To assess the current status of first year programs, two surveys of first year programs in
engineering were circulated through the ASEE Freshman Programs Division (FPD) listserv …

What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North
American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, 1994) that genre is social action …

Nine first-year agricultural engineering students enrolled at a large, public, land grant
university, who participated in a learning community which featured linked English and …

For the past 25 years, the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa
State University has emphasised undergraduate student success and retention. To begin …

Learning communities are not new; in fact, there is a large body of literature on learning
communities. Based on the number of citations on learning communities from different fields …

In 1998, the Agricultural Engineering programme at Iowa State University turned to the
pedagogical innovation termedlearning communities' in an effort to enhance student …

In 1998, our department turned to the pedagogical innovation termed “learning
communities” in an effort to enhance student retention and to bring coherence and meaning …

This study brings together research on learning communities and student self-efficacy,
confidence, outcome expectations, and commitment. Participation in learning communities …

What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North
American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, 1994) that genre is social action …