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Title:

The role of the classroom in college student persistence / John M. Braxton, editor.

Publisher:

Jossey-Bass/Wiley,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

118 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cm.

Subject:

College attendance--United States.
College students--United States.
College dropouts--United States.
College dropouts--Prevention.
Academic achievement--United States.

Other Authors:

Braxton, John M.

Notes:

"Fall 2008." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Curricular learning communities and unprepared students: how faculty can provide a foundation for success / Cathy McHugh Engstrom -- Promoting persistence and success of underrepresented students: lessons for teaching and learning / Jillian Kinzie, Robert Gonyea, Rick Shoup, George D. Kuh -- Closing the gate: part-time faculty instruction in gatekeeper courses and first-year persistence / M. Kevin Eagan Jr., Audrey J. Jaeger -- Effective instruction and college student persistence: some new evidence / Ernest T. Pascarella, Tricia A. Seifert, Elizabeth J. Whitt -- Role of active learning in college student persistence / John M. Braxton, Willis A. Jones, Amy S. Hirschy, Harold V. Hartley III -- Classroom practices at institutions with higher-than-expected persistence rates: what student engagement data tell us / Thomas F. Nelson Laird, Daniel Chen, George D. Kuh -- Toward a scholarship of practice centered on college student retention / John M. Braxton.

Series:

New directions for teaching and learning, 0271-0633 ; no. 115

ISBN:

0470422165 (pbk.)
9780470422168 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259421059

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)