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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"College outcomes"”.
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Concurrent Enrollment Programs and Acquired Social Capital for Students from Impoverished Backgrounds: An Examination of High School and College Outcomes
… to reduced workforce opportunities, reduced collegegoing rates, increased social-emotional challenges, and even negative health consequences. Postsecondary educational opportunities, offered during high school, that contribute to the acquisition of social capital may improve academic outcomes …
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Rural Student Career Development: Examining Between-Group Differences in Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectation
… differences in career self-efficacy and college outcome expectation when considering students from rural fringe, rural distant, and rural remote communities. Utilizing Social Cognitive Career Theory and Critical Pedagogy of Place as guiding theoretical frameworks, this study sought to …
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Getting A's in B-School: Do Conservatism and Conventional Ambition Predict Higher GPA?
… of research on the subject of performance in college-level business courses. One line argues that conservative college students earn higher grades in business courses due to a match between their own values and those found in the business school curriculum. The other line argues that the …
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A Model Of Nontraditional College Student Motivation And Success
<p>Despite the increase in their college enrollment, nontraditional students in U.S. postsecondary institutions are less likely to stay in college until they earn their degree. What could explain nontraditional student high attrition rates and overall success beyond what their demographic …
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Peacing it Together: Post 9/11 Enlisted Student Veterans’ Awakening to Peace Leadership
… cultural differences between the military and college. More comprehensive programs that individually and collectively address these challenges need to be developed, and it has become apparent that a new model needs to be evaluated. A peer-based learning program, the Peace Practice Alliance …
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A Structural Model of Leadership Self-Efficacy for Asian American Students: Examining Influences of Collective Racial Esteem and Resilience
… LSE for a diverse sample of 2,223 Asian American college students, using data from the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership, a national survey of college outcomes. Structural equation modeling was used to explore the relationship between CRE and Resilience, as well as Non-Discriminatory Climate …
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Path Analysis of Factors Affecting Student Outcomes and Continued Participation after Completing ALNU 1100 Basics of Patient Care at East Tennessee State University.
… a causal analytic model for predictors of course outcomes and a second causal model for predictors of continued participation in post-secondary education. The demographic characteristics were compared for students who continued to participate in post-secondary education and those who did not …
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College Enrollment, Graduation, and Financing: The Role of Parental Income and Wealth
… financial resources in decisions made about college by parents and children entering adulthood and the consequences of those decisions for both parents and children. The second chapter examines the influence of parental wealth and income on children's college attendance and parental financing …
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An investigation of the influences of college students' goals on quality of effort and growth during the freshman year
… of effort on two freshman-year developmental outcomes. Literature on college effects indicates the importance of student characteristics in determining college outcomes, but does not provide evidence concerning the influences that students' nonacademic goals have on their growth and …
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Essays on housing, education, and inequality
… education in response to the rising college wage premium. However, students from low income families remain less likely to earn a college degree than high income students, even controlling for academic preparation. My dissertation provides empirical evidence on the puzzle of low …
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND PERSISTENCE OF QUOTA STUDENTS IN STEM: A CASE STUDY OF A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY IN BRAZIL
… Findings revealed four broad themes: pre-college experiences, college experiences, college outcomes, and barriers to graduation and institutional responses. Participants indicated that their pre-college academic experiences had the largest effect on their academic achievement and …
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Examining the Effects of Academic English as a Second Language Pathways at the Community College: A Mixed Methods Study
… their open access and affordability, community colleges have long played a central role in providing students with immigrant backgrounds who are English language learners (ELLs) with access to postsecondary education. Researchers have noted that English as a second language (ESL) courses have …
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The Effectiveness of Cash Transfers as a Policy Instrument in K-16 Education
… merit-aid scholarship for students in college within the state of Arkansas. In general, the results presented in this dissertation suggest that students using LSP scholarships performed significantly behind their counterparts in math and English Language Arts after one year, but did not …