| Title | A Teaching Intervention that Increases Underserved College Students’ Success |
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| Author | Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Matthew Bernacki, Jeffrey Butler, et.al. |
| Date | 01/01/2016 |
| Publication | American Association of Colleges & Universities |
| Website | cte.ku.edu |
| Abstract | "The challenge to provide equitable opportunities for college students to succeed is a critical priority for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In 2014, AAC&U partnered with the Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (TILT Higher Ed) project, founded at the University of Illinois and now housed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on an initiative that significantly increases underserved college students’ success. TG Philanthropy funded the Transparency and Problem-Centered Learning project (www.aacu.org/problemcenteredlearning), with Tia McNair, Ashley Finley, and Mary-Ann Winkelmes as the coinvestigators. In its first year, the endeavor has identified a simple, replicable teaching intervention that demonstrably enhances students’ success, especially that of first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented college students in multiple ways at statistically significant levels, with a medium to large magnitude of effect. These results offer implications for how faculty can help their institutions to right the inequities in college students’ educational experiences across the country." |