Academic health centers are essential in many communities, providing professions education and patient-focused services. These institutions often serve as anchor for community-engaged efforts to underserved populations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, central nature of academic centers, well-being were on full display. This special issue aims contribute expand our understanding inform empirically...

The current study examined the effects of motivating operations on problem behavior and academic engagement for 2 students with autism. Classroom sessions were preceded by periods in which the participants had access or no access to the items functionally related to their problem behavior. Results suggested that presession access may result in lower levels of problem behavior and higher levels ...

Krista M. Soria is an Analyst in the Office of Institutional Research, Jan Fransen is Service Lead: Researcher and Discovery Systems, and Shane Nackerud is Technology Lead, Library Initiatives, all at the University of Minnesota; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. ©2017 Krista M. Soria, Jan Fransen, and Shane Nackerud, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.or...

This research focuses on using NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement) responses to predict student academic success. The analysis is based on 16,630 Indiana University Bloomington first-year beginner students and seniors who completed the NSSE survey administered from 2006-2012. Logistic regression and linear regression on student background and pre-college information, financial aid, pre...

Movement toward patient-centered health care must be supported by an evidence base informed by greater patient engagement in research. Efforts to better understand patients' interest in and perspectives on involvement in the research process are fundamental to supporting movement of research programs toward greater patient engagement. We describe preliminary efforts to engage members of a commu...

0360-1315/$ see front matter 2008 Published by doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2008.09.005 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 904 620 3573; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (A.C. Carle). Can modern, computer-based technology engage college students and improve their academic achievement in college? Although numerous examples detail technology’s classroom uses, few studies empirically examine whether ...

The goal of this study was to examine the effect of physical modifications on the academic engagement and disruptive behavior of Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing students in self-contained classrooms. Three classrooms at a school for the Deaf were modified after consultation with the classroom teachers. The modifications of the classroom environment included changes in seating arrangements, classroom or...

While many universities have been deploying both electronic learning (eLearning) and social media applications for academic purposes, there is currently little research on the impact on their use on students’ overall learning experiences and associated learning possibiliti...