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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Bachelor's degree"”.
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Student-College Match and Bachelor's Degree Completion
… match and explores its relationship with bachelor’s degree completion. This study differentiates itself from existing undermatch studies by examining alternative student-college match scenarios – including undermatch, match, and overmatch and examining the phenomena’s relationship with a …
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Mexican-American Females and the Bachelor's Degree Challenges and Success Stories
… challenges in order to successfully complete a bachelor’s degree. Mexican-American females were selected because of the minimal amount of attention paid to this specific population. Data collected included ten face-to-face interviews and document review. Using the qualitative process of …
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Comparing Factors of Bachelor's Degree Attainment for First and Continuing Generation Students
… have the greatest influence on first generation degree attainment. As such, this quantitative study examined how factors influencing student success vary for first and continuing generation students through an analysis of a nationally representative dataset from the 2004/2009 Beginning …
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Contributing Factors to the Bachelor's Degree Attainment of Males in the United States
The degree attainment of college students is a critical issue that institutions of higher education are considering. Colleges want to improve their retention, progression, and graduation rates for all students. Over the past decades men, based on the literature reviewed, have earned fewer degrees …
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A Model Part-Time Bachelor's Degree Program for Adults at California Public Research Institutions
… their education part-time to complete a Bachelor's degree and to assess a California research institution's perception of part-time study. Adult student enrollments in postsecondary education have increased 114 percent between 1970 and 1985. Part-time student enrollments rose nearly 87 …
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Co-Curricular Experiences And Career Readiness: A Narrative Inquiry Of Bachelor's Degree Graduate Experiences
… Seemiller, 2018). This study explored how recent bachelor’s degree graduates (n = 5, 2018–2021) perceived the role of co-curricular involvement in developing leadership competencies and applying them in early careers. Guided by Astin’s (1999) student involvement theory and Clandinin and Connelly’s …
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An Examination of the Bachelor's Degree Attainment Experiences of African American Males Post-Incarceration
… for a felony offense and successfully obtained bachelor's degree upon release. This research asks the questions: what motivated the pursuit of a degree, how did they pay for it, what resources were utilized, what challenges were overcome, and what impact this achievement had on their lives? …
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A narrative inquiry into key experiences affecting women's persistence in STEM fields following the bachelor's degree
… experiences of eight women who completed STEM degrees but did not pursue STEM careers. The aim of the study was to better understand the social, cultural, academic, and institutional factors that influenced their experiences. The theoretical framework was guided by critical feminist theory and …
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The Four-Year College Pipeline and Factors Related to Bachelor's Degree Completion for High School Graduates
… I also explored the relationship between bachelor's degree completion and high school academic achievement using logistic regression for students from the 2004 senior cohort who enrolled on-time in four-year institutions. The logistic regression results were used to conduct a path analysis …
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Laying the foundation: An investigation of bachelor's degree attainment rates of early college high school graduates
… school diploma and a significant head start on a Bachelor's Degree.</p> <p>The study resulted in two major findings. First, ECA graduates have earned Bachelor's Degrees at far higher rates than their non-ECA peers (at EMU, the ECA rate was 68%, <em>N</em> = 47 as compared with 23% of the non-ECA …
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Examining the Motivating Factors That Influence Students with an Associate's Degree to Complete a Bachelor's Degree at a Private University
… for community college graduates to complete a bachelor’s degree at a private, not-for-profit university. In addition, this study sought to identify and describe why students persist during degree completion programs, as well as the inhibitors and facilitators found throughout such programs.</p> …
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Perceived Barriers to and Supports for Transfer to a STEM Bachelor's Degree Among Continuing-Generation and First-Generation Community College Students
… or university for the purpose of completing a bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) major, and how these factors relate to their perceived likelihood of degree attainment. A total of 307 students across seven Virginia community colleges responded to an online survey …
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Degree Attainment Among Adult Learners
… understanding and discover knowledge about degree attainment among adult learners. This qualitative inquiry is about what 15 bachelor's degree recipients over the age of 25 felt contributed to their efforts to attain the bachelor's degree.</p><p>This study contains professional research and …
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Times are changing: Voices of adult learners' shared experiences
… and essence of the lived experiences within a Bachelor's degree completion cohort of adult learners. This study focused on adult learners who are matriculating into a postsecondary institution. The central question of this study was: What are the meaning, structure, and essence of the lived and …
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The Relationship Between Post Graduate Study and Teacher Opinions Toward the Teaching of Reading
… with graduate courses in reading beyond a bachelor's degree and those teachers with only a bachelor's degree. The study was limited to thirty-three elementary classroom teachers in the Mountain View-Birch Tree RIII School District. Teachers completed opinionnaires designed to measure how …
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"Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era
… data show a trend away from liberal arts degrees towards technical and professional degrees over the last thirty years (Fogg, Harrington, and Harrington 2004). Though the most important reason for earning a bachelor's degree cited among college freshman is improved career opportunities, …
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Variations in Educational Attainment Among DIfferent Latino Subgroups
… of the students earning post-secondary degrees. Some contend that institutional discrimination, intertwined with racial ideologies are preventing Hispanics from achieving higher levels of education. The purpose of this study was to determine whether Latinos are less likely to complete at …
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