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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"FYE"”.
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First Year Experience Seminars: How Contrasting Models Impact the College Transition and Retention
… higher education utilize First Year Experience (FYE) coursework to facilitate college adjustment and student retention. FYE courses are designed to support the college transition by introducing freshman to campus resources that can help them achieve their educational and career goals; however, …
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A Study Of Retention Rates Among Non-Resident Students Enrolled In Freshman Retention Programs
… and non-cohort based freshman year experience (fye) courses, and the retention of academically less-prepared, non-resident students at a Southern University (SU). Structured interviews with open-ended questions were conducted for the qualitative purposes of this study. Qualitative data was …
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Learning Analytics: Understanding First-Year Engineering Students through Connected Student-Centered Data
… student data on first-year engineering (FYE) students and to understand how FYE instructors use data to inform their teaching practices. Grounded by the Academic Plan Model, which highlights student characteristics as an important consideration in curriculum development, the study brings …
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A study of the relationship between a college success course and student perception of the self-regulatory skills of concentration, motivation, and time management
… now offer some form of first year experience (FYE) course. A recent study indicated 94% of accredited four-year colleges and universities in the United States offer a first-year seminar to at least some of their students (Padgett, Keup, & Pascarella, 2013). The question that arises from the …
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The Influences of First-Year Engineering Matriculation Structures on Electrical and Computer Engineering Students' Self-Efficacy
While first-year engineering (FYE) programs have grown dramatically over the last 30 years, they take a variety of different structures. However, few if any, researchers and FYE program developers has considered how program structure, and specifically matriculation, impacts retention – an issue …
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Evaluating the University of Cape Town's pilot discover commerce programme
Background First year experience (FYE) programmes are standard offerings across a number of higher education institutions (HEIs), both locally and internationally. The increase in FYE programmes has been due to the fact that many first-year university students struggle with the academic and social …
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Student Physical Activity and Nutritional Behaviors
… Group (n=22) and a First Year Experience (FYE) course (n=23) with a physical activity focus similar to the intervention group's FYE course. Questions regarding exercise and nutrition from the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment, subject height, weight, …
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Assessing the impact of first-year experience courses on student success in Community and Technical Colleges
… race; and ethnicity); program participation in FYE105; and first-year student academic outcomes (i.e., number of credit hours at the end of the first year; first-year grades; first-year GPA; and first-year retention rates). </p> <p>A causal-comparative research design was best suited for this …
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Student's perceptions of meaningfulness in first year experience courses : a case study
… the knowledge base of a first year experience (FYE) academic program at a large, urban university regarding freshmen perceptions of meaningfulness in their courses. Existing studies identify concepts related to meaningfulness, but do not shed light on attributes which may inhere in those. These …
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Recreating Resistance: Rape Culture Resistance Through Human Rights Education
… tool for educators in First Year Experience (FYE) programs on college campuses. Recreate Resistance looks to address rape culture resistance within a human rights context and attempts to provide a framework for cultural change. Educators reviewing this will be able to utilize a completed …
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First-year seminars and student persistence in selected 4-year institutions: a study from the 2006 national survey on first-year seminars
… first year of college. First-year experience (FYE) courses or first-year seminars (FYSs) were designed to provide students with tools and skills they needed as first-year students in college, as well to help students persist from one year to the next. This study sought to determine which …
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Structural and Biochemical Examination of Aberrant dsDNA Metabolism in TREX1-associated Autoimmunity
TREX1 is a 3’ exonuclease that degrades both single– and double–stranded polynucleotides in order to facilitate orderly cell death and prevent immune dysfunction. Mutations in the TREX1 gene at positions Asp–18 and Asp–200 lead to dominant autoimmune phenotypes …
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Elucidation of Transcriptional Regulatory Relationships Via Information Theoretic Clustering and Consensus Nucleotide Motif Extraction
The process of extracting biologically relevant data from large-scale genetic experiments often begins with clustering genes based on their co-regulatory expression patterns over the course of a given experiment. An examination of the proposal that clustering genes exhibiting both positively- and …
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Models of success: African American males and their pathways toward enrollment in doctoral programs at a predominantly white institution
African American males are often characterized by disparaging terms, such as: endangered, uneducable, dysfunctional, incorrigible, and dangerous (Strayhorn, 2013, Ferguson, 2000, Gibbs, 1988; Majors & Billson, 1992; Parham & McDavis, 1987). These characterizations have a negative impact on African …