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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Located in primarily low-income areas and minority communities, this site has been the focus of many student projects to address health equity and environmental justice. Students revised the EPA letter that is mailed to residents explaining the potential soil contamination and the option to test their soil. 2017, October 20).

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

The Scholarly Teacher

My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content. Not surprising, the students in my graduate-level course were wrestling with understanding the content of this complex student development theory. 2019; Smith, 2013). 2001; Lang, 2021; Thomas, 2009).The Wiley & Sons.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

However, MSIs also report lower-than-national-average graduation and retention rates, reflecting continued systemic challenges (both socioeconomic and political) shaping underrepresented students’ experiences of higher education (Flores & Park, 2013). Clearly, there’s real need to better serve underserved student communities.

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Developing graduate attributes in a landscape of practices

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Reaching such an understanding involves identifying the factors which enable, but also constrain, students’ development of these attributes. One of the previous criticisms of graduate attributes has been their conceptualisation as generic skills rather than recognising them as being highly contextualised and situated (Jones, 2013 ).

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success.

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Adaptive Comparative Judgment and the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Online Learning

ACJ demonstrates much greater reliability in large-volume assessment when using a distributed team of assessors and also enables high numbers of students to efficiently receive valuable feedback from several assessors, whether used for staff assessing students or student peer assessment.

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Twenty years of peer support: The fellowship and solidarity of community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Bean and Metzner (1985, p488) noted that for students with fewer interactions with staff and students the social integration element can almost be replaced by an ‘external environment’ set of variables. For example, these could be hours of employment, outside encouragement, or family responsibilities (Davidson et al, 2013).