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Increasing Student Success

by David Arendale

This is an essential guide for educators, administrators, policymakers, and the media. Glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Education has changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define them. We believe this glossary is useful for a wider field of educators promoting student success. This glossary provides precise language and definitions to use when communicating with peers and more effectively influencing administrators, legislators, and the media.

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  1. Thank You and Acknowledgement to the Glossary Contributors

    Hello, this is David Arendale. Thank you for listening to the essential glossary for increasing postsecondary student success: administrators, faculty, staff, and policymakers. It was a privilege to serve as editor of this third edition of the glossary. The names of the team that produced this...

  2. Less Acceptable Terms for Students Glossary

    Less Acceptable Terms for Students These terms have been used to describe students but are now designated as “less acceptable” since they are binary and factually inaccurate. In the future, these terms may be designated as unacceptable for use. A few glossary terms are included that help explain...

  3. Transitional Courses and Programs Glossary

    Transitional Courses and Programs This category describes the wide array of approaches for meeting the academic and social needs of students as they make the transition from secondary to postsecondary education. Two new terms provide an umbrella for these approaches: transitional courses and...

  4. Student-to-Student Learning Glossary

    Student-to-Student Learning Organized or informal approaches may occur during class sessions or afterward. If the activity is embedded within the course session, these could also be included in the Transitional Courses Programs category. An annotated bibliography of more than 1,900 publications…

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  5. Program Management Glossary

    Program Management This category of glossary terms relates most directly to the operation of administrative offices, programs, and in some cases classroom instruction. Additional terms related to program management are contained in the Assessment category. More comprehensive glossaries of terms…

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  6. Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning Glossary

    Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning Many of these are comprehensive pedagogies for teaching and learning. Other glossary terms are learning approaches that widen access to the learning environment. A few of these are old pedagogies that inhibit student learning and are generally avoided in…

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  7. Copyright and Academic Integrity Glossary

    Copyright and Academic Integrity These terms apply to instructors, program managers, and students on how they handle curricula, media, and publications created by others and attribution to previously published works. These can be enormously complicated issues that may require consultation with...

  8. Assessment Glossary

    Assessment These glossary terms are primarily related to student and program assessment. Some related terms are located under the Program Management category. More comprehensive glossaries of terms can be found in the Greenwood Dictionary of Education (Collins & O’Brien, 2011) and the Handbook of...

  9. Antiracism and Racism Glossary

    Antiracism and Racism The following is an essential collection of terms related to antiracism and racism. More comprehensive glossaries on this topic are available from Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (2020), Diversity Advisory Council (n.d.), Georgetown University Library (2020),...

  10. Teaching and Learning Process Part Two of Two

    Teaching and Learning Process Part Two of Two picks up where the previous episode left off with terms related to the general area of teaching and learning. Other podcast episodes will be focused on more narrow topics of the glossary.

  11. Teaching and Learning Process Part One of Two

    Teaching and Learning Process This general collection of teaching and learning processes encompasses all glossary terms that were not easily assigned into the other eight categories of this glossary. Check the other eight topical glossaries for relevant terms that apply to your work. A...

  12. Introduction to the Essential Glossary for Student Success

    Language is not static. It flows like a river in response to the riverbank and the rocks that border and run beneath it. In the same way, glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Developmental education and learning assistance have changed dramatically in recent years, and so...

  13. Short Preview for the Podcast

    This short teaser provides an overview of the Increasing Student Success podcast. Words are powerful, and their obvious and nuanced meanings play out in public arenas with an impact on private lives. We see evidence daily of how words are used and misused in personal conversations and national...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

This is an essential guide for educators, administrators, policymakers, and the media. Glossaries are dynamic expressions of current language usage. Education has changed dramatically in recent years, and so must also the language used to describe and define them. We believe this glossary is useful for a wider field of educators promoting student success. This glossary provides precise language and definitions to use when communicating with peers and more effectively influencing administrators, legislators, and the media.

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