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Hands-on See inquiry/hands-on/discovery

Hands-on learning Learning by doing. See http://ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/science/eric/eric-1.htm for more information.

High-risk Students in danger of not passing a course or completing a program and in need of extra support by faculty. Students with class or grade-point averages of D or F are often considered high-risk.

Higher order thinking skills Higher order thinking skills derive from Bloom's Taxonomy, which identified six levels of thinking/learning. From lowest to highest the levels are: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Higher order thinking skills are complex combinations of these skills. Outcomes were coded as higher order thinking skills if the results were presented in terms of complex or advanced thinking skills.

Humanities This category includes humanities disciplines that served as the context or subject matter for an engineering-related course in which an intervention took place.

Hypertext/hypermedia Text or multimedia with hyperlinks to connect it to other text or media.

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