In October 2009, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition undertook its eighth triennial national survey of first-year seminar programming in American higher education. The purpose of the study was to gather information about first-year seminars in American higher education. A total of 2,519 institutions received invitations to participate and 1,019 responded to the survey.
Session Slides
- Leveraging Programmatic Decision Points for First-Year Seminar Success [pdf]
Jennifer Keup - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
ACPA 2013 - Las Vegas, NV
2013 - Demonstrating the Impact of First-Year Seminars on Student Outcomes [pdf]
Jennifer Keup - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
ACPA 2012 - Louisville, KY
2012 - Demonstrating the Impact of First-Year Seminars on Student Outcomes [pdf]
Jennifer Keup - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
ASHE 2012 - Las Vegas, NV
2012 - National Research and Trends on High-Impact Educational Practices and the Transition to College [pdf]
Jennifer R. Keup - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
AAC&U 2012
2012 - First-Year Seminars at 2-Year Colleges: Data Informed Design
Jennifer R. Keup - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Donna Younger
AACC Annual Convention 2011
2011 - High-Impact Educational Practices: Strategies for Achieving 21st Century Learning Outcomes [pdf]
Tracy L. Skipper - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
ACPA 2011 - Baltimore, MD
2011 - High-Impact Programs on Student Persistence: Evidence from Institutional-Level Data [pdf]
Ryan D. Padgett - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
National Symposium on Student Retention - Charleston, SC
2011 - Innovations in the First-Year Seminar: Additional Evidence [pdf]
Ryan Padgett - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Stuart Hunter - National Resource Center of The-First Year Experience and Students in Transition, Cindy Kilgo - National Resource Center of The-First Year Experience and Students in Transition
NASPA 2011 - Philadelphia, PA
2011 - The Impact of First-Year Seminars on College Students' Need for Cognition [pdf]
Jennifer R. Keup - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Ryan D. Padgett
ASHE 2010 - Indianapolis, IN
2010 - The Role of First-Year Seminars in College-Level Writing Instruction [pdf]
Tracy L. Skipper - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience 2010
2010 - Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Tracy L. Skipper - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Jennifer R. Keup - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
ACPA 2009
2009
Executive Summary
Questionnaire/Survey Instrument
Session Handout
- A National Overview of Writing in First-Year Seminars [pdf]
Tracy L. Skipper - National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Conference on College Composition and Communication 2010
2010 - Recent Findings and New Directions for Research on High-Impact Educational Practices [pdf]
Jennifer R. Keup - National Resource Center of The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, Ryan D. Padgett - National Resource Center of The-First Year Experience and Students in Transition
ASHE 2010 - Indianapolis, IN
2010