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 reinvented work are provided a little later in this brief podcast episode. If you would like a print copy of the glossary along with the extensive references that were cited throughout the glossary and thi...
Feb 19, 2024•7 min•Ep. 12
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 why the other terms were designated as less acceptable . The use of many of these words was explored in Terms of Endearment: Words that Help Define and Guide Developmental Education (Arendale, 2005) an...
Feb 19, 2024•13 min•Ep. 11
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 transitional programs . Some approaches have been recently created to replace remedial-level and developmental-level courses, which are out of favor with many policymakers and college administrators. academi...
Feb 19, 2024•32 min•Ep. 10
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 is available of the major national and international peer cooperative learning programs described in this glossary (Arendale, 2021). Accelerated Learning Groups (ALGs) 1. Definition: “ACCELERATED LEARNING...
Feb 19, 2024•27 min•Ep. 9
P rogram 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 can be found in the Greenwood Dictionary of Education (Collins & O’Brien, 2011) and the Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation (Newcomer, Hatry, & Wholey, 2015). academic credential 1. Definiti...
Feb 18, 2024•19 min•Ep. 8
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 current contexts. Glossary terms from other categories could also be useful, especially those in the Antiracism and Racism, Transitional Courses and Programs, and Teaching and Learning Process categories. The...
Feb 18, 2024•16 min•Ep. 7
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 institutional legal services to avoid violations and potential legal proceedings. Modern technology has made violations easier than in the past. More comprehensive glossaries on this topic are available in...
Feb 18, 2024•15 min•Ep. 6
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 Practical Program Evaluation (Newcomer, Hatry, & Wholey, 2015). affective domain 1. Definition: “A part of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives for student attitudes, values, and emotional...
Feb 18, 2024•25 min•Ep. 5
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), Institute for Democratic Renewal and Project Change Anti-Racism Institute (2019), Pokhrel et al., (2021), Race Forward (2015), Sue, Williams, & Owens (2021) and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (n.d.). Complet...
Feb 18, 2024•29 min•Ep. 4
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.
Feb 17, 2024•30 min•Ep. 3
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 comprehensive glossary is The Greenwood Dictionary of Education (Collins & O’Brien, 2011). A sample of specialty glossaries are available online: ● disabilities ( https://www.washington.edu/doit/glossary-disab...
Feb 17, 2024•27 min•Ep. 2
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 must also the language used to describe and define them. This glossary is useful for the wide field of educators involved with promoting student success. It provides precise language and definitions to ...
Feb 16, 2024•21 min•Ep. 1
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 debates. The language used in policies, legislation, media, social media, public debates, and private conversations often protect the enfranchised and privileged. To reverse these systems of power and priv...
Jun 04, 2023•2 min
