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Writing To Learn In A Mutt Course: How Writing Functions In A Social Justice Living Learning Program Seminar, Jennifer K. Reid
Writing To Learn In A Mutt Course: How Writing Functions In A Social Justice Living Learning Program Seminar, Jennifer K. Reid
Dissertations (1934 -)
Learning communities, first-year seminars/experiences, writing intensive courses, and diversity/global learning programs are among the high-impact practices (HIP) shown to influence college student learning, retention, and overall experience (Kuh, 2008). Colleges and universities are creating programs and courses that incorporate these and other HIPs. Some of these courses do not fit neatly into particular disciplinary or interdisciplinary categories. The current research refers to such contexts as “mutt courses.”Writing is often used to facilitate learning in mutt courses, yet virtually everything that is known about how writing promotes learning comes from research on writing in traditional disciplinary settings (e.g. history, engineering, …
The Relationship Between Teacher Retention And Original Career Goals, Teacher Efficacy And Empathy: A Study Of Teach For America Alumni, Tyra Norbeck Hildebrand
The Relationship Between Teacher Retention And Original Career Goals, Teacher Efficacy And Empathy: A Study Of Teach For America Alumni, Tyra Norbeck Hildebrand
Dissertations (1934 -)
Retention of urban teachers is important in order for students attending high-poverty schools to achieve significant academic and social gains (Boyd et al., 2008). This quantitative study sought to determine if a relationship existed between teacher retention and original career goals, teachers’ sense of self-efficacy, and self-reported level of empathy. Seven cohorts of Teach for America (TFA) alumni who completed their program between 2011-2017 in the same urban region were surveyed to learn about the TFA experience and specific career decisions after their two-year program ended. Lent, Brown and Hackett’s (2002) Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) was utilized as the …