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Leslie Camacho

Refining the Recipe for a Degree, Ingredient by Ingredient - Government - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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  • Leslie Camacho on 30 Nov 10
     
    "He finds the grading grid, which has recently captivated many of his faculty colleagues in the history department here at Utah State University, entirely too rigid."
Leslie Camacho

An Educator's Story - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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educator college teacher impact

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  • Leslie Camacho on 05 Jan 11
     
    "I met Dorothy Walker in my first year of Shades Valley High School, one of several schools in the Birmingham, Ala., area. Confident of little and terrified of much, I entered the honors section of her 10th-grade English class. Known to us simply as Mrs. Walker, she began by using the prescribed curriculum to shape and mold us as her students. Without my realizing it, she began teaching me a lesson that took me three graduate degrees, 24 years of service in higher education, and countless life experiences to understand: the enormous impact educators can have on their students."
Leslie Camacho

7 Community Colleges Try an Online Doorway to Help Students Succeed - Online Learning -... - 1 views

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  • Leslie Camacho on 05 Dec 11
     
    "There are two things Clint McElroy knows about community-college students: A huge number of them don't stay in school. And many of them-who are often the first in their families to go to college, and who must juggle work and parenting-don't understand how to balance all those demands while studying at the college level."
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What Spurs Students to Stay in College and Learn? Good Teaching Practices and Diversity... - 0 views

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  • Good teaching and exposure to students from diverse backgrounds are some of the strongest predictors of whether freshmen return for a second year of college and improve their critical-thinking skills,
  • How College Affects Students, and they sought on Sunday to synthesize what recent research says about student learning, while also weighing in on recent controversies in higher-education research.
  • The likelihood that freshmen returned to college for their sophomore year increased 30 percent when students observed those teaching practices in the classroom. And it held true even after controlling for their backgrounds and grades. "These are learnable skills that faculty can pick up," Mr. Pascarella said.
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  • Good teaching
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  • how well the teacher organized material, used class time, explained directions, and reviewed the subject matter.
  • Exposure to students of diverse backgrounds was measured
  • he gains in critical-thinking skills over four years were strongest for students who entered college with weaker academic backgrounds, defined as those with scores of 27 or lower on the ACT college-entrance examination.
  • He also sought to replicate the findings of Academically Adrift, the blockbuster book released this year that argues that 36 percent of college students show no significant gains in learning between freshman and senior year. The book's authors, Richard Arum, of New York University, and Josipa Roksa, of the University of Virginia, also found that just under half of students wrote papers of 20 pages or more each semester and that they spent 13 to 14 hours per week studying.
  • November 6, 2011 What Spurs Students to Stay in College and Learn? Good Teaching Practices and Diversity. By Dan Berrett
  • Leslie Camacho on 05 Dec 11
     
    "Good teaching and exposure to students from diverse backgrounds are some of the strongest predictors of whether freshmen return for a second year of college and improve their critical-thinking skills, say two prominent researchers."
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    THE college admissions system is broken. When students submit applications, colleges learn a great deal about their competence from grades and test scores, but remain in the dark about their creativity and character. Essays, recommendation letters and alumni interviews provide incomplete information about students' values, social and emotional skills, and capacities for developing and discovering new ideas.
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