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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"College-based"”.
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Down Front: Challenges Facing Community College Based Performing Arts Centers
<p>A number of community colleges have committed significant resources to presenting arts and cultural programming for their communities. These community college based arts organizations face many of the same challenges as other non-profit arts organizations and arts centers located on traditional …
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Impact on student satisfaction of the varying degrees and types of technology in college -based adult basic education programs
… upon the use of technology by a group of 106 college-based adult basic education (ABE) students from different areas of the country. Statistical analyses of a Likert style questionnaire offered online investigates the impact of technology on student satisfaction with the ABE program The data …
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Student Retention: One College's Attempt To Deal With The Problem In The Light Of Recent Government Policy 1999-2002
… programmes at a further education (FE) college in a disadvantaged area of the North of England. As rates of student withdrawal have attracted the attention of policy makers, the research examines the assumptions which shaped the decision to define drop-out as a problem and to use funding …
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Setting a foundation for the development of medication dosage calculation problem solving skills among novice nursing students: The role of constructivist learning approaches and a computer based 'Authentic World' learning environment
… to the design and development of a computer-based 'Authentic World' learning environment. The relationship between exposure to these two teaching methods and the learning of dosage calculation skills, was evaluated in both college- and clinical-based environments.<br/><br/>Participants and …
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Strategic planning in college health: A mixed method study
… wellness concerns when they arrive on campus. College-based health service leaders are tasked with addressing those concerns with a finite set of resources within the context of evolving healthcare and higher education industries. In order to develop a set of practices to guide college health …
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The Analysis and Study of Power System Designs for Same Polytechnic College in Tanzania
… is currently doing is to build Same Polytechnic College (SPC) in Tanzania. As part of the project, this thesis aims to study and analyze the electrical power system and distribution for the college. Based on the projected load profile of the college and high potential for solar generation in …
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Mothers’ perception of early childhood education as a function of ethnic background
… questionnaires were collected from a university-based preschool, a college-based daycare, and a community-based preschool. The mothers were asked to rank order eight developmental goals listed in the questionnaire. The development of good self-concept was ranked as the most important goal, …
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Being Black & Blue: Sex as a Moderator Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Depressive Symptoms Among Black Emerging Adults
… female) attending a large, public northeastern college in the United States, who took part of a broader study aiming to understand factors influencing mental health outcomes in adulthood. Participants self – reported their sociodemographic information, their early childhood adversity (Adverse …
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An examination of college student athletes' academic achievement
… that athletes are not as well prepared to go to college as their non-athletic counterparts. This could be attributed to low high school academic standards, or high school teachers allowing athletes to underperform due to their status as an athlete, or a lack of time for studying due to sport …
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Identity invisibility and social forces
… and actions of undergraduates studying within college based higher education.
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Scaling Success : learning from education intervention programs to close the racial education achievement gap
… and policymakers often turn to race-based affirmative action, the explicit (and contentious) consideration of an applicant's race in admissions decisions. College-centered education intervention programs are another tool administrators and policymakers use to address the gap reflected …
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An Evaluation of the Teacher Education Program at William Penn College
… teacher education program at William Penn College based upon a survey of the graduates' perceptions of the program from 1983-1987, as to the effectiveness and expected benefits of the program. Procedure. Graduate records were used to identify the names and addresses of all William Penn …
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Why do I have to do key skills? : accounting for year one engineering college students' perspectives on work and vocalisational education : a case study
… students. As I teach Key Skills in an isolated College of Further Education in North West England, I am often asked by such students why they have to study Key Skills. As I wanted to find out more about such attitudes inimical to teaching and learning, this thesis reports a case study of the …
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The response of some further education colleges to youth training under the new training initiative
… by a representative sample of Further Education colleges is examined. The policy intentions of governmental and quasi-government bodies are placed in their political context, focussing on the curricular policies of the Manpower Services Commission (MSC) and the Further Education Unit (FEU). The …
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Kōda Rohan and the golden era of Sōgō Zasshi
… attracted rapidly growing population of college-educated intellectuals and white-collar workers (“salaryman”). Through their huge commercial success, they also replaced college-based literary magazines as the authority of literature, placing writers and literary works in the emerging mass …
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Longitudinal exploration of student retention, pre-entry attributes, and institutional experiences
… institutional experiences had by students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University. The purposes of this study also included discovering the likelihood a student will or will not be retained by CASNR based on a student’s pre-entry attributes as well as …
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Profiles of Pre-Service Teacher Education : an Investigation into the Nature of Selected Exemplary Programs in Jamaica and Michigan
… in narrative form then analyzed and compared based on the similarities and differences that existed among them. The analysis led to the emergence of various themes across the three institutions, and these were used to draw conclusions relative to the structure of pre-service teacher …
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Extracurricular adventure programming in higher education: student motivations at a university climbing wall
<p>"Colleges and universities across the United States continue to struggle with student retention (Wolfe & Kay, 2011; Tinto, 1993; Astin, 1993). The use of extracurricular activities in higher education has been one route in addressing this issue (Tinto, 1993; Lang, 2001-2002; Hall, 2006). Many …
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Characteristics of Help-Seeking Among First-Year Community College Students
<p>Health trends among freshmen entering college indicate that 2-year college students are especially vulnerable to engaging in risky health behaviors, yet many do not seek help. There was a need to more directly assess those who use college health services and factors that enable them to seek help …
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