Browsing by Subject "Student learning"

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    Civic Learning: A Sine Qua Non of Service Learning
    (Frontiers Media, 2021) Bringle, Robert G.; Clayton, Patti H.; Psychology, School of Science
    Civic learning is an essential element of service learning, but one that is often underdeveloped in practice. This article surveys various conceptualizations of civic learning that are in use in higher education around the world, discusses approaches to designing service learning courses to generate civic learning outcomes, and proposes two methods for assessing student attainment of them. The intent is to build instructors’ capacities to cultivate the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and behaviors that lie at the very heart of civic learning and of public life in the ever-more complex and interconnected 21st century.
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    Workshop: Project-Enhanced Learning in Engineering Science Education
    (2012) Nalim, M. Razi; Rajagopal, Manikanada; Helfenbein, Robert
    Early drop out and poor retention rates are a major challenge to engineering education, which in many institutions have prompted a focus on improved first-year experiences. Retention and contributing learning challenges persists into the middle years, particularly when students confront the first engineering science courses in their major field. Students often perceive these courses as too abstract, intended to weed them out, and not meaningfully connected to their professional aspirations. A proven approach to improve student learning, self-efficacy, motivation, and retention is the use of active learning, including problems and projects. Despite evidence of the benefits of active learning, engineering schools and faculty members have inadequate incentives to experiment with non-traditional approaches.