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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Academic goals"”.
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Childhood Adversity: Measurement And Impacts On Academic Goals And Outcomes
… 3 explored the role of adversity in adolescents’ goals for their academic futures and its relation to their actual educational outcomes. In the study described in Chapter 2, adolescents generated personal goals and rated each goal on support for and likelihood of achieving it. Controlling for …
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Exploring the impact of library instruction on the Human Sciences Research Council staff, in support of achieving their research and academic goals
… in support of achieving their research and academic goals. The study used a mixed methods sequential explanatory design, which consisted of two separate phases: quantitative data collection followed by qualitative data collection. The researcher surveyed the HSRC staff members, by using two …
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Goal orientation and alcohol use during the transition to college
… promoting the salience of first-year students' academic goals. Students were randomly assigned to set academic goals or no goals (control) at the start of the fall 2014 semester. Alcohol-related cognitions, past-month alcohol use, negative consequences of drinking, self-control, goal importance, …
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When the goal is to be less stressed: a naturalistic investigation of academic and self-care goal completion
… students, with stress generally being related to academic success and posing a challenge for academic goals and self-care behaviors. Individual difference factors such as resilience and need for cognition may impact this stress experience as well as academic and self-care behaviors. Prior to the …
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The influence of career-related motivation on academic success
… of career insight, identity, and resilience, and academic success of undergraduate students at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. Influences on the development of these career and academic motivations were also studied. Furthermore, the study assessed the relationship between career-related …
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Disability Related Services Needs and Satisfactions of University Students: An Exploratory Study
… which best assist in student achievement of academic goals; and research ODS personnel's perception of quality and quantity of services, adequacy of resources, satisfaction of students with services rendered, job satisfaction, and suggested areas of improvement and policy change.
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The Effects of Goal Difficulty and Self-Evaluation on Mood
… self-evaluation on mood over the course of an academic semester. Participants were divided into two groups. One group was asked to set "very diffcult" academic goals, while the other group was asked to set "realistic" academic goals. Half of the participants within each of these groups were …
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Goals and Objectives of Successful Adult-Degree-Completion Students in the School of Continuing Studies at East Tennessee State University.
… researcher's intent was to examine the initial academic goals and objectives of successful adult-degree completers in 4 baccalaureate-degree programs at East Tennessee State University. Although there has been much written about adult motivation to re-enter formal education, there have been few …
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Teacher Attitudes Regarding Interactions With 8th Grade Students
… they do regarding their students outside their academic needs. Eight 8th grade teachers and two middle school administrators from the same urban Midwestern middle school were interviewed to determine what strategies were being used and what the needs of the staff were regarding building and …
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Outcomes of Supplemental Instruction for History 1310 and 1320 at Southwest Texas State University
… on the effectiveness of SI in achieving student academic goals, enhancing student performance in difficult entry level college classes and impacting the success of students with varying abilities. This study corroborated previous research (Arendale & Martin, 1994; Dochen, Smith & Wayment, 1995; …
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The Role of Optimism and Vision on the Framing of Approach and Avoidance Goals
… goal characteristics. Overall, students set academic goals in an approach direction. The most significant finding was that individual differences of optimism, general self-efficacy, and well-being had positive relationships with goal characteristics of goal self-efficacy and commitment for …
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College Transition Programs for Community College Students
… students are as likely to complete their academic goals as their prepared counterparts if they are able to complete their remedial course work. This study examined the effects of a summer bridge transition program designed to help student prepare for their first term of college. Three …
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Exploring Third Grader Students' Perceptions of School Success
… school success and that interface with the academic goals of schools. These programs should help students develop skills to aid in the learning process. In addition, school counselors, who fully implement a comprehensive guidance and counseling program, can contribute to positive student …
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Development planning for higher education facilities in a developing country : a case study of Saudi Arabia.
… of higher education in three areas: - academic requirements - physical f ac ilities - economic programmes Within each of these three areas there is a need to ma ke pl anned change normal in an institution. Id eas for c a mpus growth or change can be ge nerated from a simula tion of …
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Consistency-Fit and the Impact of Self-Awareness on Retrospective Regret
… who behaved in manners inconsistent with their academic goals or their trait levels of conscientiousness would experience more regret than those participants who behaved in ways that were consistent with these tendencies. A series of ANOVA and regression analyses were conducted in order to …
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Where to Play?: How Student-Athletes Perceive the College Choice Process
… athletic program and their commitment to academic performance. Overall, participants were satisfied with their college choice process and felt they identified the institution that fit their personal and academic goals.</p>
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College Students' Well Being: The Role Of Parent-college Student Expectation Discrepancies And Communication
… College students often set social and academic goals according to their perception of what their parents expect from them. The discrepancy between college students' performance and their perceptions of parents' expectations can impact their quality of life. The purpose of this study was …
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The impact of the pre-college high school program AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) on Millville Senior High School students' success in college
… focused on family and parental support, academic persistence, college preparation, and AVID reflections. The second part of the study involved conducting a focus group interview in order to gather more data on the students' experiences in the AVID program and their reflections on its …
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The effect of setting academic and behavioural goals on the mathematics performance of the University of Namibia Science Foundation programme.
… of Namibia is also caught up in this universal academic problem. This study intended to find the effect of setting academic and behavioural goals in the Science Foundation programme of the University of Namibia. In this study Foundation students had to set academic and behavioural goals they …
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Schools deciding the purpose of education: Policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform
… towards pursuing an expansion in the range of goals to pursue, revaluing the social and personal development purposes of education. Efforts to develop educational policy based on a broader approach to education are increasingly emerging. These new goal-expanding policies are installed on top of …
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