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This is an essential guide for educators, administrators, policymakers, and the media. Glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Education has changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define them. We believe this glossary is useful for a wider field of educators promoting student success. This glossary provides precise language and definitions to use when communicating with peers and more effectively influencing administrato ...
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Schools and community agencies must work together to provide transition services to students with disabilities. This podcast series brings Texas Workforce Solution Transition Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors and local educational agency and charter school transition-related personnel to the table to communicate effectively to plan and deliver transition services that are collaborative, effective, and sustainable.
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Welcome to the Student Success Exchange, a series of deep conversations about real student stories between a Student Affairs Professional and the students he serves. Hosted by David Ip Yam, the idea behind this podcast is to learn from the experiences of students who are striving and persevering through post-secondary education. Discover how they define success, make sense of their journeys and the skills they use throughout the process. This podcast is for anyone interested in hearing about ...
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Hello, this is David Arendale. Thank you for listening to the essential glossary for increasing postsecondary student success: administrators, faculty, staff, and policymakers. It was a privilege to serve as editor of this third edition of the glossary. The names of the team that produced this reinvented work are provided a little later in this bri…
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Less Acceptable Terms for Students These terms have been used to describe students but are now designated as “less acceptable” since they are binary and factually inaccurate. In the future, these terms may be designated as unacceptable for use. A few glossary terms are included that help explain why the other terms were designated as less acceptabl…
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Transitional Courses and Programs This category describes the wide array of approaches for meeting the academic and social needs of students as they make the transition from secondary to postsecondary education. Two new terms provide an umbrella for these approaches: transitional courses and transitional programs. Some approaches have been recently…
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Student-to-Student Learning Organized or informal approaches may occur during class sessions or afterward. If the activity is embedded within the course session, these could also be included in the Transitional Courses Programs category. An annotated bibliography of more than 1,900 publications is available of the major national and international p…
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Program Management This category of glossary terms relates most directly to the operation of administrative offices, programs, and in some cases classroom instruction. Additional terms related to program management are contained in the Assessment category. More comprehensive glossaries of terms can be found in the Greenwood Dictionary of Education …
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Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning Many of these are comprehensive pedagogies for teaching and learning. Other glossary terms are learning approaches that widen access to the learning environment. A few of these are old pedagogies that inhibit student learning and are generally avoided in current contexts. Glossary terms from other categories cou…
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Copyright and Academic Integrity These terms apply to instructors, program managers, and students on how they handle curricula, media, and publications created by others and attribution to previously published works. These can be enormously complicated issues that may require consultation with institutional legal services to avoid violations and po…
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Assessment These glossary terms are primarily related to student and program assessment. Some related terms are located under the Program Management category. More comprehensive glossaries of terms can be found in the Greenwood Dictionary of Education (Collins & O’Brien, 2011) and the Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (Newcomer, Hatry, & Who…
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Antiracism and Racism The following is an essential collection of terms related to antiracism and racism. More comprehensive glossaries on this topic are available from Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (2020), Diversity Advisory Council (n.d.), Georgetown University Library (2020), Institute for Democratic Renewal and Project Change Anti-R…
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Teaching and Learning Process This general collection of teaching and learning processes encompasses all glossary terms that were not easily assigned into the other eight categories of this glossary. Check the other eight topical glossaries for relevant terms that apply to your work. A comprehensive glossary is The Greenwood Dictionary of Education…
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Language is not static. It flows like a river in response to the riverbank and the rocks that border and run beneath it. In the same way, glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Developmental education and learning assistance have changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define t…
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Grades demotivate student learning. That is a problem. Faculty also often spend significant amounts of time grading. Another problem. So, if we know grading demotivates learning and we are spending lots of our time grading, are we working against ourselves? Are we working against the goals of our courses? Isn’t our goal to motivate students to lear…
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Content isn’t enough! The classroom environment that you create can foster learning or impede learning. If you really are here for all of your students, and I think you are, then it is critical to ensure that the environment you provide is one the fosters learning for all students. In this episode Dr. Oscar Fernandez discusses Inclusive Excellence …
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This short teaser provides an overview of the Increasing Student Success podcast. Words are powerful, and their obvious and nuanced meanings play out in public arenas with an impact on private lives. We see evidence daily of how words are used and misused in personal conversations and national debates. The language used in policies, legislation, me…
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A huge amount of information must be provided to students at the outset of every course. Enter the SYLLABUS! A universal one-way communication tool that can set the tone for your course and for your relationship with your students. It defines the rules of engagement - the struggle for power between student and faculty. In this episode we talk about…
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For decades, the United States has been trying to increase the number of STEM professionals from underrepresented groups - with limited success. Retention and persistence at the undergraduate level, and advancement to graduate degrees continue to be problematic areas. In this episode we talk with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta about her fascinating long-te…
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UNGRADING! You might already implement some form of UNGRADING but it is more likely that you don’t. Perhaps you heard of UNGRADING and dismissed it, or thought about it but decided it wasn’t the right time, or decided it wasn’t right for you or your students, or thought the whole idea was insane, or perhaps you don’t know anything about UNGRADING a…
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OLD NEWS: A 2014 meta-analysis by Scott Freeman and colleagues of 225 peer-reviewed studies concluded that students taught in an active learning environment significantly outperform peers taught using more traditional formats. CURRENT STATUS: Most colleges and universities are still a long way from full adoption of these practices. The reasons are …
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In higher education our introductory classes are more diverse than ever. That’s great! Our graduating classes? Less diverse. That’s bad! Faculty play a critical role in this loss of diversity and therefore have a responsibility to address the issue. In this episode, Dr. Viji Sathy and Dr. Kelly Hogan, authors of “Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for …
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Higher education is recognizing the importance and value of diversity and inclusivity in our institutions, our classes, our majors, and in the workforce. Along with this recognition are efforts to increase the success and graduation rates of all students with particular attention to our historically excluded, minoritized, marginalized, and first ge…
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As researchers study the success of students in active classrooms, they expose new questions to ask, they generate new data to analyze. These data put classrooms implementing active learning practices under the microscope. In looking closely at the details of implementation, researchers are now uncovering evidence of practices resulting in inequiti…
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In this episode we parse the massive Active Learning Umbrella and discuss a particular type of active learning classroom, the generative classroom in which students generate their knowledge. Dr. Tessa Andrews (University of Georgia) discusses her research investigating how expert instructors think about, prepare and implement active learning in the…
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Who were your role models growing up? In particular, who were your role models that led you to your career in academia? I’m going to guess that most of your academic role models were teachers who look like you or might have similar backgrounds to you. Think about the power of that - seeing an inspirational teacher/educator/thinker/academic that has…
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In daily life, we seem inundated by negative talk and negative messaging. Open the newspaper, listen to talk radio, don’t even start me on social media! But our classrooms, our classrooms should be a sanctuaries, safe places to have civil, open discourse on contentious and non-contentious issues. Whew! That sounds like a slice of heaven, doesn’t it…
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In Episode 2 Dr. Kimberly Tanner introduced us to Instructor Talk, the non-content language used by instructors. In this episode, listen to a fascinating discussion with Drs. Ovid and Rice about the student perspective of instructor talk. How do students view instructor talk? What do students hear? What do students think? And interestingly, what do…
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How can you best help ALL of your students learn when they are all different? They each have their own complex lives and life histories. Listen to Kirsten Behling and Thomas Tobin talk about bringing the principles of Universal Design for Architecture to the learning environment to help manage this seemingly intractable problem. Universal Design fo…
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Episode 16 is Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Jessamy Neuhaus. We discuss the importance of time for reflection, the practice of gratitude, and the challenges of student evaluations of teaching: the most contentious subject in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.Steven Robinow による
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“The Research is Pretty Clear that there is one thing and only one thing that across the board improves teaching. Do you know what that is, Steve?” This is the first episode of two part series with Dr. Jessamyn Neuhaus, author of Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds who want to be effective teachers. published in 2019 by…
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Many faculty participate in professional development programs that promise increases student success and decreases in the opportunity gap. Programs that train faculty in evidence-based practices have reason to promise these outcomes. However, some faculty that go through these trainings implement theses practices, others don’t. What are the factors…
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The percentage of students on our campuses suffering from depression doubled from 2009 to 2019. Student suicides increased 50% over the same period. The pandemic probably hasn’t helped. Campuses nationwide are responding by increasing access to health care professionals and training staff and faculty to identify stressed students. However, most cam…
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Many of your students grew up economically disadvantaged. Without intervention, economically disadvantaged students are more likely to leave the academy than economically advantaged students. While no one expects faculty to solve students economic problems (well, maybe we can help by minimizing costs of textbooks), we as faculty can significantly i…
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Dr. Tracie Marcella Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lafayette College discusses her 2021 book “What Inclusive Instructors Do. Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching”. In this episode, we discuss why instructors and institutions should embrace inclusive practices. We also discuss practices that improve engagemen…
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Dr. Robert Ariel, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University discusses his research on a simple approach that may help students adopt a proven study method - retrieval practice - that improves long term student learning and student success. If you are unfamiliar with retrieval based learning, please listen to my interview wit…
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Enjoy a conversation with Dr. Bryan Dewsbury about an approach to inclusive instruction that goes beneath the mechanics of your courses. We don’t talk about what your syllabus looks like, how you engage students in your learning environments, or how you assess students. Instead we discuss an approach to inclusive instruction that first and foremost…
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Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with Peggy Brickman about group work. In part 1 of this episode, we discussed her 2018 paper entitled WHEN GROUP WORK DOESN’T WORK. INSIGHTS FROM STUDENTS. In this paper Peggy discusses her research on group work identifying a number of problems concerning standard practices that one might implement in courses. …
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If you are interested in using group work in your courses but might be a bit intimidated, if you are using group work but are frustrated by it, if you have used group work but have sworn it off, I encourage any and all to listen to this two part series on the problems of group work and possible solutions. In this episode I have a conversation with …
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Dr. Mark McDaniel of Washington University, author of “Make It Stick”, discusses learning and the importance of recognizing that learning is a skill. A skill that can and should be learned, a skill that can and should be taught. A variety of researchers study how people learn. There are reams of data about the effectiveness of various learning stra…
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Dr. Susan Blum (University of Notre Dame), a Renaissance Humanist (look it up) discusses her recent book, UNGRADING: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and what to do instead). In this episode, Dr. Blum discusses problems associated with the long established system of grades and grading and discusses a recent movement, UNGRADING, which is a c…
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Dr. Harriet Schwartz of Antioch University discusses her recent book, “Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education”. Most faculty spend a significant part of their lives interacting with students. Dr. Schwartz’s book reminds us that so much of teaching is about moments with students. These moments can be brief or exte…
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Dr. Jeff Karpicke of Purdue University discusses his research on retrieval based learning showing that repeated testing of students without repeated study sessions results in higher rates of learning over the long term compared to students who repeatedly study but are not tested. This discussion might alter the way you think about studying and lear…
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Dr. Bill Davis of Washington State University discusses two simple, non-content interventions that improve student success and decrease the equity gap. You will be amazed how a simple wording change to a syllabus, and how a straightforward email of encouragement can improve student success and decrease the equity gap of your courses. This is an imp…
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Dr. Kimberly Tanner of San Francisco State University discusses her work documenting and coding the non-content talk that facutly use as they speak to students during class sessions. This work establishes the framework for future studies on the impact of “Instructor Talk” on the performance and attitudes of students.…
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Dr. Carl Wieman, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001, discusses his motivation to move away from fundamental physics research to the world of education research. Dr. Wieman tells a story that will resonate with those interested in ensuring that students are provided with the best possible learning opportunities for their success.…
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“Two weeks after being accepted into the PhD, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes [...] the auto-immune form of diabetes [...] That last chapter [of my student journey] was about Deanna finding her own resilience.” - Deanna Paolantonio (PhD)Deanna Paolantonio is a proud alumnus of York University. Dr. Paolantonio completed her doctorate in dance s…
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“I’m privileged to be able to attend University [...] this is not a given, this is a privilege and I am thankful everyday to be able to come to school [...] I wake up feeling so thankful for this opportunity to learn.” - Glenn Singh Glenn is a first generation Canadian who is in his fourth year of studies at York University majoring in social work …
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“My high school was predominantly white. There were a few pockets of racialized groups. I didn't realize it at the time [...] the microaggressions that we had experienced and how that affected the leadership opportunities that we were given...” - Althea Parala In this episode, Althea Parala discusses three distinct and contrasting educational journ…
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“I started to enjoy learning. I started to learn about (social) issues I didn’t know about. I started to see the world around me not just the superficial world I knew.” - Mujtaba Ahmed-Hassan In this episode, Mujtaba shares what it was like to be a cis African-Canadian male that grew up in challenging socio-economic circumstances. While he faced ma…
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