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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing. However, while data provides valuable insights, it fails to capture the deeper, more personal factors influencing student success. Simply put, data is not enough.

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BookSnaps for Enhancing Student Learning

Faculty Focus

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. Expressing a passage as an image will thus help students retain its meaning.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning. Ideally, faculty development programs could promote and illustrate that reflection during the action can be learned. Interestingly, Schon would probably agree with the above.

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Why Data Alone Won’t Improve Retention

Faculty Focus

From tracking retention rates to measuring academic performance, data offers a clear, quantifiable view of how students and institutions are progressing. However, while data provides valuable insights, it fails to capture the deeper, more personal factors influencing student success. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Learning Outcomes for Instructors, Not Just Students

Faculty Focus

And you’ve definitely assessed your students against them. They help ensure that we’re on the right track in fostering our students’ intellectual, emotional, and in some cases spiritual growth. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? We need them. My list addresses that risk.

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Learning Outcomes for Instructors, Not Just Students

Faculty Focus

And you’ve definitely assessed your students against them. They help ensure that we’re on the right track in fostering our students’ intellectual, emotional, and in some cases spiritual growth. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only? We need them. My list addresses that risk.

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BookSnaps for Enhancing Student Learning

Faculty Focus

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. Expressing a passage as an image will thus help students retain its meaning.