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The primary goal of the majority of first-year experience courses is to help students transition to college. The heart of these courses is the psychology of adjustment. Psychology is the study of behavior and mental processes. If a first-year experience class is effective, the course will help students shift their behaviors (study habits) and mental processes (attitudes) from high school in order to adapt successfully to the college environment and make a smooth transition to the academic rigor of higher education--a paramount goal of first-year experience courses. Is your course effective in transforming students’ behaviors and attitudes? This session will explore both pedagogical techniques and assessment tools that can help you examine the effectiveness of your first-year experience course.
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Who should attend?
FYE instructors, curriculum coordinators, directors, and administrators
Who is the speaker?
Laurie L. Hazard holds an Ed.M. in Counseling and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Boston University. Laurie's experience with academic support began as a graduate student at Boston University and later as a reading and writing specialist in an innovative, team structured learning assistance program at Boston University. For two years, Laurie served as the Director of Academic Support Services at Becker College, a department which housed advising services for at-risk students, learning assistance programs, and tutoring services.
Laurie has been the Director of the Academic Center for Excellence and Writing Center at Bryant University for the last nine years. Laurie has been teaching and designing curricula for first-year experience and study skills courses for the last seventeen years. She has taught courses in college reading and study skills, liberal arts seminars, psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, and social psychology. Her area of expertise is the personality traits and attitudes of college students that influence academic achievement and mediate the utilization of newly learned study strategies.
Laurie is a New England Peer Tutor Association Board member and has hosted their Annual Forum at her institution. She has presented at national conferences such as the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, the Conference on College Composition and the College Reading and Learning Association.
Laurie co-authored a text entitled Foundations for Learning designed for study skills and first-year experience courses. Laurie has done extensive work writing about and assessing the effectiveness of learning assistance programs and FYE courses. She has been a Guest Editorial Board member for the Learning Assistance Review. Publications by Laurie and her co-author include: Exploring the Evidence, Volume III: Reporting Outcomes of First-Year Seminars, a monograph published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and “What Does It Mean to be ‘College-Ready’?”, an article which appears in Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education.
Laurie, an award winning educator, was recently selected by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition as a top ten Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate. In 2006, she also received the Learning Assistance Association of New England’s Outstanding Research and Publication Award.
Registration Information
How do I register?You can register online by adding this product to your shopping cart. If you have any questions, please call 303-775-6004.
When do I register? How much does it cost? You can register at any time. The cost is $345, which includes access to the recording for one year. Note: This is for one site connection and an unlimited amount of participants.
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