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How the Eight Key Elements Align with High-Impact Practices (HIPs)
The following lists the eight key elements and provides explanations as to how each key element aligns to high-impact practices:
Key Element |
How It Aligns With HIPs |
|---|---|
| Performance expectations set at appropriately high levels. |
All HIPs involve setting high standards for student performance, requiring critical thinking, problem-solving, and the application of knowledge. |
| Significant investment of time and effort by students over an extended period of time. |
HIPs like undergraduate research, internships, and capstone projects require sustained effort and engagement. |
| Interactions with faculty and peers about substantive matters. | Learning communities, writing-intensive courses, and collaborative assignments promote ongoing dialogue and interaction on significant topics. |
| Experiences with diversity, wherein students are exposed to and must contend with people and circumstances that differ from those with which students are familiar. | Diversity/global learning and service learning/community-based learning directly expose students to diverse environments and challenges. |
| Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback. | Writing-intensive courses and undergraduate research often involve regular feedback loops between students and instructors. |
| Periodic, structured opportunities to reflect and integrate learning. |
ePortfolios and capstone projects provide structured reflection on accumulated knowledge and skills. |
| Opportunities to discover relevance of learning through real-world applications. | Internships, service learning, and community-based learning connect classroom learning with practical, real-world applications. |
| Public demonstration of competence. |
Capstone courses, projects, and ePortfolios often culminate in public presentations or demonstrations of students' acquired skills and knowledge. |
The Comparison of HIPs and Eight Key Elements Table (Mackh, 2021) illustrates the relationship between the eleven HIPs and the Eight Key Elements.