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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"College success"”.
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Community College Success of Students with Disabilities
… this study was to identify aspects of home life, college life, or high school preparation that supported the success of students with disabilities at community colleges. As students with disabilities are rarely represented in the literature, this study offered a space for students with …
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Community college success coaching : a phenomenological exploration.
… understanding of the essence of the emerging success coach profession and to understand how these community college student affairs staff members articulate and analyze the process of developing their students' success. The role of community college success coach only recently emerged and …
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Mid-Childhood Immigrant Perspectives on Achieving College Success
… mid-childhood immigration. Fifteen participants, college students who immigrated to the U.S. from Latin America between the ages of 8 and 16 and who had completed at least a semester of transferable college-level coursework, provided their narratives by way of an open-ended interview focusing …
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Relationships, Health, and Spirituality among College Students: Factors of College Success
… and faith factors associated with the home to college transition. Data from 347 collegians attending a Christian University were utilized for this study and results uncovered that over the course of a year, gender, time, significant emotional relationships, a psychosocial abuse history, and …
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Impacts of Childbearing on College Success: A Study of Two Generations
… women overall, women who have ever enrolled in college, mothers, and mothers who have ever enrolled in college. There were several major findings from this study. First, having a child is the strongest negative predictor of degree completion by age 24 in both census years. Second, there has been …
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The Relation of The Pattern of High School Courses to College Success
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Advanced Placement and College Success in Freshman and Sophomore Level Biology Courses
This investigation examines college success in freshman and sophomore level biology courses for students with biology AP credit by addressing the following questions: One, Does AP biology experience increase academic performance in freshman biology? Do AP students with scores of 3 significantly …
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Motivation and the SAT: what factors help determine college success past standardized testing
… the effects motivation plays in determining the success of a student in post secondary education. The relationship between high school GPA (HSGPA), SAT Scores, college GPA (CGPA), and motivation factors were examined. Motivation was measured on the Motivational Strategies for Learning …
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Through the lens of a college success seminar: developing workshops for EOF students
… and there is much evidence to support that college success seminars have increased student persistence and degree attainment (Fidler, 1991; Keenan & Gabovitch, 1995; O'Gara, Karp, & Hughes, 2009; Zeidenberg, Jenkins, & Calcagno, 2007). While most success courses come packaged with content …
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Wechsler adult intelligence scale as a predictor of college success with high risk students
… necessary for high risk students to experience success in college. The subjects were 60 full-time college freshmen enrolled in a special program for high risk students at Ball State University during the 1978-79 school year.The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was administered to …
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A Study of High School Wealth and Size as Predictive Factors for College Success
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A qualitative study of college success for students with experience in foster care in Pennsylvania
… system, group homes, or kinship care graduate college at a significantly lower rate than their peers. Most research indicates that no more than four percent of students with experience in the foster care system, who will be represented in this dissertation as SEFC, will complete any level of …
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BEYOND THE SAT/ACT: AN EXAMINATION OF NON-COGNITIVE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO STUDENTS' COLLEGE SUCCESS
… as the SAT and ACT claim to predict students' success in college. Colleges and universities place a considerable emphasis on these test scores when reviewing and deciding on applicants. However, over the years, institutional leaders and academic researchers have questioned whether the SAT/ACT …
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Self-efficacy for the self-regulation of learning: An examination of a college success strategies course
… for students enrolled in a semester long college success strategies course. This was done to determine if learning about the learning process and skills and behaviors that promote learning would positively influence efficacy beliefs related to the regulation of learning. The college …
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(Re)Envisioning Factors Contributing to Black Men’s College Success: An Ecological and Critical Reflection Using Photovoice
… the voices of Black men who have completed college degrees. The study explores the question: What factors contribute to college completion for Black men? Using a qualitative approach and the Ethos platform to collect images, photo captions, and critical reflection data from a purposive …
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Virginia's Middle College Program: Factors of Completion, Community College Success, and Participants' Perceptions of Student Support Services
The Middle College program, developed by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), allows high school dropouts (herein referred to as "out of school youth"), ages 18 to 24, to increase their income and employability by pursuing a General Educational Development certificate (GED®), community …
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Predicting college success for freshmen at the College of the Pacific from scores made on the SCAT test
The purpose of this study is to predict the GPA for the students from their SCAT scores. The specific objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to show what degree the GPA can be predicted from the SCAT scores and to what extent they will fall between the standard error of estimate of the …
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Unorthodox Support: How Mentors of Undocumented Immigrant Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth to Pave the Way for College Success
… (UIS) who have graduated from a four-year college or university in the United States. There has been an increase in research about undocumented immigrant students and there is an established body of literature about mentoring. However, there are few studies which focus on the mentoring of …
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