Grant Recipients
Angela Rooke, Student Success Office
Nada Alshehabi, Student Success Office
Min Huang, Student Success Office
(Project timeline: November 2023 - August 2024)
Angela Rooke
Nada Alshehabi
Min Huang
Description
- This grant aims to pilot a for-credit academic skills course for students who are not enrolled in a Foundation Term.
- Since 2011, the Student Success Office has offered a for-credit academic skills course for students in the “Foundation Term”, a reduced load program for first- and second-year students who received a required-to-withdraw academic standing.
- In Winter 2024, the course will be piloted for students not enrolled in a Foundation Term, which allows us to assess the course learning outcomes without the additional variables presented by the Foundation Term.
- This project will deepen our understanding of this course’s learning outcomes by investigating how the course improves students’ academic self-concept and their metacognitive awareness
Questions Investigated
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Does this course improve students’ self-perceptions of their academic capabilities, as measured by Reynolds’ (1998) Academic Self-Concept Scale at the beginning and end of the course?
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What do students’ personal narratives (as described in their final paper) tell us about how the course content and assessments developed their self-regulated learning skills?