Recently at the Teaching Center…

Academic Rigor and Student Success Lunch Discussion

Professor John M. Braxton of the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Program at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University led a discussion on the role that course examination questions play in the process of student persistence in private residential colleges and universities.  His analysis utilized a sample of 408 first-time, full-time undergraduate students at eight private residential colleges and universities as described in Rethinking College Student Retention (2014) by Braxton, Doyle, Hartley, Hirschy,  Jones and McLendon.