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Overview

John M. Braxton is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a strong emphasis on education. Within this broad field, Braxton's work covers subfields such as education, political science and international relations, social psychology, information systems and management, and molecular biology.

Their publications concentrate on several key topics including:

  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Higher Education Practises and Engagement
  • Reflective Practices in Education
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Online and Blended Learning

Recent publications by Braxton include:

  • "The Use of Google Scholar for Tenure and Promotion Decisions" (2022), published in Innovative Higher Education
  • "What We Talk about When We Talk about Rigor: Examining Conceptions of Academic Rigor" (2021), published in The Journal of Higher Education
  • "Community College Faculty Engagement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning" (2021), published in New Directions for Community Colleges
  • "Understanding Student Persistence in Commuter Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (2020), published in Journal of College Student Development
  • "Defining the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)" (2024), published in New Directions for Student Services

Braxton frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • New Directions for Student Services
  • Innovative Higher Education
  • New Directions for Teaching and Learning
  • Blood
  • New Directions for Higher Education

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with:

  • Ann M. Gansemer-Topf
  • Dawn Lyken-Segosebe
  • Laila McCloud
  • Claire Howell Major
  • Jean A. Yared

Best Publications

  • Student Success in College: Creating Conditions That Matter

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  • Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle

    John M. Braxton

  • The Influence of Active Learning on the College Student Departure Process: Toward a Revision of Tinto's Theory

    John M. Braxton;Jeffrey F. Milem;Anna Shaw Sullivan

  • REVISING TINTO'S INTERACTIONALIST THEORY OF STUDENT DEPARTURE THROUGH THEORY ELABORATION: Examining the Role of Organizational Attributes in the Persistence Process

    Joseph B. Berger;John M. Braxton

  • The Impact of Service-Learning on College Students

    Janet Eyler;Dwight E. Giles;John Braxton

  • Understanding and reducing college student departure

    John M. Braxton;Amy S. Hirschy;Shederick A. McClendon

  • Tinto's Separation Stage and Its Influence on First-Semester College Student Persistence.

    Susan A. Elkins;John M. Braxton;Glenn W. James

  • Expectations for College and Student Persistence.

    John M. Braxton;Nick Vesper;Don Hossler

  • Rethinking College Student Retention

    John M. Braxton;William R. Doyle;Harold V. Hartley;Amy S. Hirschy

  • The Viability of Academic Integration as a Central Construct in Tinto’s Interactionalist Theory of College Student Departure

    John M. Braxton;Leigh A. Lien

  • The Fostering of Social Integration and Retention through Institutional Practice

    John M. Braxton;Shederick A. McClendon

  • The role of active learning in college student persistence

    John M. Braxton;Willis A. Jones;Amy S. Hirschy;Harold V. Hartley

  • Faculty Teaching Skills and Their Influence on the College Student Departure Process

    John M. Braxton;Nathaniel J. Bray;Joseph B. Berger

  • Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship through Boyer's Four Domains. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.

    John M. Braxton;William Luckey;Patricia Helland

  • Melding Organizational and Interactional Theories of Student Attrition: A Path Analytic Study

    John M. Braxton;Ellen M. Brier

  • Faculty misconduct in collegiate teaching

    John M. Braxton;Alan E. Bayer

  • Powerful Institutional Levers to Reduce College Student Departure

    John M. Braxton;Meaghan E. Mundy

  • Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship Through Boyer's Four Domains

    John M. Braxton;William Luckey;Patricia Helland

  • The influence of stress-related coping strategies on college student departure decisions.

    Nathaniel J. Bray;John M. Braxton;Anna Shaw Sullivan

  • Contrasting perspectives on the relationship between teaching and research

    John M. Braxton

  • Tinto's Separation Stage and Its Influence on First-Semester College Student Persistence. AIR 1998 Annual Forum Paper.

    Susan A. Elkins;John M. Braxton;Glenn W. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Berger
Joseph Berger University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ernest T. Pascarella
Ernest T. Pascarella University of Iowa
Linda Serra Hagedorn
Linda Serra Hagedorn Iowa State University
Amaury Nora
Amaury Nora The University of Texas at San Antonio
Patrick T. Terenzini
Patrick T. Terenzini Pennsylvania State University

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