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Libraries & Student Success, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Libraries & Student Success, Melissa Bowles-Terry
Library Faculty Presentations
What makes a difference in student success? The framing questions for this presentation are:
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What makes students stay in college and finish a degree? What prevents them from finishing?
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What can librarians and faculty do to increase students' chances of succeeding at learning and at earning a degree?
This presentation will address high impact practices identified by George Kuh and adopted by the AAC&U, and give some examples of how libraries can support those high impact practices. It will also address student engagement, as measured by tools like the National Survey of Student Engagement or NSSE, and how libraries can …
Transforming Education For Next Generation Learners, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Transforming Education For Next Generation Learners, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
Students improve much less than they should in: writing, critical thinking, quantitative skills, and moral reasoning…
Large majorities of college seniors do not feel that they have made substantial progress in: ...learning what they need to know to become active and informed citizens…
Overall, despite their vastly increased resources, more powerful technology, and hundreds of new courses, colleges cannot be confident that students are learning more than they did fifty years ago…