Program Evaluation
We emphasize evaluation, continuous improvement, and research-based programming. Our data suggest that, on the whole, students who engage in ASLA programming make gains in conceptual understanding, course performance, and approaches to study and learning.
Browse some of our research and evaluation projects for more information:
- Among friends: The role of academic-preparedness diversity in individual performance within a small-group STEM learning environment
- Beyond Grades: Improving College Students' Social-Cognitive Outcomes in STEM Through a Collaborative Learning Environment
- Developing an instrument to characterize peer-led groups in collaborative learning environments: Assessing problem-solving approach and group interaction
- Making scientists: Six principles for effective college teaching
- Small fish in a small pond: The impact of collaborative learning on academic success for less-prepared students in a highly selective environment
- Reliance to Independence: Approaches to learning in peer-led undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workshops
- Small-group learning in undergraduate STEM disciplines: Effect of group type on student achievement.
- Undergraduates leading undergraduates: Peer facilitation in a science workshop program
- Worrying about what others think: A social comparison–concern intervention in small learning groups