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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"First-Year Student"”.
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A Grounded theory study exploring first year student nurses' learning in practice.
… research grounded theory study exploring how first year student nurses learn in practice on their first placement. The study is complemented by a mixed methodology practice development project (PDP) that examines the specific aspect of student placement support using online communication …
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First-year student retention: MAP-Works[superscript]TM early warning and intervention relationships
… program that is designed to help retain first-year students by identifying the level of retention risk for each student early in their first semester and communicating this risk to key university faculty and staff. The participants for this study were all first semester freshman students …
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Predictors of Academic Success: A Study of First-Year Student-Athletes at a Private Midwestern University
… for the academic success and graduation of student-athletes, colleges and universities are compelled to consider the influential factors of academic success or failure for collegiate student-athletes. This study explored pre-college academic and nonacademic factors that are important for …
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Closing the Gap: A First Year Student Retention Strategy for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in South Carolina
… one of the nation’s most educated states by the year of 2030. One way South Carolina can achieve these two goals is to close the gap that currently exists between majority and minority populations with college degrees. African Americans are the largest minority population with college degrees and …
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Preadmission and Noncognitive Factors Predicting First-Year Student Academic Success in a Private, Entry-Level Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
… Therapy (DPT) programs pose challenges for students and academic institutions. This study aims to identify preadmission cognitive and graduate student noncognitive factors affecting academic success of first year DPT students, focusing on the role of burnout. Review of Literature Previous …
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The management of the first-year student experience programmes at the selected higher education institution : a case of business and information management undergraduates
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Business and Information Management, Durban University of Technology Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Factors Associated with First-Year Student Retention in Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Confidence and Use of Support Services on Persistence and Success
… study investigated factors influencing first-year student retention at a midsized regional comprehensive university. Using archival data from the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years, the research examined the retention rates of Standard Admit students and conditionally admitted …
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Identity-Based Assignments and Student Disinterest in FYC
… assignments in FYC and identify the student response to these assignments. If individuals teaching and studying FYC can determine that identity-based assignments raise first-year student interest in academic writing then we should intensify the study and use of these assignments.</p>
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Registration and course selection processes of entering freshmen and the effects on academic success and retention at a midsize public university
This mixed-methods study concentrated on students who participated in a 2-day freshman orientation program and registered for courses at a midsize metropolitan 4-year public university located in the southeastern United States. This study examined three cohorts of entering freshmen as they …
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Assessing the impact of first-year experience courses on student success in Community and Technical Colleges
<p>This study examined the impact first-year experience courses have on first-year student performance when enrolled in these courses at public community and technical colleges in Kentucky. The target population for this research study was composed of freshman students participating in the course …
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Those Who Quit: A Study of Student Retention At Two-Year Community and For-Profit Colleges
… study intends to explore factors influencing first-year student persistence at two-year community, and for-profit institutions. Much of the existing retention literature on post-secondary education has mostly centered around traditional four-year institutions, thus this study remedies the …
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The Efficacy of Residential Learning Communities on First Generation, First-Year College Students' Success at a Rural Regional University
… learning communities on the success of first-generation first-year students. Using the theoretical framework of Tinto’s Conceptual Schema this study looked at the social and academic integration factors of living in a residential learning community through fall-to-fall retention rates …
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Exploring habitus and writer identities : an ethnographic study of writer identity construction in the FET phase at two schools in the Western Cape
… at university is predominantly dependent on students' ability to express their ideas through writing academic essays or assignments in most faculties. However, studies over the past decade highlight the inability of many South African learners, especially those for whom English is not a home …
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First-year Writing and Research Journals: How Online Publication Redefines Student Writing and Scholarship in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies
Many accounts of student writing exist in the field of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS) in the form of writing textbooks, readers, and articles across decades of professional journal volumes (Grobman 2009; Kinkead 2011; Robillard 2006; Sommers 2015).. Some argue that discussing …
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'I can't wait til I'm an actual journalist' : how students begin to become journalists
This research investigates the ways in which students in an academic, practice-based journalism program acquire the traits and dispositions of journalists. It draws on the framework of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, including his concepts of field, habitus and capital. It applies a thematic analysis …
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The Lebanese M Community: Identities Lost (or Found) in Translation
The first time I was exposed to the word “gay,” I was watching television at home. In the Arabic subtitles, the word shādh appeared. From around that time, I have a vague memory of one of my teachers at my Lebanese Catholic School explaining what shādh meant. The word easily translated into English …
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A Whole New World: Students with Disabilities Transition to Postsecondary Education
… has been a steady increase in the enrollment of students with disabilities in higher education. With the postsecondary transition in educational supports from the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) in high school to ADA in college, there has been a lack of research related to …
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