HE180 Improving Teaching, Lear (Paperback)

EDITOR’S NOTES 5
Andrew K. Koch

Part I. The Issue

1. It’s About the Gateway Courses: Defining and Contextualizing the Issue 11
Andrew K. Koch

Part II. Data-Based Decisions and Actions

2. Guiding Early and Often: Using Curricular and Learning Analytics to Shape Teaching, Learning, and Student Success in Gateway Courses 21
Matthew D. Pistilli, Gregory L. Heileman

3. Putting the “Evidence” in Evidence-Based: Utilizing Institutional Research to Drive Gateway-Course Reform 31
Emily A. Berg, Mark Hanson

Part III. The Role of Academic Stakeholders

4. The Case for Intentionally Interwoven Peer Learning Supports in Gateway-Course Improvement Efforts 43
Johanna Dvorak, Kathryn Tucker

5. Fostering Evidence-Informed Teaching in Crucial Classes: Faculty Development in Gateway Courses 53
Susannah McGowan, Peter Felten, Joshua Caulkins, Isis Artze-Vega

6. Chief Academic Officers and Gateway Courses: Keys to Institutional Retention and Persistence Agendas 63
Roberta S. Matthews, Scott Newman

7. Why Gateway-Course Improvement Should Matter to Academic Discipline Associations and What They Can Do to Address the Issues 75
Julia Brookins, Emily Swafford

Part IV. Integrated Approaches and Systems

8. Intentionally Linking Gateway-Course Transformation Efforts with Guided Pathways 89
Martine Courant Rife, Christine Conner

9. Maximizing Gateway-Course Improvement by Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of the Parts 99
Andrew K. Koch, Richard J. Prystowsky, Tony Scinta

INDEX 111