Recent Additions

• Developing Undergraduate Student Leadership Skills through Community-Based Mentoring Courses 

  Parish, Tracey, M.,& Malamud, Emily (2013-02-22)

  The purpose of this course is to support the academic performance and social acclimation of first year undergraduate students in the School of Music by providing greater access to academic and advising resources through ...

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• Reorganization of Experiential Learning Activities into a Single Multi-Section Course 

  Dilger, A.C.; Redman, L.; Hurley, Walter L. (2013-07-08)

  Encouraging students to engage in out-of-the-classroom learning experiences is a long-standing priority in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois. Recently, experiential learning opportunities ...

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• Walking the Walk: Using Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning to Improve Teaching Training 

  Grison, Sarah; Seiler, Stephanie; Carlson, Crystal (2012-02)

  Over two years, we explored whether a novel graduate teaching course could weave together three programs that would simultaneously: (1) Enhance graduate TAs’ teaching skills; (2) Investigate undergraduates’ learning and ...

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• Practice makes perfect: Improving learning of at-risk students 

  Watson, Patrick D.K.; Grison, Sarah; Luke, Steven G.; Shigeto, Aya (2010-01)

  29 graduate TAs and 1 faculty member teach 2700 Introductory Psychology students annually. This year we developed an assessment program to improve student learning and graduate teaching training (Shigeto et al., 2010). We ...

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• Some students are left behind: Despite positive attitudes, learning is modulated by prior academic achievement 

  Shigeto, Aya; Grison, Sarah; Luke, Steven G.; Watson, Patrick D.K. (2010-01)

  In our Introductory Psychology (Psych 100) program, 30 graduate TAs/faculty teach 2,700 undergraduates annually. While the program has received many accolades and TAs are often recognized for their teaching skills, we have ...

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