Schedule: 2007-2008
TFD meets in 111 Wimberly on alternate Tuesdays, from 4:00 - 5:30 PM. Feel free to choose sessions to attend if you cannot attend every one.
We will follow up on two of Equity Scorecard's findings this year (grades and retention). See all the reports here: http://www.uwlax.edu/campusclimate/htm/EquityScorecard.htm
Fall 2007 Jump to Spring
Sept. 4
Let's begin with the relevant Equity Scorecard reports -- most of you have seen or heard about them already: http://www.uwlax.edu/campusclimate/pdf/EqSRetention.pdf and http://www.uwlax.edu/campusclimate/pdf/EqSExcellence.pdf
Sept. 18
This is a study of the strategies implemented by historically white institutions that have attained high retention rates: http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/40EEF8D0-1257-48C2-8622-10AEB8988727/0/Choosing_to_improve.pdf Let's add this good summary of the research questions and findings: Deborah Faye Carter, "Key Issues in the Persistence of Underrepresented Minorities," New Directions in Institutional Research (Summer, 2006). Deb will email.
Oct. 2
Can we learn from HBCUs and tribal colleges?
How do they address retention issues? Jamie P. Merisotis and
Kirstin McCarthy, "Retention and student success at
minority-serving institutions." New Directions for
Institutional Research (Spring 2005): 45-58.
http://libweb.uwlax.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16620869&site=ehost-live
Oct. 16
Our colleagues from student affairs will join us today. To some extent, retention and success issues are connected. The final report on a major effort funded by the James Irvine Foundation offers some insights. Let's read the Executive Summary, and the "Success" section in the full report. http://www.irvine.org/publications/by_topic/education.shtml#ed10
Oct. 30
Some critics of higher education have
suggested that pedagogies that work for white students do not
work for students of color. Little research
comparing college students' success by teaching method exists,
let alone disaggregated by race. Let's try this one:
Cherry A. McGee Banks and
James A. Banks, "Equity
Pedagogy: An Essential Component of Multicultural Education: Theory into Practice,"
Culturally Relevant Teaching
34: 3 (Summer, 1995): 152-158
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-5841%28199522%2934%3A3%3C152%3AEPAECO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
Nov. 13
Several studies have indicated that all students benefit from a diverse student body. This study goes into depth on that finding: Mitchell J. Chang, Alexander W. Astin, and Dongbin Kim, "Cross-Racial Interaction Among Undergraduates: Some Consequences, Causes, and Patterns." Research in Higher Education 45, no. 5 (August 2004): 529-553. http://libweb.uwlax.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=13497082&site=ehost-live
Nov. 27
What have we learned? What do we still need to know?
Dec. 11
What have we learned? What do we still need to know?
Feb. 5
Feb. 19 The math studies
Here's the math study we've been dancing around: Uri
Treisman , "Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the
Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College," The
College Mathematics Journal 23: 5 (Nov., 1992): 362-372
Stable URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0746-8342%28199211%2923%3A5%3C362%3ASSSCAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
Mar. 4 The good and the bad
Here are two studies of collaboration in social science courses. Let's see what worked and what didn't, and why:
Dawn Vreven and Susan McFadden, "An Empirical Assessment of Cooperative Groups in Large, Time-compressed, Introductory Courses," Innovative Higher Education 32: 2 (2007), 85-92. From Deb -- ordered through ILLIAD.
Michael Delucchi, "Assessing the impact of group projects on examination performance in social statistics," Teaching in Higher Education, 12: 4(Aug 2007). 447-460. Also from Deb, same reason.
Mar. 18 No meeting
Spring Break
Apr. 1 More good and bad
When Capable Students Fail: The Academic Sustainability Gap. Check out this website: http://www.cfkeep.org/html/stitch.php?s=32003857970241&id=12373947922489
Here's a different approach to "remedial" education: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/29/california
Jack Tessier, "Small-Group Peer Teaching in an Introductory Biology Classroom," Journal of College Science Teaching, 36:4 (Jan/Feb 2007), 64-69. http://ejournals.ebsco.com/RemoteSiteWithInstructions.asp?JournalID=111384&RemoteURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ensta%2Eorg%2Fmain%2Fnews%2Fstories%2Fjournal%5Farchive%5Fdate%2Ephp%3Fcategory%5FID%3D89 Select volume 36:4. Click on the title of the essay (it's the second one). The login info will appear at the top of the browser window.
Diane Gillespie, Sally Rosamond, and Elizabeth Thomas, "Grouped Out? Undergraduates' Default Strategies for Participating in Multiple Small Groups," JGE: the Journal of General Education 55: 2 (2006), 81-102. Project Muse. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_general_education/v055/55.2gillespie.pdf
Apr. 15 The institutional context
Adrianna Kezar, "Redesigning For Collaboration in Learning Initiatives: An Examination of Four Highly Collaborative Campuses," The Journal of Higher Education 77:5 (Sept/Oct 2006), 804-838. Project Muse. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_higher_education/v077/77.5kezar.pdf
Susan Talburt and Deron Boyles, "Reconsidering Learning Communities: Expanding the Discourse by Challenging the Discourse," The Journal of General Education 54.3 (2005) 209-236. Project Muse. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_general_education/v054/54.3talburt.html
Apr. 29
What have we learned? Do we want to try a pilot?
To ask about this website: Deb Hoskins