Student as Partners Models

Students’ voices, perspectives, experiences and contributions are integral to EaSEIL initiative. We are using a students as partners approach (Bovil et al., 2011) as an opportunity to learn with and from students to inform pedagogical change.  

These partnerships take different shapes:  

• Students partner with the EaSEIL leadership/faculty developers as leaders or co-developers for instructor resources (example). 
• Students partner with EaSEIL leadership/instructors to co-develop and co-design curricular materials and resources ( example 1; example 2).
• Students partner in a consultant role bringing their experiences as students to inform instructor and faculty developer decision making ( example 1a; example 1b).

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Impacts of student as partners programs

In addition to the co-production with student partners, EaSEIL researches the impact of the students as partners model on student participants. Some publications about this work:

Lukes L., Rocha, L. (2025). Testing Students as Partners Theory: Science and Engineering Students’ Perspectives on a Students as Partner Consultant Model for Supporting an Instructor-Centered Curriculum Development Community of Practice. International Journal for Students as Partners. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v9i2.5951.

Rocha et al., (2023). Impact of an advisory role students as partners model in a field-based science learning curriculum development initiative. Poster presented at GSA Annual meeting, Pittsburgh, USA.

Lukes et al (2023). Designing a collaborative faculty-student mentoring model in a large, complex science curriculum development team project. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 175, Special issue: Nurturing the faculty-student mentoring dynamic in higher Education, 61-70.urgh, USA.