Community college students who borrow up to $1,999 in student loans during their first two years of community college complete 17% fewer academic credits in that same time period than their peers who take out $2,000 to $3,999 in loans or do not take out any loans at all. This finding and more were published in a new study out today in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (a SAGE Publishing journal).
Los Angeles, CA. A new SAGE white paper out today reveals the types of educational videos that appeal to students and where they go to find them. Titled "Great Expectations: Students and Video in Higher Education," the paper includes suggestions for librarians as they connect the video resources found in their libraries with researchers, instructors, and students.
A new study finds that college students with disabilities binge drink more often than their non-disabled student peers. The study, providing the first picture of alcohol use and binge drinking by US college students with disabilities, is out today in Public Health Reports, a SAGE Publishing journal and the official journal of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service.
Los Angeles, CA - With so much attention to curriculum and teaching skills to improve student achievement, it may come as a surprise that something as simple as how a classroom looks could actually make a difference in how students learn. A new analysis finds that the design and aesthetics of school buildings and classrooms has surprising power to impact student learning and success. The paper is published today in the inaugural issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS).
Los Angeles, CA - With so much attention to curriculum and teaching skills to improve student achievement, it may come as a surprise that something as simple as how a classroom looks could actually make a difference in how students learn. A new analysis finds that the design and aesthetics of school buildings and classrooms has surprising power to impact student learning and success. The paper is published today in the inaugural issue of Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS).
SAGE Publishing and Gold Leaf partner on major study to provide insight into the UK higher education pedagogical environment
Based on forthcoming SAGE Publishing book, American Government: Stories of a Nation, by Scott Abernathy
SAGE Publishing, an independent publisher of preeminent learning material created in partnership with expert authors, today announces a new option for students to access SAGE content early and at a lower cost. Labeled “inclusive access,” the program allows students to pay a significantly discounted fee for digital and print course materials such as textbooks and ancillary course content that they can access on or before the first day of class.
SAGE Publishing announces a partnership with Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), a statewide academic library consortium, to give students access to discounted e-Textbooks. With the new agreement, students will pay an average of $29 per eBook, saving more than 60% per title.
Addressing Harry Potter, Mean Girls, and other pop-culture references, the new text Social Psychology takes a storytelling approach to teaching the science of how people influence each other’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Written by award-winning teacher-researchers Thomas Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend, the text is available now from SAGE Publishing.
“Each topic in this book is important because it is relevant to thousands, if not millions of people,” writes Heinzen and Goodfriend.
SAGE Publishing is a global independent academic and professional publisher of journals, textbooks, reference books and databases. This month sees the company branching out from its usual publishing programme to release its first ever textbook written in the form of a novel with graphic elements.
