Teaching College Students Research Articles

Optimizing task-analysis instruction: Effects of descriptions and pictures of antecedent stimuli and outcomes.

Little research has examined specific instructional variables that influence the development and effectiveness of task-analysis instruction. We conducted two experiments using text-based task analyses to teach college students to create single-subject reversal design graphs. In Experiment 1, we tested the effects of presenting antecedent and outcome stimuli on graphing performance (accuracy, yield, time to completion). Different groups of participants experienced graphing tutorials with descriptions and pictures of (a) responses; (b) antecedent stimuli and responses; (c) responses and outcomes of correct responses; and (d) antecedent stimuli, responses, and outcomes. In Experiment 2, we compared tutorials with and without pictures. Collectively, the results suggest that graphing accuracy was positively affected by task analyses that included pictures and descriptions of antecedent stimuli and that adding outcome stimuli further benefited graphing accuracy. These results suggest critical instructional elements that should be included in future task analyses of graphing or other complex behavior chains.

English Language Teaching: Teaching College Students English for Particular Functions

This paper includes a current evaluation as well as a course layout. English for unique functions (ESP) within the subject of ELT (English Language Teaching), 2) the characteristics of teachers and students in ESP, and 3) the demanding situations associated with the trainer, pupil, surroundings, and other factors in ESP teaching. The ESP in ELT refers back to the particular English language necessities of the target learners or scholars. It describes the coaching of a certain English genre for college students with a defined set of targets that is geared in the direction of and concentrated on English teaching and studying. Based totally on an assessment of desires, targets, and the sports requiring English, ESP is created and advanced. Positive duties as a trainer, such as asking college students to develop study goals, creating a supportive environment, getting to know their surroundings, and assessing college students' progress, are all approaches to shaping publications. At the same time, getting to know techniques that are properly designed, difficult-to-remember know-how, and a specific ardor for learning are all associated with newcomers. Within the implementation of ELT, there are challenges and issues related to the instructor in coaching ESP, inclusive of the poor quality of the lectures and textbooks, the lecturers' inadequate qualifications and teaching strategies, and the absence of a theoretical framework for coaching ESP. difficulties relating to the students, such as their demographics, the demands of learning ESP, their English skill ability, the differences between their native tongue and other languages, their loss of vocabulary, their reliance on dictionaries, and their lack of know-how of how to use dictionaries, particularly ESP phrases. while the environment-associated challenges consist of a shortage of educational substances, courses with an excessive number of students, and a heavy emphasis on exams.

CALM: caring action leadership mindfulness: a college counseling practice-based education model

ABSTRACT College is a phase in life where many young people experience freedom to make decisions as they have never had before. They are living in a community where their education, work, professional, social, and living environment are all very closely entwined. In order to be successful, college students need to feel connected to the college campus, especially at larger public universities. In 2021 the authors surveyed public university social work programs located within the United States and found that many graduate social work students complete internships with the campus counseling center. Advanced social work students are engaged in the majority of these practice education placements. Over three-quarters of the graduate social work students in these internships facilitate student support groups and/or psycho-educational classes and groups on campus. However, just over one-third teach college students mindfulness practice and/or meditation. We suggest a practice-based education model [CALM: Caring Action Leadership Mindfulness] for designing a collaborative Social Work Internship at the campus counseling center that supports the promotion of student mental and physical health, mindfulness and persistence to achieve a college degree.

How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb

ABSTRACT Young Americans are coming of age immersed in daily news and controversy about rising perils like climate change, and emerging ones like artificial intelligence. Generation Z has produced and embraced movements for climate action like the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg that connect to other social justice movements. But the threat posed by nuclear weapons remains a disconnected abstraction to many young people, even as tensions between nuclear-armed states over conflicts like the invasions of Ukraine and Gaza renew fears of a nuclear confrontation that were more common decades ago. In this personal essay, a life-long opponent of nuclear weapons raised during the Cold War reflects on intergenerational lessons about activism, and teaching college students to embrace their curiosity, and their fear, on the way to saving the world.

The Application of Big Data Technology in Teaching College Students’ Mental Health Education in Colleges and Universities

Abstract Advances in big data technology herald a new era for mental health education in higher education, offering novel solutions to age-old challenges in student psychological care. This paper investigates how big data’s analytical capabilities can surpass traditional, one-size-fits-all mental health assessments by leveraging detailed student data for personalized care. We applied data mining techniques to the mental health data of 1,200 students from College G, creating a rich database of psychological patterns and a mental health information exchange platform. The analysis led to the identification of 500 instances of psychological distress with an accuracy of 79.5% and unveiled patterns linking academic stress and adjustment difficulties to mental health issues. Our research underscores big data’s role in enhancing mental health interventions, providing the groundwork for more individualized and effective mental health services in academic settings.

Practice of Teaching Creative Writing with Text in a High-quality Context for College Students Based on Predictive Analysis Ability of Big Data

INTRODUCTION: With the advent of the digital age, big data has become essential to all walks of life. In digital education, it has become an indispensable part, which can cover the students' learning progress, learning hours, practice scores, course information, classroom interaction information and so on, which makes the teaching process fully covered and a one-stop learning experience. Big data is essential to promote China's education to the scientific, systematic, informatization and customization continue to move forward.
 OBJECTIVES: To further improve the writing ability of college students in China, the systematic learning of big data is integrated into the daily teaching and life of the university so that college students can better embrace this significant data era.
 METHODS: This paper discusses the analysis of the current situation of college students' accompanying writing, the problems and improvement methods of college students' accompanying creative writing, the systematic elaboration of big data, and the method of predictive analysis of big data to explore the practice of teaching college students' accompanying creative writing in a high-quality context based on the ability of predictive analysis of big data.
 RESULTS: With the advent of the digital age, big data has become an essential part of various fields. As an even more indispensable part of the digital education field, it can cover students' learning progress, learning time, practice results, course information, classroom interaction information, Etc., indeed covering the entire education program for a one-stop learning experience.
 CONCLUSION: For language teachers in colleges and universities, improving the ability of predictive analytics under big data and then integrating it into the teaching practice to cultivate college students with high-quality creative writing skills based on the ability of predictive analytics of big data is the current priority, and is also the goal of colleges and universities to cultivate talents.

Using Spent's Online Poverty Simulation To Teach Family and Consumer Sciences College Students About Poverty

Family and consumer sciences (FCS) is an interdisciplinary field in which professionals, regardless of their specialty area, will most likely need to interact with individuals and families in poverty. Several tools are available to help instructors teach college students about poverty. The Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) has been widely used throughout FCS programming (Nickols & Nielsen, 2011); however, other poverty simulations (e. g., Spent https://playspent. org) are not referenced in the literature. More than 100 students in college-level family resource management courses completed the Spent poverty simulation from 2015 through 2019. In this paper, we provide an overview of the state of poverty and the use of poverty simulations in higher education. The authors offer tips for readers looking to implement a virtual poverty simulation in their FCS courses.

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Technologies of Kyrgyz language teaching in college based on communicative competence are considered as the subject of research in scientific work. The purpose of the research is to develop the technologies of teaching based on communicative competence, to show the acceptable aspects of students' thinking, speech etiquette, communication skills, as well as to determine the scientific and theoretical basis of teaching students in the communicative direction. More specifically, the teaching of the Kyrgyz language in colleges in a communicative direction is considered in combination with psychology, and it is clarified that it is a complex and multifaceted process. The historical-comparative method of research was used here. As a result of the research, the scientific-theoretical directions of teaching college students in the communicative direction were determined by considering and interpreting communicative competence in combination with psychology. The nature of communication, the history of research, and analyzing it from a psychological point of view, communication was considered as an activity. The value of the research is the development of the skills of the main speech activity in teaching the Kyrgyz language aimed at the specialization of students in colleges. The obtained results are recommended to be used in the teaching process of the Kyrgyz language in colleges.

Case study on including ethics into introductory data visualization

Given the amount of data created and available to everyone, there is a gap in consumable everyday data analytic tools for anyone to make sense of their data. At anonymous university, we designed an introductory data visualization course to teach college students how to analyze data. Students enrolled in this six-week summer course and used utilize Trifacta \cite{Trifacta}, Tableau \cite{Tableau}, and ObservableHQ \cite{ObservableHQ} on the IEEE VAST Challenge 2022 dataset. The course emphasized the uncertainty and deception involved in data visualization. We structured the course around ethical design choices. In this paper, we describe an overview of the ethical goals of our six-week data visualization summer course, review example student work on the IEEE VAST Challenge, and provide recommendations for ways to add ethical functionality to visualization tools. The goal is for more data visualization tools which are consumable for novice users and support ethical design choices.

Teaching College Students About Asian Pacific American Politics from Multiple Perspectives

The recent, unfortunate targeting of Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) with violence and during the COVID 19 pandemic highlight how this racial group has been both visible yet invisible not only in the context of contemporary U.S. race relations, but also in regard to classroom teaching and learning. With more than 150 years in the USA, APAs are still stereotyped as forever foreigners and model minorities even to this day. We wanted to address some of these issues and challenges that are taking shape both inside and outside of the classrooms of higher learning. This special edition collection of essays captures the multiple perspectives of teaching college students about APAs to allow those in higher education (e.g. professors, administrators, department chairs) greater insights on this diverse community.

Faculty Perspectives on the Appeal and Impact of Including College Students With Intellectual Disability

Abstract Supporting the academic engagement of students with intellectual disability is a central focus of the inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) movement. In this study, we used focus group interviews to explore the views of 23 university faculty involved in teaching college students with intellectual disability in traditional courses. We asked faculty about their motivations for offering inclusive courses, how they were affected by the experience, and how they perceived classmates were impacted. Faculty discussed a range of factors that drew them to this inclusive teaching experience and highlighted multiple ways in which they and their students were positively impacted by the enrollment of students with intellectual disability. We offer recommendations for research and practice aimed at expanding and strengthening the academic experiences of college students with intellectual disability within IPSE programs.

Behavioral skills training to teach college students to free‐pour standard servings of alcohol

AbstractCollege student members of Greek Letter Organizations (GLOs) report high levels of alcohol consumption, which is associated with adverse academic and health consequences. Those who report lower consumption also report counting their drinks, which requires the ability to identify and pour standard servings of alcohol, skills college students generally lack. Behavioral skills training (BST) has been used to teach students to pour standard servings of beer. However, little is known about whether BST is effective when used in a small‐group format or with other alcohol types, and whether skills generalize across time and novel cups. We used a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design to address these gaps. After receiving small group BST, all participants poured beer accurately, most poured accurately at follow‐up, and about half poured accurately into a novel cup. After receiving individual BST, participants' pours of liquor were variable and most required additional training.

For Whom is Distance Learning Suitable? The Relationship between Distance Learning, Executive Functions, and Academic Achievements

The current study examines whether there are differences in academic success between classroom learning and distance learning and further evaluates which characteristics are associated with lower achievement in distance learning, in contrast to learning in a classroom setting. A cross-sectional design was employed with 118 students in higher education who completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning–Adult Version, the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, and the Academic Motivation Scale. The students were also asked to report their GPAs in the first and second semesters. In agreement with the majority of previous studies, no differences in academic achievement were found between classroom and distance learning. An innovative finding of this study is that executive functions are directly and indirectly associated with academic achievements in distance learning. Self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation mediate these relationships. The use of distance education technology versus traditional classroom learning to teach college students does not affect their academic performance. Thus, it is advisable to develop this type of instruction and allow students who are suited for and interested in distance learning to complete a portion of their courses in this way, as this change will not adversely affect their academic performance. Additionally, in distance learning, it is crucial that students with low executive functions be identified and given a comprehensive support structure, including conveying learning strategies to them and strengthening their senses of self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation.

Andragogy: The Common Thread in the Teaching of Adults in Colleges of Education, Criminal Justice, and Health Management

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought dramatic changes to higher education. Students and educators face challenges never anticipated, including switching classes from on-ground to online and back again, mental fatigue, stress, and burnout. Faculty across disciplines may turn to Andragogy to best teach college students to inform their teaching practices. This paper demonstrates how professors from education, criminal justice, and healthcare management have used andragogical techniques in their classrooms.

Teaching through scenarios: Identities and sexual violences in the gender studies classroom

AbstractThis article provides guidelines and scenarios as tools for teaching college students about identities and sexual violence.

Teaching Strategies for Enhancing Student’s Learning

There are various teaching methods and learning styles. These methods mostly focus on students' learning capacities for better understanding and engagement. Educational principles and pedagogy focus on the type of students' learning, the type of teaching tool, and the classroom environment. These three aspects can help students and instructors facilitate the learning process and make it easily absorbable. This paper aims to shed light on various teaching strategies and class activities that instructors could use in their teaching methods to enhance student’s learning. The author shows five strategies that are effective for teaching college students. These strategies can help students meet their educational needs and stimulate their brains to expand their knowledge and learning. These methods are as follows: presenting short lectures to refresh students' attention to the class lesson and help their brains come up with ideas about the topic based on their daily experience, brainstorming that is a class group activity helping students work together and learn how to value each other opinions, group reports that encourage students to be familiar with strategies of writing a report as a conclusion for the group meeting, technology-based activities that develops students' educational skills in broadening their self-learning, and PowerPoint presentation that helps students review what they have learned in the class.

MatLab vs. Python vs. R

Matlab, Python and R have all been used successfully in teaching college students fundamentals of mathematics & statistics. In today’s data driven environment, the study of data through big data analytics is very powerful, especially for the purpose of decision making and using data statistically in this data rich environment. MatLab can be used to teach introductory mathematics such as calculus and statistics. Both Python and R can be used to make decisions involving big data. On the one hand, Python is perfect for teaching introductory statistics in a data rich environment. On the other hand, while R is a little more involved, there are many customizable programs that can make somewhat involved decisions in the context of prepackaged, preprogrammed statistical analysis.

Developing the Choir Learning Model for Teaching College Students

This research is motivated by the problem of not fulfilling student competence and the ineffective learning of the choir subject. The purpose of this research is to develop an effective and meaningful learning model that can improve student competence and encourage students to be creative. The development of this model is carried out in the choir subject. This type of research is research and development (R & D). The validity of the WICDIE learning model development is measured by using several instruments. The instrument validation sheet for syntax constructs is used to measure the quality of the construct from the syntax of the WICDIE learning model in the Choir subject. Based on the results of the validation, the syntax of WICDIE learning model revised so as to produce six steps of syntax, namely: 1) Warming up, 2) Introduction, 3) Concept, 4) Drill (Exercises), 5) implementation, 6) Evaluation (Assessment).

Using a Literacy Based Behavioral Intervention to Teach College Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to Request a Classroom Accommodation.

Many individuals with an intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are attending postsecondary education programs, yet they are not always proficient in using self-advocacy skills, such as requesting an academic accommodation. Access to these accommodations is vital for success in the postsecondary settings. Literacy based behavioral interventions (LBBIs) use a combination of print, visuals, and rehearsal and are an effective tool for teaching a range of skills including job skills to this population, but have not been investigated with a self-advocacy skill. In this study, a pre-service teacher was taught to deliver an LBBI to postsecondary students with IDD so they would learn to request and use a free online tool to record class lectures. Results showed that students were able to master the skill with the pre-service teacher delivered LBBI and maintain the skill after removal of the LBBI.

Using Educational Podcasts in Kinesiology College Courses

ABSTRACT E-learning has become an increasingly popular mode of teaching college students, including students in the field of kinesiology. With the rise of e-learning, it is important to examine and understand specific components of online learning, such as educational podcasts. Educational podcasts are podcasts that are developed specifically for learning purposes and are frequently developed and used by faculty members. Preliminary research suggests that many college courses already regularly use podcasts as a learning tool, as well as that educational podcasts are a beneficial tool to use to supplement the learning process. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine the literature related to educational podcasts. More specifically, within this paper the authors highlight the benefits of using educational podcasts, theories to apply to podcast development and implementation, types of podcasts, and strategies to properly incorporate educational podcasts within a kinesiology-related course.