Editors
| Co-Editors: | Emily Lardner, The Evergreen State College |
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| Gillies Malnarich, The Evergreen State College | |
| Managing Editor: | Rachel Burke, The Evergreen State College |
Learning Communities Research and Practice (LCRP) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, researchers, administrators, and students to share current research, effective practices, critical reflections, and resources related to student learning communities in higher education. The purpose of LCRP is to promote practices and knowledge that strengthen the learning communities field.
LCRP (ISSN pending) is hosted by The Evergreen State College’s Washington Center, the National Resource Center for Learning Communities.
Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1 (2013)
Editorial
Why a Journal? Why Now?
Emily Lardner and Gillies Malnarich
Research
Becoming Responsible Learners: Community Matters
Janice A. Wiersema, Barbara L. Licklider, and Larry Ebbers
Case Managers and the Freshman Academy Learning Community: The Results of Involving a Variety of Campus Personnel in First-Year Student Mentoring
Gail Summerskill and Cathy Jones
How Do Learning Communities Affect First-Year Latino Students?
Juan Carlos Huerta and Jennifer J. Bray
Assessing Student Work to Support Curriculum Development: An Engineering Case Study
Kevin Saunders, Thomas Brumm, Corly Brooke, Steve Mickelson, and Steve Freeman
Juggling and the Art of the Integrative Assignment
Lynn Dunlap and Larry Sult
Using Faculty Learning Communities to Link FYE and High-Risk Core Courses: A Pilot Study
Mo Cuevas, Kendra Campbell, Russell D. Lowery-Hart, Jessica Mallard, and Amy Andersen
Attitudinal Outcomes of a Multicultural Learning Community Experience: A Qualitative Analysis
Michael W. Firmin, Susan C. Warner, Ruth L. Firmin, Courtney B. Johnson, and Stephanie D. Firebaugh
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Learning Community Course Design to Improve the Math Performance of First-Year Students
Michele J. Hansen, Susan Meshulam, and Brooke Parker
Improving the Success of Transfer Students: Responding to Risk Factors
Charisse T.M. Coston, Vivian B. Lord, and Jack S. Monell
Practices from the Field
Micro-strategies: Small Steps Toward Improved Retention
Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu and Lee Burdette Williams
Beyond "Parallel Play": Creating a Realistic Model of Integrative Learning with Community College Freshmen
Evelyn Burg, Marisa Klages, and Patricia Sokolski
Grading the Group: QUANTA 2.0 and the Peer Review
Casey Blanton, Michael Flota, and Frank Gunshanan
Learning Community Assessment 101 - Best Practices
Juan Carlos Huerta and Michele J. Hansen
Pulling it Together: Using Integrative Assignments as Empirical Direct Measures of Student Learning for Learning Community Program Assessment
Juan Carlos Huerta and Rita Sperry