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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Teaching Assistants in Active Learning Classrooms
Get PDFActive learning classrooms (ALCs) support teaching approaches that foster greater interaction and student engagement. However, a common challenge for instructors who teach in ALCs is to provide adequate assistance to students while implementing collaborative activities. This study examined the impact of teaching assistants in a large ALC. The results showed that incorporating teaching assistants increases students’ access to expert advice during small group activities; further, students view the teaching assistants as supportive of their success in the classroom. Therefore, availability of teaching assistants for instructors teaching in large ALCs must be considered along with classroom design and pedagogical approach
Recommendations for Communication Centers based on Student and Tutor Reflections: Insights about Students’ Reasons for Visiting, Session Outcomes, and Characteristics of the Tutoring Approach
Get PDFThis paper explores students’ experiences with communication centers and offers recommendations for new and expanding communication centers. We combine empirical research conducted on student reflection forms with our own insight as tutors, instructors, and directors and with existing literature to offer considerations for enhancing the services offered by communication centers. We propose communication centers consider the purposes for and outcomes of students’ visits, as well as what attributes of the tutoring and tutors students appreciate. Reasons for visiting the communication center included to receive help with content and structure, delivery, and sources and visual aids. Students reported getting assistance with drafting, delivery, supporting, and debriefing their presentations. The approaches to tutoring students appreciated included guided learning, clarification of course materials, and identification of both their strengths and weaknesses. Tutor characteristics appreciated by students were their prior teaching experience, good listening skills, creativity, and demeanor
The Americans with Disabilities Act and University Communication Centers
Get PDFUniversity communication centers are intended to help all students succeed, so compliance with the ADA is crucial. In order to check for compliance, communication center directors need to make sure the physical space, technology, and required training for employees are sufficient to meet the varying needs of students with disabilities. Because communication centers are smaller sites within a larger university, many of these compliance activities are the result of creative and/or experimental innovations to the space and services offered. This paper will demonstrate these moments of ingenuity in action and make suggestions for improvements to provide inspiration and advice to other communication centers
Bridging the Digital Divide: Telephone Tutoring at the Center
Get PDFAs many academic support centers transitioned from in-person to online from March 2020 onward, center professionals were looking for technology that would assist them to do the job right. In one Midwest, private, comprehensive university, students had already self-selected the phone as their answer to seeking writing assistance before the pandemic arrived. This essay will share findings from that study in the writing center as well as theorize why phone conversations make good sense in academic support centers. Writing centers and communication centers should adopt phone tutoring with online formats as a means to fully and justly connect with students, ensuring that diverse voices are heard and included and to enable all students to have an equitable experience amidst the digital divide
A computational investigation on how visitation affects the reproduction number in a dengue fever model
Get PDFDengue fever is transmitted by day-biting mosquitoes in tropical climates and is a major public threat for many countries. Ordinary differential equation models can be used to describe how infectious diseases move throughout populations, and predictions from these models may help in the development of effective treatment strategies. In order to investigate the spread of dengue fever in neighboring communities, a previously developed SIR/SI model of dengue transmission in neighboring communities in Sri Lanka was used to generate the basic reproduction number, R0. Parameters for time spent in neighboring communities were varied in order to investigate how time spent in communities of different sizes affects the reproduction number. Results suggest that movement of individuals among communities increases the reproduction number, especially if people are traveling to a population of greater size
The Effects of Classroom Seating Layouts on Participation and Assessment Performance in a Fourth Grade Classroom
Get PDFThe focus of this study was to look at how the seating layout effects participation and assessment performance overall as a class. The participants were 23 fourth grade students at a Louisiana elementary school. Three layouts were tested: small groups, horseshoe, and pairs. This study included three, two-week rounds of research. The collection process consisted of a series of mixed methods. According to three of the four data sources, the most significant finding from this study indicated that out of the three layouts, the horseshoe formation was the most effective arrangement for student learning in the fourth-grade classroom.
Community Engagement Beyond the Buzzwords: Student Internalizations of the Land-Grant Mission
Get PDFThe mission statements of land-grant institutions consistently describe their students as “engaged.” Beginning with an analysis of the mission statements of Midwestern land-grant institutions, this study discusses the results of a pre- and post-test of a subculture of undergraduate students enrolled in a course with a required community engagement component. The study assesses the dissonance or alignment of the ways mission statements describe students and the ways students describe themselves