The Relationship Between Studentsâ•Ž Interactions With Student Affairs Professionals and Cognitive Outcomes in the First Year of College

Building Momentum in Student Engagement: Alternative Breaks and Studentsâ•Ž Social Justice and Diversity Orientation

Impact of Service-Learning and Social Justice Education on College Studentsâ•Ž Cognitive Development

This study used the Measure of Epistemology Reflection to explore the impact of service-learning and social justice education on college students’ cognitive development. Six service-learning courses taught with or without a social justice emphasis were studied. Results showed that service-learning courses in general had a positive impact on students’ cognitive development, while service-learnin...

Inferring unobservable learning variables from studentsâ•Ž help seeking behavior

Results of an evaluation of students’ attitudes and their relationship to student behaviors within a tutoring system are presented. Starting from a correlation analysis that integrates survey-collected student attitudes, learning variables, and behaviors while using the tutor, we constructed a Bayesian Network that infers attitudes and perceptions towards help and the tutoring system.

The Relationship between Internal Forms of Engagement (Cognitive-Affective) and Academic Success across Years of Study

Literature has already confirmed that student engagement as an external or multidimensional construct may contribute to the academic success of college students. However, very few studies have tried to examine the contributions the more "internal forms of engagement" (cognitive and affective) might make in this regard, and how the engagement patterns may change over the academic years. To fill ...

The Role of Precollege Data in Assessing and Understanding Student Engagement in College

Students do not enter college tabula rasa. They come with a variety of high school academic experiences, exposure to college information, and family socioeconomic and educational influences, all of which help shape expectations and attitudes of what it is like to be an enrolled college student. Research studies show that high school experiences, engagement, and academic achievement, as well as ...