Another Look at High-Impact Practices in Teacher Education: Linking Practices With Engagement

• In Event: Agency, Impact, and Liberation: Reflection and Practice in Teacher Education

Abstract

High-Impact Practices (HIPs) are teaching and learning practices in higher education that promote student engagement and learning as measured on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). This mixed methods study explored the extent to which prior findings on the relationship between HIPs and student engagement could be confirmed with a different sample of students and faculty in a teacher preparation program. The current study further sought to understand the extent to which faculty members’ design of activities related to HIPs engaged students in the manner they intended. While some discrepancies between faculty’s design of activities and their reported effects on engagement were noted, most of the activities employed by faculty promoted engagement as intended.

Authors

• Katya Koubek, James Madison University

• Raymond Rodriguez