A case study based on a course project conducted by four graduate students in the Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (OPWL) department in the College of Engineering will be published in the Performance Improvement Journal.
In this project, Elyse Taylor, Educational Access Center, and fellow OPWL graduate students Erin Callahan, Kristen Pinta and Leah Yeatts, investigated challenges faced by undergraduate deaf students at Boise State. The assessment was prompted by lower-than-desired rates of success by deaf students in their undergraduate studies. The team discovered that gaps in resources and a lack of collaborative learning opportunities for deaf students accounted for a sizable part of the gap in deaf students’ success.
In addition to their article, which will appear in the August or September issue of Performance Improvement, a report documenting their work and recommendations for addressing the gaps have been submitted to university administrators for consideration.
The project was completed in Don Winiecki’s OPWL529 Needs Assessment course.
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