LibGuides: Pathways to Success: A Resource Guide: Student Success Resources

Essential Learning Outcomes and High-Impact Practices

Essential Learning Outcomes, AAC&U's LEAP initiative
The Essential Learning Outcomes define the knowledge and skills gained from a liberal education, providing a framework to guide students’ cumulative progress.
High-Impact Educational Practices, AAC&U's LEAP initiative
These teaching and learning practices have been widely tested and have been shown to be beneficial for college students from many backgrounds. The practices take many different forms, depending on learner characteristics and on institutional priorities and contexts.An excerpt and .pdf chart from High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter, by George D. Kuh (AAC&U, 2008).

A Comprehensive Approach to Assessment of High-Impact Practices
High-impact practices—such as learning communities, capstones, undergraduate research, and community-based experiences—are effective pedagogies, and most of these practices have been around for decades. Given the intense focus across institutions of higher education on identifying, tagging, and touting their high-impact practices, assessment is what separates the committed practitioners from the casual adopters. Co-released by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, A Comprehensive Approach to Assessment of High-Impact Practices outlines a process of effectively assessing high-impact practices. AAC&U and National Institute for Learning Assessment Outcomes

Ensuring Quality and Taking HIPs to Scale
This text, available through STLCC Libraries, presents research on specific educational practices that correlate with high levels of academic challenge, student engagement, and achievement. Focused on the relationship between these practices and improvements in retention and graduation rates, the author offers advice on how to ensure that all students experience multiple high-impact practices. Campus case studies are included.

Affordable & Open Educational Resources (A&OER) Resources
Link takes you to the Affordable Course Materials & Textbooks page of the Libraries' A&OER guide.
A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction
May be useful for lower-level math courses. A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards. The Pathway offers guidance and resources for educators to use now as they plan their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist math practice.
Engaging Adjunct and Full-time Faculty in Student Success Innovation,
Cutting Edge Series No. 1, Achieving the Dream (2011)

Designing the online learning experience: Evidence-based principles and strategies by Conceição, S. C. O., & Howles, L. (2020)
ProQuest Ebook Centra
Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success by Bailey, T. R., Jaggars, S. S., & Jenkins, D. (2015).
Call Number: Ebook Central (requires login from off campus)

Community colleges enroll half of the nation's undergraduates. Yet only 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree in six years. Redesigning America's Community Colleges explains how two-year colleges can increase their students' success rate quickly and at less cost, through a program of guided pathways to completion.
Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation, by McGuire, Saundra Yancy (2015)
Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making by McTighe, Jay, and Harvey F. Silver (2020)
Best-selling authors Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves. Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip students to thrive in school, at work, and in life, the authors highlight seven higher-order thinking skills that facilitate students' acquisition of information for greater retention, retrieval, and transfer.

The College Completion Agenda: practical approaches for reaching the big goal.
Call Number: 378.154 N532n164, FP-Stacks

Publication Date: 2014

New Directions for Community Colleges. Special Issue. No. 164
Dual enrollment policies, pathways, and perspectives
Call Number: 378.154 N532n169, FP-Stacks

Publication Date: 2015
Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A clearer path to student success. by Bailey, T. R., Jaggars, S. S., & Jenkins, D. (2015). Harvard University Press.
Call Number: 378.154 B156r, FP-Stacks

This title is also available as an ebook (see Ebook box above for access link)