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Access without Support is not Opportunity
Centre for the Study of StudentsUniversity of Toronto
October 24, 2007
Vincent TintoSyracuse University
(315) [email protected]
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Overview
• Conditions that promote student success
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Overview
• Conditions that promote student success
• Learning communities for academically under-prepared students
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From Teaching to Learning
Changing the way we think about promoting student success.
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Conditions for Student Success
Expectations• Clear, consistent, and accurate advising• High expectations
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Conditions for Student Success
ExpectationsSupport• Academic Support • Social Support• Financial Support
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Conditions for Student Success
ExpectationsSupportFeedback• Entry assessment and placement• Monitoring and early warning• Classroom assessment of learning
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Conditions for Student Success
ExpectationsSupportFeedbackInvolvement• Contact with students, faculty, and staff• Active involvement in learning with others
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Students will get more involved in learning, spend more time learning, and in turn learnmore when they are placed in supportive educational settings in which they obtainfrequent feedback about their learning andwhich require them to share learning with
others.
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Promoting Students Success:Some Possibilities
Cooperative/Collaborative Learning Problem-Based LearningLearning CommunitiesSupplemental Instruction/Study GroupsClassroom AssessmentService Learning
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Learning Communities:
Students enroll in classes together
Central theme or problem which organizes the curriculum
Students asked to build academic and social connections
Team designed and sometimes team taught
Use of cooperative or problem-based learning
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Linked Courses-LaGuardia Community College
Speech Communication
ESL Developmental English
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Cluster Learning Communities-DeAnza College
DevelopmentalEnglish
Study Skills
DevelopmentalDevelopmentalReadingReading
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Mainstream Learning Communities -California State University-East Bay
U.S. History
General StudiesSeminar
Ancient World- Fall
DevelopmentalEnglish 100
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Coordinated Studies Programs-Seattle Central Community College
The Presentation of Racein America
Communications
Writing 100
U.S. History
Faculty team
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Understanding the Impact of Learning Communities on Student Success
Hearing the voices of students
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Research Findings
Developing supportive peer groups
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“In the cluster we knew each other, we were friends, we discussed everything from all the classes. We knew things very, very well because we discussed it all so much. We had discussions about everything … it was like a raft running the rapids of my life.”
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Research Findings
Developing supportive peer groupsStudying together: Becoming involvedin learning
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“You know, the more I talk to other peopleabout our class stuff, the homework, the tests,the more I’m actually learning... and the more I learn not only about other people, but also about the subject because my brain is getting more, because I’m getting more involved withthe other students in the class. I’m getting more involved with the class even after class.”
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Research Findings
Developing supportive peer groupsStudying together: Becoming involved in learningInvolvement, learning, and persistence
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Activity Score LC Comparison
Course 3.05* 2.46Library 2.15* 1.94Faculty 2.25* 1.99Students 3.12* 2.85Writing 2.81* 2.65Gain 2.68* 2.46
* indicates significant difference between groups at .05 level.
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Outcomes LC Comparison
Pass Rates . .
Continuation . . 57.3* 41.2*
76.6 55.9
** estimated from several studiesestimated from several studies
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Research Findings
Developing supportive peer groupsStudying together: Becoming involvedin learningInvolvement, learning, and persistenceLearning better together
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“I think more people should be educated in this form of education. I mean because it is good. We learn not only how to interact with ourselves, but with other people of different races, different sizes, different colors, different everything.I mean it justmakes it better...not only do you learn more, you learn better.”
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Research Findings
Developing supportive peer groupsStudying together: Becoming involved in learningInvolvement, learning, and persistenceLearning better togetherFinding validation as a learner
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“So you are constantly having to think, re-think,and even re-re-think what’s going on in light ofall the feedback you’re getting from all these different points of view. . . you realize youknow something, like you’re not dumb.”
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“It has benefited me because I have gotten to know people. I am not alone anymore … It has helped me feel more comfortable, more confident. The more confident I feel, the better I do.”
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“It has benefited me because I have gotten to know people. I am not alone anymore … It has helped me feel more comfortable, more confident. The more confident I feel, the better I do.”
“I think I have gotten smarter since I have been here. I can feel it.”
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Review:
Student success does not arise by chance.
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Review:
Student success does not arise by chance.
Successful programs hold high expectations,provide support and feedback, and activelyinvolve their students in learning with others.
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Review:
Student success does not arise by chance.
Successful programs hold high expectations,provide support and feedback, and activelyinvolve their students in learning with others.
Successful programs involve the collaborative efforts of faculty and staff across the campus.
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Resources: Successful Programs
L. Muraskin and J. Lee, Raising the Graduation Ratesof Low-Income College Students. (Washington D.C., The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2004)
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Resources:First Year Programs
The Policy Center for the First Year of Collegewww.firstyear.org
Foundations of Excellence in the First Year of Collegewww.fyfoundations.org
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Resources: Cooperative Learning
Barbara Millis & Philip Cottell, 1998. Cooperative Learning for Higher Education Faculty(Phoenix: Oryx Press).
Barkley, E, K.P. Cross, and C. Howell-Major. 2004. Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).
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Resources: Problem-Based Learning
University of Delaware: Institute for Problem-Based Learning (http://www.udel.edu/pbl)
Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl)
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Resources: Supplemental Instruction
Center for Supplemental InstructionUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City
www.umkc.edu/centers/cad/si
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Resources: Learning Communities
The Learning Community Commons
The Washington Center for Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu
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The Learning Community ListservEvergreen State College
Gillies Malnarich and Emily Lardner �Co-Directors, The Washington Center
Resources: Learning Communities
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Resources: Living Learning Communities
The Residential Learning Community International Clearinghouse
Bowling Green State University
http://pcc.bgsu.edu/ricch/index.php
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Basic Skills Learning Communities
CC of Baltimore County California State Univ-HaywardCerritos College California State Univ-Los AngelesDeAnza College University of Texas-El PasoGrossmont College Temple UniversityHolyoke CC Tennessee State UniversityLaGuardia CCSan Jose City CCSandhills CCSanta Fe CCSeattle Central CCShoreline CC Pathways to College SuccessSpokane Falls CC http://pathways.syr.edu
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Resources: Classroom Assessment
Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross, 1993. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (2nd Edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass)
Huba, M. and J. Freed. 1999. Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting Focus from Teaching to Learning. (New York: Allyn & Bacon).