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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Adult student"”.
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Adult student practitioners: a qualitative study on their personal experiences
… study centered on the experiences of ten students who have successfully completed the doctoral program of Rowan University. Data was collected through personal interviews that explored their academic backgrounds as well as their views and experiences with the coursework. This study adopted …
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Adult Student Satisfaction with Overall Learning Experiences at East Tennessee State University.
<p>This study examined adult students' perceptions of satisifaction levels within specific areas of the ETSU campus. The population surveyed included 106 undergraduate adult learners aged 25 years and older. The Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory, 4-year College and University Version was …
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The adult student decline: a study of the longterm impact of the Rowan University strategic plan
<p>Adult students are considerably different as compared to the more traditional college-aged student. Along with school work adult students must grapple with work and family responsibilities presenting many challenges and time demands. Rowan University has evolved from more of a commuter …
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Maintaining Adult Student-Parent Distal Relationships: An Explorartion of Mediated Communication Among Thai Students in the U.S.
… was, first, to explore the experience of Thai adult students who maintain LDRs with their parents. Second, this study identified Thai students’ specific relational maintenance behaviors and examined the channels of mediated communication used among Thai adult students and their family …
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Making Sense of Debt Financed Education from the Perspective of Young Adult Student Loan Borrowers: Does higher education still have value and meaning if you have to repay loans?
… the association between higher education and adult success from the perspective of young adult student loan borrowers five years after graduating. Data for both studies were drawn from the Arizona Pathways to Life Success (APLUS) project. This sample borrowed during a period of changing …
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An accessible return : identifying barriers for recruiting and retaining returning adult students at the 4-year institutional level
… education has often overlooked the undergraduate adult student population which comprises roughly 25% of the undergraduate student population in the United States. Given the decrease in traditional students entering college and the looming high school graduate enrollment cliff, the adult student …
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A Survey of the Development of the Green River Community College and the Need for a Handbook in the Adult Evening School Program
… concerned with appropriate method for the adult student.
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Do they know why they know? Student nurses’ experiences of mentors’ judgements of their clinical competence: an interpretative phenomenological study
… to the judgements made in the assessment of student nurses’ clinical competence. It is not clear in the existing literature how the subjective nature of judgements impacts on the student nurse. Aim: This research aims to explore the subjective nature of judgments of student nurse competency …
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“Mind the gap”: how a university can bridge the gap between expectations and reality for adult undergraduate students
<p>Adult undergraduate students find that returning to college is much like building a house of cards (Hardin, 2008). In this cross-sectional survey methodology study, the author focuses on the performance gap between the importance and satisfaction of adult students with a range of priorities, …
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Adult Re-Entry Students: Experiences Preceding Entry into a Rural Appalachian Community College.
<p>Over 42% of students re-entering education in the United States are age 24 or older (NCES, 2002). Community colleges offer financial, academic, and geographic accessibility making them a viable option for adults seeking to re-enter education (Cohen & Brawer, 1996).</p><p>The purpose of this …
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The Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Three Adults Returning to Piano Study
… examined the self-efficacy beliefs of three adults returning to piano study and observed the role of self-efficacy in the students' piano study experiences throughout the course of one semester. Three adult students enrolled in the Community Music School at the University of South Carolina …
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A study of the impact of instructional approach on community college students’ problem solving and metacognitive abilities in the developmental mathematics course, Introductory Algebra
… and instructional constructs that influence students’ problem solving development in a community college <em>Introductory Algebra</em> course. The study addressed the lack of success that developmental mathematics students in a community college have in the <em>Introductory Algebra</em> …
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Estudantes em Angra, mão-de-obra dos reis... : a política pública municipal para a educação de jovens e adultos de Angra dos Reis no período 2000-2004
… of its political and educational Young and Adult modality project. It takes into account to investigate the reasons that took this project, made collectively and based on the Secretaria Municipal de Educação curriculum standard, dating the last three consecutive periods of govern of the …
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THE ROLE OF SLEEP IN THE ENHANCEMENT AND IMPEDANCE OF EPISODIC EMOTIONAL MEMORIES
… of their imagined child), 100 (healthy young adult student volunteer) subjects following the experience were randomly assigned to either a normal night of sleep or were variously sleep deprived (in laboratory). After having experienced the emotional event followed immediately by a night of …
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Processo de inclusão escolar de um aluno com síndrome de down em uma escola pública municipal da cidade de REMÍGIO
… how has been the school inclusion process of a student with Down syndrome in the regular education at Remígio city, in the state of Paraiba. The pupil student of the first grade of the Youth and Adults Education is the only adult student with Down syndrome enrolled in the regular teaching of the …
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Online discourse in a primary school setting
… of online collaboration and discourse with adult student learners and this case study aims to explore whether such effects are evident when online discussion technologies are used within a primary school setting. Using a range of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, this …
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Perceptions of the Role of the Principal in the Development, Implementation, and Continuation of a Series Reading Program
Elementary students continue to read below proficiency levels. Principals play a key role in the reading programs at their school. The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions of selected elementary principals and teachers regarding the principal's role in the development, implementation, …
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An examination of the perceptions of tribalistic behaviours in nursing and how they vary in the journey from student nurse to post qualification
… Behaviours in nursing during the journey from student nurse to post registration. There are concerns regarding the existence of a construct in nursing that promotes a structure of protective behaviours and allegiances within recognised nursing groups, establishing “Them v Us” beliefs …
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