caa a22 4500 445327057 CHVBK 20180317142724.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11162-010-9190-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11162-010-9190-3 Rocconi Louis The University of Memphis, 217 Administration Building, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut The Impact of Learning Communities on First Year Students' Growth and Development in College [Elektronische Daten] [Louis Rocconi] This study investigated the direct and indirect relationships between participating in a learning community, student engagement, and self-reported learning outcomes. Using a sample of 241 freshmen at a single urban research university who took the College Student Experiences Questionnaire, the results indicate that after controlling for demographic characteristics and entering composite ACT score, the relationship between learning community participation and learning outcomes are mediated by students' levels of engagement. Learning community participation was not directly related to educational gains but was indirectly related to educational gains through student engagement. Student engagement in turn was strongly related to educational gains. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2010 Learning communities nationallicence Student engagement nationallicence Student development nationallicence Quality of effort nationallicence College Student Experiences Questionnaire nationallicence Educational gains nationallicence Learning outcomes nationallicence Research in Higher Education Springer Netherlands 52/2(2011-03-01), 178-193 0361-0365 52:2<178 2011 52 11162 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-010-9190-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-010-9190-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rocconi Louis The University of Memphis, 217 Administration Building, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Springer Netherlands 52/2(2011-03-01), 178-193 0361-0365 52:2<178 2011 52 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer