Keeping Students from Going AWOL: The Link between Pedagogy and Student Retention

French, Eric Michael; Westler, Brendon

doi:10.1080/15512169.2018.1468763

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“…Especially when the material is very technical (as is the case in methods), the instructor is tempted to stand-and-deliver a traditional lecture as the expert in the room. Active learning strategies, like flipped classrooms (where students engage with the material on their own time and come to the class session with questions [Touchton 2015]) or peer learning (where students work collaboratively on problems during class time), are demonstrated to increase student retention (French and Westler 2019), increase student interest (Hendrickson 2021), and increase self-confidence in learning (Murphy 2015). These active learning strategies are even more flexible in the methods classroom.…”

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Teaching Graduate Political Methodology

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Day 1 of a graduate methods class can be a terrifying thought for some, if not most, students. The teacher's job, then, is to focus on communicating the "basics": defined here not as a set of skills or methods but instead as a set of vocabularies. Giving students a clear, consistent, and usable framework of statistical vocabulary can ease statistics apprehension and establish a baseline for understanding future methods instruction. Introducing this vocabulary using proven teaching methods (like peer instruction and active learning) ameliorates the anxiety even more and helps transform student beliefs toward a growth mindset in learning and using data for research.

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Learning Theories Within Gamification

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Gamification Strategies for Retention, Motivation, and Engagement in Higher Education

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Gamification has drawn the attention of academics, researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals. Gamification has a diverse meaning that offers to underpin theoretical foundations and knowledge that applied to many disciplines. To provide effective developmental education to assist with retention, it is crucial for industry or institutions to implement best practices that have been proven effective based on strong theoretical foundations. This chapter discusses several critical theoretical areas associated with gamification and how it can be applied to assist with retention. This chapter presents research on both the interest of the student and institutional perspectives for future research.

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Keeping Students from Going AWOL: The Link between Pedagogy and Student Retention

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

Data basics for graduate students

Data basics for graduate students

Learning Theories Within Gamification

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