Dissertation
A program evaluation: examining the effect of a residential business learning community on university student engagement and academic achievement
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Drexel University
Sep 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/etd-6626
Abstract
A business college at a large, private research university in the northeastern United States started a residential freshman learning community in 2002. To date, the program has not been evaluated to ensure program goals and learning outcomes are being achieved. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to conduct an evaluation of the learning community program to measure the academic achievement and university engagement of both learning community participants and non-participants two years following their enrollment in the program. The study focused on traditional college students ages 20-22 who were enrolled in an undergraduate business college. The central research question was as follows: How does participation in a first-year business learning community (BLC) at an urban research university contribute to the academic success and university engagement of students in their third year of undergraduate study? Additional research questions explored and examined the learning community's effect on student achievement and retention. The mixed-methods study incorporated the Context Input Process Product (CIPP) model of evaluation to address the research questions.
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- Title
- A program evaluation
- Creators
- Chris Finnin - DU
- Contributors
- Joyce A. Pittman (Advisor) - Drexel University (1970-)
- Awarding Institution
- Drexel University
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
- Publisher
- Drexel University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- xvi, 201 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education (1997-2026); Drexel University
- Other Identifier
- 6626; 991014632518404721