The College Classroom as a Community: Impact on Student Attitudes and Learning

By J. P. McKinney, Kathleen McKinney, Renae Franiuk, John H. Schweitzer. 2006

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The effects of an academic environment intervention on science identification among women in STEM (2013, background): “For example, college students’ perceptions of the academic environment are related to their persistence in higher education (Gloria and Ho 2003) and exam performance (McKinney et al. 2006).”
Instructor–Student and Student–Student Rapport in the Classroom (2010, background): “Further, McKinney et al. (2006) found that a sense of connectedness in a college classroom was related to both self-reported learning and objective exam performance.”
Perceptions of campus climate, academic efficacy and academic success among community college students: an ethnic comparison (2009, background): “McKinney et al. (2006) studied the impact of developing a classroom community on student attitudes and behaviors, and results indicated that an enhanced sense of community was associated with a variety of outcome variables including students’ performance on exams.”
Group Work Can Be Gratifying: Understanding & Overcoming Resistance to Cooperative Learning (2010, background): “To develop students’ social skills, researchers have suggested simple team-building exercises on the first day of class (Oakley et al. 2004; Caulfield and Persell 2006; McKinney et al. 2006) and the use of written instructions about group operations and processes.”
Connected Classroom Climate: A Validity Study (2009, background): “, 2001) and sense of community and enjoyment of a course (r1⁄4 .42; McKinney et al., 2006).”