“Includes study abroad and study away. Explores cultures, life experiences, worldviews, and diversity”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 Effective study abroad programs for STEM students provide interdisciplinary experiences in new academic and ...
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High-Impact Practice: Collaborative assignments and projects
“Study groups within a course, team-based project/assignments, collaborative projects/assignments. Combines learning to work, solving problems, and listening to insights of others”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 Collaborative projects allow ...
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High Impact Practice: Writing-intensive courses
“Courses emphasize writing across the curriculum and provide revisions, feedback, and include writing as a significant part of course”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 It is well known that written assignments and projects help students to ...
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High Impact Practice: Common intellectual experiences
“Required common courses, Broad themes within curriculum and could be vertically organized though general education. May also include curricular and cocurricular options”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 Consistent learning objectives across ...
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High Impact Practice: Internships
“Provides direct experience in a work setting, related to career interests, supervised by mentor, coach, or professional in the field. Can be project, paper, or for credit. Includes cooperative education and part of experiential learning”Peters, ...
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High Impact Practice: Capstone courses and projects
“Culminating experiences at the end of the student’s college years, project, presentation, and report that integrates and applies what they learned throughout college”Peters, Tisdale, & Swinton, 2019 Capstone courses provide students the ...
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