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"Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
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Author
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Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
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Description
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In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...
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A comparison of web-based and paper-based course evaluations at UNC Charlotte
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Hartshorne, Richard, Algozzine, Bob, McAlpin, Valorie
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Education, Higher
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Description
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Based on extant research, UNC Charlotte should consider the adoption of a university-wide, web-based course evaluation system for both formative and summative evaluations: Ratings Similarity: Web and paper results show students very favorable towa...
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Alternative grading strategies for an anti-Black institution of higher learning
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Author
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Stevens, Lawrence, Paquette, Elisabeth
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Grading and marking (Students), Education, Higher, Anti-racism
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Description
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Racist grading practices and policies in higher education have existed to perpetuate white supremacy and privilege while at a disservice to minority students. Minority students in higher education often face discrimination for being of a lower soc...
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Assessing the impact of curriculum on open and transparent research practices
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Author
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Markant, Doug, Galati, Alexia
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Date Created
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2022, 2022, 2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Open scholarship, Education, Higher
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Description
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Over the past decade, in response to the so-called “replication crisis”, psychology researchers have begun adopting practices that promote openness and transparency. Currently, these emerging best practices are not consistently represented in the ...
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Building blocks of infusion inclusion study guide
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Author
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Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D.
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Curriculum planning, Diversity in higher education, Education, Higher
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Description
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The Building Blocks of Infusion Inclusion Study Guide is a tool for course development in order to provide faculty, instructors, and professors in higher education a way to improve their curriculum by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI...
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Title
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Changing “I” : autoethnography and the reflexive self
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Author
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Merriweather, Lisa
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Subjects--Topical
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Mentoring in education, Education, Higher
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Description
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So much to learn, how will I ever learn it all? As a newly appointed assistant professor, this was a popular refrain. Writing a course syllabus, managing time in the classroom space, acquiring new vocabulary to include words such as faculty govern...
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Crisis for the university student : changing student housing and growing cost burden
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Author
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Wood, Connor, Schuch, Johanna Claire
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Subjects--Topical
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Student housing, Housing--Costs, Education, Higher
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Description
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College cost burden and student debt are among the most pressing discussions in contemporary US society. This conversation has largely been focused on changes in tuition and fees. While this is important, over 60% of the college cost at four-year ...
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Early engagement and academic outcomes of first-year students at UNC Charlotte
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Author
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Dika, Sandra, D'Amico, Mark, Elling, Theodore W., Algozzine, Bob
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Subjects--Topical
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College freshmen, Education, Higher
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Description
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Most colleges and universities are interested in increasing student success and implementing strategies to do so (Tinto, 1999). In recent years, this focus and related efforts have also translated to the higher education policy environment (see, e...
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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF FIRST-TIME LEADERS THROUGH COLLEGIATE ADVENTURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
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Author
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Coffey, Kristin
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Psychology, Industrial
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Description
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This study examined the relation between level of experience as a collegiate adventure education student leader and leadership skills necessary for effective first-time managers in the workplace. One-hundred and thirty-three college students betwe...
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Sociomaterial texts, spaces and devices : Questioning ‘digital dualism’ in library and study practices
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Author
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Lanclos, Donna M., 1970-, Gourlay, Lesley, Oliver, Martin, 1973-
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Libraries
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Description
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Work on students' study practices posits the digital and material as separate domains, with the ‘digital’ assumed to be disembodied, decontextualised and free-floating, and spaces in the material campus positioned as prototypically ‘traditional’ a...
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To Be Young, Black, and Resilient: Navigating a Predominantly White University
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Author
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Strickland, Jasmine
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Higher, Ethnology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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The current study examines how Black undergraduate students at a predominantly White university respond to the racism they encounter on campus. Specifically, the case study seeks to identify (a) the response strategies that Black undergraduate stu...
