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The role of the classroom in college student persistence

Author: John M Braxton
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2008
Series: New directions for teaching and learning, no. 115.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database: WorldCat
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This issue brings into sharp focus the complex role college and university faculty play in shaping the persistence and departure decisions of undergraduate students.

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Title: The role of the classroom in college student persistence /
Database Name: WorldCat
All Authors / Contributors: John M Braxton
ISBN: 9780470422168 (pbk.); 0470422165 (pbk.)
ISSN: 0271-0633 ;
Notes: "Fall 2008."
Bibliography: Contains bibliographic references and index.
Description: 118 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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 -- The 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.
Responsibility: John M. Braxton, editor.
Genre/Form: Electronic books -- Education.
Electronic books -- Higher Education.
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Role of the classroom in college student persistence. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2008 (OCoLC)760844579
Year: 2008
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass,
Class Descriptors: LC Class No.: LC148.2; Dewey No.: 378.1619
Series: New directions for teaching and learning; Number: no. 115; ISSN: 0271-0633 ;; Variation: New directions for teaching and learning ; no. 115.
OCLC No.: 233935990
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