Community College Students Rise to the Challenge--Meeting the Time Demands of Highly Structured Courses

Autor/inn/en	Freeman, Scott; Pape-Lindstrom, Pamela; Casper, Anne; Eddy, Sarah
Titel	Community College Students Rise to the Challenge--Meeting the Time Demands of Highly Structured Courses
Quelle	In: Journal of College Science Teaching, 49 (2020) 5, S.7-16 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-231X
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Two Year College Students; Biology; Majors (Students); Student Attitudes; Time Management; Introductory Courses; Active Learning; Achievement Gap; Family Relationship; Student Employment; Research Universities; Comparative Analysis; Institutional Characteristics; Study Habits; Undergraduate Students; Washington; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Biologie; Schülerverhalten; Zeitmanagement; Einführungskurs; Aktives Lernen; Studentenarbeit; Forschungseinrichtung; Study behavior; Study behaviour; Studienverhalten
Abstract	High-structure course designs have reduced achievement gaps for low-income and underrepresented minority students at research universities. But do community college students have time to do the preclass preparation required for intensive active learning, given their work and family commitments? We asked introductory majors biology students at two community colleges, a regional comprehensive university, and a research university (R1) in two states to report the number of hours spent on various activities each week. Our sample included one low-structure and one high-structure course at each institution type. Community college students reported higher levels of nonacademic time commitments than students at the regional comprehensives and the R1s. The community college students in both states reported spending the same amount of time studying for their biology course as the students at the R1s; in one state, the community college students were spending more time studying than the students at the comprehensive university. Our data show that community college students commit as much time to biology as other students, demonstrating that they can readily meet the time demands of a high-structure course. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01