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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Institutional experiences"”.
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Longitudinal exploration of student retention, pre-entry attributes, and institutional experiences
… loses the opportunity of future tuition and the experiences of supporting students develop skills and abilities. Research shows student involvement within the institution is key to student persistence (Tinto, 1993; Pascarella & Ternezini, 1991). This study sought to describe the pre-entry …
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Institutional experiences of female child migrants in Western Australia between 1947 - 1955
In this qualitative study I investigated the institutional experiences of former female child migrants who were placed in the care of the Sisters of Mercy in St Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage, Subiaco, Western Australia. My study was guided by the theoretical orientations of Symbolic Interaction and …
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Student Transition at a Residential STEM School
… STEM school. Factors from Tinto’s Model of Institutional Departure were used as the framework to capture the transition of gifted high school students from traditional high school to The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, a statewide residential STEM school. …
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Exploring The Impact Of A Targeted Support Program For Underrepresented Minority Students At A Predominantly White Regional Institution
… framework for the study. Preexisting archival institutional data were employed in this quantitative study that used demographic analysis, linear regression, and multinomial logistic regression. The analyses included preentry characteristics and collegiate characteristics based on students’ …
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Factors That Influence the Persistence Rates of White Undergraduate Students Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
… integration at the institution as well as their institutional experiences at the HBCU as it relates to their decision to persist or depart the HBCU. Through the participants"lived experiences", themes emerged relative to their decision to persist at the institution. The themes were: the …
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Choose Your Own Adventure? The Experiences of Occasional Teachers in the Reproduction or Transformation of Educational Systems
… mechanisms for deskilling and the induction into institutionalized patterns and routines. This project looks at three elements that can cause deskilling or transformative change: (1) institutional experiences and social interaction with others in the OT role; (2) experiences with curriculum, day …
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A Praxis of Transformative Care: Centering Historically Resilient Students at a PWI
… have historically endured the structural load of institutional exclusion, carry the compounded weight of navigating systemic barriers while driving institutional change. This qualitative study disrupts traditional narratives of surviving and thriving to examine how undergraduate students …
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'Who of us care to be seen assisting an old woman?': the institutional care of Ireland's elderly women, 1845 - 1908
This thesis explores the institutional care of Irish women, aged fifty years or more, from 1845 to the introduction of the Old Age Pension in 1908. Moving beyond the experiences of the adolescent and young women, which have been explored by historians in recent years, this study introduces the aged …
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Exploration of female academic staff experiences in a conservative and gendered society : a case study of selected universities in Pakistan
The focus of my research is to explore the experiences of female academic staff in a number of higher education institutions in Pakistan. The research looked at female academic staff perceptions in light of their socio-cultural experiences and how societal as well as cultural norms impacted their …
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'Working it out': the educational careers and aspirations of students on an AVCE travel and tourism course at a college of FHE
… adapting and developing the concept of 'institutional habitus. The model also recognises the relationships between macro (society), meso (institutional/organisational) and micro (individual) factors. Principally, the study found evidence of differences between students of the white …
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Legacy Information Systems: A Case Study on the Impact of Student Information System Replacement and Stakeholder Experiences in a South African Higher Education Institution
… education institutions (HEIs) and exploring the experiences of employees during this student information system change. The system replacement forms part of the university’s broader digital transformation and knowledge management efforts. It explores how modernising outdated systems can improve …
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They Who Persist: A Longitudinal Quantitative Case Study of a University Student Cohort
… academic preparation and achievement; institutional financial aid and personal financial factors; as well as select qualities of the collegiate experience influenced the year-to-year persistence of these freshmen over a five-year period. In addition, the study also examined the extent …
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Examining Predictors of Professional Master Degree Completion at a Highly Diverse Research Institution
… student degree completion? Methods: Using an institutional administrative dataset, this quantitative study examined n= 696 students enrolled in two professionally focused master degree programs (Business and Education) at a large, racially/ethnically diverse research university in the …
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Critical perspectives in the construction and contextualisation of minoritised students in UK Higher Education
… international student experience. Instead, the institutional experiences of international students are confined within Internationalisation policies and processes. This is largely concerned with a market-driven approach underpinned by a hyper-focus on student recruitment, leading to ethical …
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Upper limb ischaemia : a twelve year experience
… It is anticipated that the publication of our institutional data will create a clinical awareness and facilitate future research projects in this field. A collaborative research effort between South African vascular units will facilitate comparison of different institutional experiences and …