2 redesigning america's community colleges tion efforts such as the US Department of
Education's College Navigator website, which allows students and parents to compare …

This study estimates the effects of a deep approaches to learning scale and its subscales on
measures of students' critical thinking, need for cognition, and positive attitudes toward …

Assessing gains in learning has received increased attention as one dimension of
institutional accountability both in the USA (Arum and Roksa, Academically adrift: Limited …

In this study the authors analyze longitudinal student survey data from the 17-institution
Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) to determine the extent that the …

This chapter will examine characteristics of first‐year experience programs in community
colleges, with specific attention to the extant research about their effectiveness, the ways in …

The multiple characteristics of students motivate universities to provide a learning
environment that integrates teaching and learning in one and to strengthen students' …

This article reports on research that aims to enhance self-directed learning by introducing
cooperative learning strategies. The two-fold aim of this research was firstly to determine …

Deep learning increases attention especially in studying among university students because
studying in higher education focuses on knowledge synthesis, so they need to study deeply …

Background/Context US institutions of higher education have been criticized for providing
limited learning gains and lacking rigor. Most understandings of academic rigor in higher …

A new conceptual model of student retention was developed and evaluated for first-year
retention and for second-year retention of students at an urban, mid-western commuter …