New article: Framing the Effects of High-Impact Practices from a High-Impact Learning Perspective. A Review of Studies

Article by Simla Arikan, Filip Dochy & Mien Segers in Creative Education:

16 different positive effects of Extended Combinations of High Impact Learning Practices were gathered under five main headings.

  • Achievement-focused effects: promoting retention and graduation rates, increasing academic achievement;
  • Motivation-focused effects: making students’ education more meaningful, promoting student engagement and motivation;
  • Personal development focused-effects: enhancing students’ personal growth and social development, appreciation of diversity, becoming leaders of one’s own learning, being aware of one’s own skills, abilities, beliefs;
  • Learning process-focused effects: enhancing learning, empowering students, collaboration are located.
  • Competence/skills development-focused effects: developing transformative learning, leadership skills, student and faculty/peer/society interaction, critical thinking, and job readiness skills.
  • Concluding, the most common effects are: increased student engagement and motivation, increased critical thinking, higher academic achievements, higher graduation rates and retention.

Full article can be found on:

https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=120139