Creating a Network between Community College Students in First-Year Seminars and in Capstone Courses Using Writing Assignments

Autor/inn/en	Jaafar, Reem; Boumlik, Habiba; Alberts, Ian
Titel	Creating a Network between Community College Students in First-Year Seminars and in Capstone Courses Using Writing Assignments
Quelle	In: Cogent Education, 5 (2018) 1, Artikel 1548051 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jaafar, Reem) ORCID (Boumlik, Habiba) ORCID (Alberts, Ian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2331-186X
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Two Year College Students; First Year Seminars; Curriculum; Writing Assignments; STEM Education; Females; Sciences; Writing Instruction; Writing Across the Curriculum; Learner Engagement; Comparative Analysis; Writing Skills; Peer Evaluation; Integrated Activities; Learning Activities; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; STEM; Weibliches Geschlecht; Science; Wissenschaft; Schreibunterricht; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Integrierender Unterricht; Lernaktivität
Abstract	Writing, a critical pedagogical tool, cultivates student learning and fosters deeper understanding of the material. When frequent, low-stakes (informal) writing activities help students write more freely, engage with the material and thus become active learners. Looking at students who are at opposite ends of a community college spectrum, this article compares and contrasts students' writing skills using low-stakes assignments, including peer-reviewing of each other's work, in a capstone course and in a First-Year Seminar in terms of organization, clarity in communication and content analysis. The data generated from this study stem from an interdisciplinary collaboration among three instructors from Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, with the goal of creating a network between students in First-Year Seminars and students in the capstone course. Research methods in this context included assigning common readings to students in different classes on the theme of Women in STEM. It also included a peer review component: students reviewed each other's assignments and instructors visited each other's class to lead a discussion on the paucity of women in the fields of sciences or as Nobel Prize winner, with the additional aim of improving women's interest in STEM courses. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01