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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Adult undergraduate students"”.
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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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Understanding the thoughts and experiences leading to the full-time enrollment of a selected group of adult undergraduate students in a midwestern university
… study was to question a selected group of 28 adult undergraduate students to gain an understanding of the thoughts and experiences that led to their full time enrollment (12 semester hours or more) in a public, four-year postsecondary educational institution. Students targeted were age 25 or …
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Emerging adulthood and willingness to caregive
… little is known about caregiving during emerging adulthood despite the unique juxtaposition of gains in autonomy concurrent with declining degrees of dependency common in the developmental period. This study investigated whether emerging adults differ in AD caregiving beliefs based on relationship …
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From an adult viewpoint: the transition from non-student to student status
This study focused on the transition process of adult undergraduate students as they progressed from non-student to student status at a large state supported university. This study focused on the factors of transition as described in the Transition Framework developed by Nancy K. Schlossberg. …
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Personal And Social Factors In Risk-Taking Behaviors Of Emerging Adults
… transitional period from adolescence to young adulthood is defined as the stage of life that begins at the conclusion of high school and ends with the acceptance of adult roles (i.e., career, marriage, parenthood). The focus of the present study was on college students' excessive use of alcohol …