Prioritizing Reflection and Integrative Learning in First-Year Seminar Courses

First-Year Seminar (FYS) or First-Year Experience (FYE) courses help college students transition to college, learn valuable academic skills, and create successful habits. This research analyzes the benefit of reorganizing FYS curriculum around reflection and integrative learning, by comparing students who participated in this redesigned curriculum with those who participated in a skills-based, extended orientation first-year seminar course. The two groups were compared on several measures, including perception about the utility of reflective and integrative thinking, first year retention, and first year GPA. Our findings suggest that prioritizing reflection and integrative learning in a FYS seminar is beneficial.

Prototype Application Multimedia Learning for Teaching Basic English

English is a language that must be known all-digital era at this time where almost all information is in English, ranging from kindergarten to college learn English. elementary school is now also there are learning and to help introduce English is prototype application recogni-tion of common words in English and can be updated dynamically so that updates occur information to new words and sentences in Eng-lish to be introduced to students.

Algebraic Formulas For Areas Between Curves

Korean secondary school students preparing for college learn about the existence of a simple algebraic formula for finding the area bounded by a parabola and a line. This approach does not seem to be well known among American students. Whereas the derivations of formulas developed in this paper rely on integration by parts, algebra students could use the formulas without proofs.