FYE Course Assessment: Transforming Your First Year Students' Behaviors and Attitudes
Tuesday, November 10th ~ 1:00-3:00 EST
Overview
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.
Objectives
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Pedagogical techniques and materials that target specific attitudinal variables and behaviors that are
correlated with academic achievement
How to help students recognize their minimalist attitudes, patterns of resistance, and procrastinatory behaviors
How to administer and interpret assessment tools that measure particular attitudes and study behaviors
correlated with academic achievement.
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.
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