compared to assigning…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Diaries
Banks, H. Kay – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
An honors senior thesis introduces students into a world of scholarship and professional activity in a way that no single course, either semester- or year-long, can do (Anderson, Lyons, and Weiner). Many honors educators consider honors thesis work to be the defining honors experience. For graduate schools, employers, and the students themselves,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Theses, Research Needs, Educational Research
Jones, Beata M. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
In this article, Beata Jones attempts to organize the honors discipline into a comprehensive framework that can guide explorations and shed light on specific attributes of honors entities in the framework of their interrelationships. The framework offers an approach to deal with the inherent fragmentation of the field, which can lead to…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Students, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
Walsh, Margaret – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
College affordability is weighing heavily this year on the minds of students, parents, faculty, and the U.S. electorate. Intent on saving money on college tuition as well as impressing college admissions committees, high-achieving students frequently start college-level work early through Advanced Placement courses. However, these courses do not…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Honors Curriculum, Relevance (Education), Student Motivation
Engel, Steven – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
A recent study of honors curricula across the nation indicates that 75.6% of honors programs and colleges at four-year institutions have thesis or capstone requirements (Savage and Cognard-Black). In addition to institutions with thesis requirements, many more also have the option for students to complete theses. For example, an earlier study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Honors Curriculum, Theses, Models