Open AccessLearning to Leap
Author(s) -
Deborah Mixson-Brookshire,
Stephanie Foote,
Donald Brookshire
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of college orientation and transition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-4535
pISSN - 1534-2263
DOI - 10.24926/jcotr.v21i1.2862
Subject(s) - experiential learning , psychology , perception , mathematics education , self esteem , point (geometry) , medical education , pedagogy , social psychology , medicine , mathematics , geometry , neuroscience
This article describes the effect of participation in experiential activities in a first-year seminar on students’ perceptions of self-esteem and academic performance in their first semester at Kennesaw State University. Findings suggest that student participants had greater levels of self-esteem and achieved higher grade point averages than their peers who were in first-year seminars that were not experientially oriented. The article concludes with strategies for instructors to use to purposefully incorporate experiential learning into a first-year seminar.