David Arendale
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At the University of Minnesota, I serve as an Associate Professor in History & Higher Education and Manager of the Educational Opportunity Association (EOA) Best Education Practices Clearinghouse. My home academic department is Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Human Development. I teach an undergraduate global history course and conduct workshops for educators to embed best practices of student engagement, enrichment, and academic support. The EOA Clearinghouse identifies, validates, and disseminates best practices to increase persistence and academic achievement of historically underrepresented students.
My scholarly work is expressed through four research projects: (a) academic access, developmental education, and learning assistance; (b) learning technologies; (c) postsecondary peer cooperative learning groups; and (d) Universal Design for Learning. These are not mutually exclusive to each other since effective practices often are found at the crossroads of these four projects. A central theme is improving academic success of historically underrepresented students.
We do not need to "reinvent the wheel" regarding best education practices. Instead, we must effectively communicate what already exists to others. I welcome your thoughts and comments about my work and would enjoy the opportunity to collaborate. Take care, David Arendale (arendale@umn.edu; http://Arendale.org)
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Item 2019 Postsecondary Peer Cooperative Learning Program Bibliography Overview [Video, 14:23](2020-03) Arendale, DavidThis video provides an overview of the 2020 Postsecondary Peer Cooperative Learning Program Bibliography. It contains 1,550+ publications and research studies on all the major national and international postsecondary peer assisted learning programs: Emerging Scholars Program, Peer-led Team Learning, Peer Assisted Learning Program, Structured Learning Assistance, Supplemental Instruction/PASS, and Video-based Supplemental Instruction. The website to download the document is https://z.umn.edu/peerbibItem 2020 Draft course-based learning assistance best practice guides (3rd ed.)(2020-01-01) Arendale, DavidCourse-Based Learning Assistance (CLA) is defined as peer cooperative learning assistance that accompanies a specific targeted course to serve as a supplement for that course. While many CLA activities operate outside of the course, CLA is integrated into the course by some instructors. Other CLA programs are hybrid or totally online. These guidelines are applicable to national and international CLA program models have been implemented at thousands of postsecondary and tertiary institutions in more than thirty countries (a) Emerging Scholars Program, (b) Peer-Led Team, (c) Structured Learning Assistance, (d) Supplemental Instruction, and (e) Video-based Supplemental Instruction). When using the CLA Guides, it is not expected that administrators of campus CLA programs implement every “essential” and “recommended” practice listed in this guide. Some “essential” practices are not relevant to a particular type of CLA program. Limitations of campus budget, personnel, and available time make other “essential” practices difficult to implement. “Recommended” practices are simply practices that some CLA program administrators have found helpful. Therefore, those practices have been separated from the “essential” ones. For simplicity’s sake, all the practices have been divided into these two categories. Some “recommended” practices could be categorized as aspirational, something to pursue if there is sufficient budget, personnel, and time to implement. The bottom line is that the purpose of the guides is not to judge existing programs, but rather to provide guidance and practices that could increase their effectiveness and efficiency. In addition to their use for academic study groups, these guides may be useful for faculty members to incorporate learning activities and pedagogies into their courses. The administrative and education best practices in this publication have been reviewed and approved by multiple members of an external expert panel of qualified reviewers. Educators need to investigate these education practices to discover effective learning practices that can be adapted and adopted for use in supporting higher student achievement, closing the achievement gap, increasing persistence to graduation, and meeting the needs of culturally-diverse and historically-underrepresented students. Updates to this set of guidelines are available at https://www.arendale.org/peer-learning-resourcesItem 2020 Draft glossary of essential terms for learning assistance and developmental education (4th ed.)(2020-01) Arendale, DavidThe purpose of this glossary was to identify and describe education practices that improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented college students. Keeping current with the rapid changes in the field of developmental education and learning assistance is essential. Words make a difference in policy discussions and the practical guidance of campus activities. The rapid changes in learning pedagogies, delivery systems for courses, and language use evoke strong emotions for many within the profession, including those involved with this glossary. It may not be our choice to change, but this glossary is our response to the rapidly–morphing landscape of postsecondary education, our field in particular, and the larger society in which we live. In this fourth edition of the glossary, one area that has been significantly expanded is vocabulary related to culturally sensitive pedagogies that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s. Examples of these include: critical literacy, critical pedagogy, cultural competence, cultural differences, cultural literacy, cultural sensitivity, culturally relevant pedagogy, culturally responsive pedagogy, culturally sustaining pedagogy, inclusion, inclusive pedagogy, multicultural developmental education, multicultural education, and social justice. The second new area in this edition are approaches for offering the curriculum other than the traditional academic term-length developmental-level course. Examples of these include accelerated developmental-level course, acceleration, acceleration through curricular redesign, acceleration through mainstreaming, college access, compensatory education, compressed developmental-level course (or skills instruction), contextualization or contextualized learning, co-requisite paired course, course redesign, differentiated placement, embedded academic support, emporium-style model, flipped classroom, gateway course, Gateways to Completion®, guided pathways, integrated reading and writing, modular instruction, non-course competency-based option (Texas), nontraditional model (Texas), stacked course, stretched course, and students as partners. The third area for glossary expansion are those related to academic integrity and intellectual property rights. These were written in a more accessible style than the formal definitions from law reference works. Technologies such as text scanners, photocopiers, printers, and downloadable files from the Internet have made it easier to make mistakes with use of copyrighted instructional materials both for use in the classroom as well as placement on the Internet for use by others. Examples of these terms include attribution of intellectual property, copyright, copyright infringement, Creative Commons licenses, ethical standards, inadvertent use of copyrighted material, instructional materials, intellectual property use copyright, liability exposure, literary property, literary property use copyright, plagiarism, professional liability coverage, open access, open educational resource (OER), and public domain. A fourth significant change for this edition is its scrupulous avoidance of deficit and less acceptable language to describe students. In this edition, asset-based language is used to reflect accurately our students and their capabilities. Throughout history, it is words and phrases have been replaced by newer ones. The older words become less acceptable since they can lead to misinterpretations or have become by today’s standards of usage as inaccurate or perceived by others as discriminatory or racist. This glossary does not make judgements of the authors using those terms. Popular and professional literature is filled with those phrases. However, we move forward with recommended language that is more accurate, affirms student capabilities, and avoids offense to others. Examples of these deficit and less acceptable language includes academically underprepared student, college-level student, developmental student, diverse student, high-risk student, majority or minority student, person/student of color, remedial student, and special population. (Method) The sample for the glossary is based on the previous three editions of the same glossary with new terms added with this document. The glossary terms have been reviewed and approved by multiple members of an external expert panel of qualified reviewers. All of them have served as administrators of their campus developmental education and learning assistance programs. Their practical experiences and keen insights have made this set of glossary terms invaluable in the rapidly changing nature of postsecondary and tertiary education. We owe much to the dedication and expertise of the authors, editors, and external review teams of the first three editions of this glossary. [This directory is a revised and expanded version of ED589760.]Item 2021 Postsecondary Peer Cooperative Learning Programs: Annotated Bibliography(2021-01-31) Arendale, David RThis annotated bibliography does not attempt to be inclusive of this broad field of literature concerning peer collaborative learning. Instead, it is focused intentionally on a subset of the educational practice that shares a common focus with increasing student persistence towards graduation. At the end of this overview, several suggestions are made for differentiating the models from each other and the level of institutional resources and resolve with implementing them. The seven student peer learning programs included in this bibliography meet the following characteristics: (a) implemented at the postsecondary or tertiary level; (b) clear set of systematic procedures for its implementation that could be replicated by another institution; (c) program evaluation studies have been conducted and are available for review; (d) intentionally embeds learning strategy practice along with review of the academic content material; (e) outcomes include increased content knowledge, higher final course grades, higher pass rates, and higher college persistence rates; and (f) the program has been replicated at another institution with similar positive student outcomes. From a review of the professional literature, six programs emerged: (a) Accelerated Learning Groups (ALGs), (b) Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), (c) Peer Assisted Learning (PAL), (d) Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL), (e) Structured Learning Assistance (SLA), (f) Supplemental Instruction-PASS (SI-PASS), and (g) Video-based Supplemental Instruction (VSI). As will be described in the following narrative, some of the programs share common history and seek to improve upon previous practices. Other programs were developed independently.Item 2022 Annotated Bibliography of Postsecondary Peer Cooperative Learning Programs(2022-12-31) Arendale, David R.This annotated bibliography does not attempt to be inclusive of this broad field of literature concerning peer collaborative learning. Instead, it is focused intentionally on a subset of the educational practice that shares a common focus with increasing student persistence toward graduation. From a review of the professional literature, nine programs emerged: (a) Accelerated Learning Groups (ALGs, USC Model), (b) Emerging Scholars Program (ESP, UC Berkeley; Treisman Model), (c) Embedded Peer Educator (EPE), (d) Learning Assistant (LA, CU Boulder Model), (e) Peer Assisted Learning (PAL, UMN Model), (f) Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL, CUNY Model), (g) Structured Learning Assistance (SLA, FSU Model), (h) Supplemental Instruction-PASS (SI-PASS, UMKC Model), and (i) Video-based Supplemental Instruction (VSI, UMKC Model). As will be described in the following narrative, some of the programs share common history and seek to improve upon previous practices. Other programs were developed independently.Item 2023 Course-Based Learning Assistance: Best Practice Guide for Academic Support Program Design and Improvement(International College Learning Centers Association, 2023) Arendale, David RThe Course-based Learning Assistance (CLA) Best Practice Guide is a generic resource for various peer cooperative learning assistance approaches. It is most applicable to programs that specifically target a course to supplement it and help students to earn higher grades and persist toward graduation. This Guide has a variety of purposes: (a) provide guidance for creating a new program; (b) revise an existing peer study group program; (c) conduct a self-evaluation of an existing program; and (d) serve as a blueprint for short and long-term strategic planning and action plans. It is not expected nor reasonable to expect any peer learning program could implement all the items within this guide. The Guide writing team realizes that programs have limitations of budget, personnel, time, and professional judgment regarding the implementation of this guide. Some readers of this Guide may see the contained policies and practices as “good ideas” to consider for improving their program. In addition to their use for academic study groups, this Guide may be useful for faculty members to incorporate learning activities and pedagogies into their courses. This Guide is published by the Alliance for Postsecondary Academic Support Programs and the National College Learning Centers Association. The Alliance is a writing group of experts in the field of student success that have been producing guides to practice, making conference presentations, facilitating webinars, conducting certification programs, and consulting with institutions since the 1980s. The National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) represents a diverse body of educators who are dedicated to promoting excellence among learning center personnel. To that end, it is imperative to recognize and celebrate that our members are as diverse as the students we are called to serveItem 2023 EOA national best practices clearinghouse directory. (7th ed.).(Educational Opportunity Association, 2023) Arendale, David RThe EOA National Best Practices Clearinghouse identifies, validates, and disseminates practical activities and approaches to improve the success of students who are low-income, first-generation, and historically underrepresented in education. Rather than looking to others for solutions, the federally funded TRIO and GEAR-UP grant programs have the expertise needed. The key is sharing it more widely and comprehensively with each other. The co-sponsors for the Clearinghouse are EOA and the University of Minnesota. The Clearinghouse defines best education practices as “the wide range of individual activities, policies, and programmatic approaches to achieve positive changes in student attitudes or academic behaviors.” The administrative and education best practices in this publication have been reviewed and approved by multiple members of an external expert panel of qualified reviewers. Each practice has been approved as promising, validated, or exe plary based on the level of evidence supporting it. The rigorous standards applied during the review process are similar to previous national evaluation efforts by the U.S. Department of Education. More information about the rigorous standards and the external expert panel is contained in the Appendix of this publication. Th practices approved thus far by the EOA Clearinghouse represent each of the five major TRIO grant programs: Educational Talent Search, Upward Bound, Educational Opportunity Centers, Student Support Services, and the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Programs. One practice is from a GEAR UP program. For readers unfamiliar with TRIO programs, a short history is provided on the following pages. While the education practices come from TRIO programs, they could be adapted for use with nearly any student academic support and student development program. TRIO and GEAR UP programs are incubators of best practices to serve the needs of historically underrepresented students and the general student population. Readers can use this publication as a guide for implementing the education practices contained within it. Detailed information about the education practices purposes, educational theories that guide the practice, curriculum outlines, resources needed for implementation, evaluation process, and contact information are provided by the submitters of the practice who have practical experience implementing the practices. You are encouraged to contact them for additional information.Item 2023 EOA national best practices clearinghouse library resources directory.(Educational Opportunity Association, 2023) Arendale, David RThe EOA National Best Practices Clearinghouse identifies, validates, and disseminates practical activities and approaches to improve the success of students who are low-income, first-generation, and historically underrepresented in education. Rather than looking to others for solutions, the federally funded TRIO and GEAR-UP grant programs have the expertise needed. The key is sharing it more widely and comprehensively with each other. These are practices that were contributed by TRIO and BU programs across the U.S. that they found helpful. This document is the library resource directory. The co-sponsors for the Clearinghouse are EOA and the University of Minnesota. The Clearinghouse defines best education practices as “the wide range of individual activities, policies, and programmatic approaches to achieve positive changes in student attitudes or academic behaviors.” The practices approved thus far by the EOA Clearinghouse represent each of the five major TRIO grant programs: Educational Talent Search, Upward Bound, Educational Opportunity Centers, Student Support Services, and the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Programs. One practice is from a GEAR UP program. For readers unfamiliar with TRIO programs, a short history is provided on the following pages. While the education practices come from TRIO programs, they could be adapted for use with nearly any student academic support and student development program. TRIO and GEAR UP programs are incubators of best practices to serve the needs of historically underrepresented students and the general student population. Readers can use this publication as a guide for implementing the education practices contained within it. Detailed information about the education practice's purposes, educational theories that guide the practice, curriculum outlines, resources needed for implementation, evaluation process, and contact information are provided by the submitters of the practice who have practical experience implementing the practices. You are encouraged to contact them for additional information.Item Academic and personal growth by PAL participants(New York College Learning Skills Association, 2014) Arendale, David R.; Hane, Amanda, R.This qualitative study focused on observed and perceived changes in academic and personal attitudes and behaviors by student participants in the Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) program at the University of Minnesota (UMN). The PAL model employs best practices from national peer learning models including Supplemental Instruction, Peer-led Team Learning, and Emerging Scholars Program. The PAL program provides regularly-scheduled study review sessions weekly to support students achieve higher final course grades and persistence rates. In most uses of the PAL model at UMN, participation is mandatory. Arthur Chickering’s Comprehensive Theory of Personal Change was used to analyze the data. Data were gathered by the PAL study group facilitators of observed or perceived changes of attitudes and behaviors by the participating students. Four themes emerged: higher academic engagement, higher confidence, increased interpersonal skills, and improved critical thinking skills. Higher engagement with the learning process was manifested through PAL participants talking more, displaying more comfort while speaking, and asking questions of the PAL facilitators and others in the group. Increased confidence was evidenced by reduction of frustration and fear and replaced with the display of new cognitive and metacognitive thinking, expressions of self-confidence in the ability to solve problems, and learn new academic content independently. Increased interpersonal skills were higher within the study group, helping others during small group activities and within the large group discussions, making friends with the participating students and the facilitator, and actively working with fellow students to solve problems rather than preferring self-reliance and working alone. The final theme of improved critical thinking was displayed by an increased ability to understand and explain the reasoning behind concepts. Several recommendations are offered: how study group programs could foster the academic and personal growth of study group participants and areas for further research.Item Academic bridge programs(Routledge, 2018) Arendale, David R.; Lee, Nue LorBridge programs ease the transition of students from secondary education to postsecondary institutions. They are customized to assist a particular subpopulation of students to be successful. They were originally created for students with high rates of academic difficulty and withdrawal than the general student population. Then, the focus of most bridge programs was academic preparation for increased academic rigor of college. In recent years, a variety of purposes have been added: meet the needs of culturally diverse students who are underrepresented in college, increase student success in particular college degree programs, and increase the number of students who aspire and are prepared for college. Bridge programs range from an intensive program of coordinated courses and noncredit learning experiences to a single academic term course or a workshop lasting a day or two.Item Adaptability and flexibility when conducting and planning peer study group review sessions(National College Learning Center Association, 2016) Arendale, David R.; Hane, Amanda, R.This examination of the University of Minnesota Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) program identified five themes of choices made by student leaders during and in preparation for study group review sessions: (a) redefined facilitator role beyond initial training, (b) assessed students to adapt the sessions, (c) adapted sessions to address knowledge or skill deficits of students, (d) empowered student participants to take more regulation of sessions, and (e) engaged in trial and error to add new approaches to sessions. These findings encourage a deeper understanding of beliefs, choices, and professional identity formation of peer study group review leaders. Understanding more deeply the complex process that facilitators employ to prepare for and adapt during study review sessions can guide training practices to increase their effectiveness with improving student grades in historically difficult courses.Item Antiracism glossary for education and life(Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2021) Arendale, David R; Pokhrel, Richa; Muhammad, Mursalata; Jimenez, Juan; Green, Cassandra; Felber, Sarah; Claybourne, Chardin; Atkins, WyKeshiaTo create an antiracism glossary, a team of scholars from Colleagues of Color for Social Justice (CCSJ) identified and defined 48 terms relating to racism and antiracism based on a careful review of existing race-related glossaries, scholarly articles, and widely-read books on the topic. This glossary of terms illustrates the daily and pervasive nature of racism that people of color experience and fills a demonstrable gap in resources of this type for college learning assistance centers and programs. The purpose is to recognize and explain terms related to attitudes, behaviors, and policies that impact people’s lives, particularly within academia. The glossary lists the terms in alphabetical order with multiple definitions from various resources and easy to understand examples drawn from personal lives, communities, and professional experiences in educational settingsItem Antiracist activities and policies for student-led study groups(Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2022) Arendale, David R.; Abraham, Nisha; Barber, Danette; Bekis, B.; Claybourne, C.; Edenfeld, K.; Epps, K.; Hutchinson, K.; Jimenez, Juan; Killenbeck, K.; Pokhrel, R.; Schmauch, N.; Woodruff, R.Issues of race and marginalization do not often intersect with publications related to developmental education and learning assistance. They have been spaces that ignored them these issues. This guide to antiracism policies and practices for student-led study groups is based on a careful review of scholarly articles, books, and existing guides. While much has been written about culturally-sensitive pedagogies for K-16 classroom instruction, little has emerged for guiding peer study groups regarding antiracism practices. This guide helps address this gap in the literature. In addition to its use for academic study groups, this guide is useful for faculty members to incorporate antiracism learning activities and pedagogies into their courses. This guide identifies effective learning practices that can be adapted and adopted for use in supporting higher student achievement, closing the achievement gap, increasing persistence to graduation, and meeting the needs of culturally-diverse and historically-underrepresented students.Item Antiracist study group policies and practices(2022) Arendale, David RMy talk had six sections: (a) the influence of campus culture on student persistence, (b) antiracism resources for peer study group programs, (c) selected definitions related to antiracism, (d) highlights from the guide for Course-based Learning Assistance, (e) sample of antiracism policies and practices, and (f) additional resources for peer study group programs. I shared this talk at one of the monthly professional development seminars for the peer study group leaders at the University of Texas at San Marcos.Item Arendale, D. R. (2019). [Video]. Peer group facilitator growth overview, part one of four. Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpstTaIdyI(2019) Arendale, DavidMy research investigates the potential contribution of the PAL experience to the emergence of the facilitator’s leader development of their identities and skills. If these developments occur as a result of the PAL experience, could the process for change be identified? If the process for change is understood, is it possible to be intentional about the development of the PAL facilitator?Item Best practices of developmental education for academic advisors, student services personnel, and classroom faculty members(Austin Community College of Austin, TX, 2011-10) Arendale, DavidThis keynote address explained how best practices of developmental education could be applied with academic advisors, student services personnel, and classroom faculty members. These faculty members are those that teach college-level first-year courses for academic credit. The entire faculty needs to be involved in embedding best practices of developmental education within their curriculum and pedagogy to promote higher academic success for all students.Item Best Practices of Developmental Education for Advisors, Student Services, and Classroom Faculty [Video, 2:12:35](2012) Arendale, DavidThis talk takes best education practices from developmental education and makes application for academic advisors, student services personnel, and faculty members who teach college-credit first-year courses. A holistic effort is needed to support higher academic achievement by students involving the entire campus community.Item Best practices to strengthen academic relationships with college students and a sense of belonging.(2022) Arendale, David RMy talk had six sections: (a) the influence of campus culture on student persistence, (b) antiracism resources for peer study group programs, (c) selected definitions related to antiracism, (d) highlights from the guide for Course-based Learning Assistance, (e) sample of antiracism policies and practices, and (f) additional resources for peer study group programs. I shared this talk at the annual conference for the Heartland Region for College Reading and Learning Association.Item The challenging road ahead: Learning assistance in the 21st century(College Reading and Learning Association, 2008) Arendale, DavidIn this keynote talk, I identify opportunities for increased service of learning assistance to support student academic achievement. Throughout the talk, I illustrate my points by sharing case studies of highly successful learning assistance programs operating across the U.S. The speech was delivered at the national conference for the College Reading and Learning AssociationItem Changing trends for administrative location of developmental education with an institution: A pilot study of NADE members(Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, General College, University of Minnesota, 2005) Arendale, David R.With this limited pilot study, conclusions about the data are carefully restrained. However, a couple of interesting observations can be made. Not surprisingly, the most common name of the departmental unit for NADE members is developmental education. The surprise was observing that the regular academic departments of mathematics, English, and humanities occur with such a high frequency. Boylan (2002) indicated that some shifting away from centralized developmental education units may be occurring. This preliminary study seems to confirm that among the top ten departmental names that NADE members receive their mail, only two have the words developmental education explicitly listed in their titles. It appears that centralized developmental education administrative units are becoming rare. As a pilot study, it suggests that further investigation is warranted. Some possible directions could be a more careful analysis of the original data set. Similar studies could be conducted with other professional associations in the field (e.g., College Reading and Learning Association, National College Learning Center Association). Follow-up interviews with a stratified sample of members could probe for the historic choices made concerning departmental names and whether changes have occurred in the intervening years.