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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Prescriptive Advising"”.
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Current and Preferred Academic Advising Styles of African American Students in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
This study was designed to explore the advising styles that are currently perceived and preferred by African American and White students in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. The high attrition rate of African Americans in the engineering colleges both nationally and at Virginia Tech …
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Advising styles preferred by African-American students enrolled in a two-year commuter college
… faculty, and researchers have assumed that advising needs and preferences for advising styles are similar across student population segments and do not consider the relationship of student attributes or the institutional setting to academic advising. Crookston (1972) presented two advising …
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Student perceptions of academic advising and influence on retention : a study of first-semester, first-generation and continuing-generation college students at a liberal arts college
… preferences, and satisfaction with academic advising and influence of these factors on intent to persist. Early in the transition to college, students are at risk for departure; more so for those whose parents did not attend college. A quantitative research design was used to investigate the …
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Closing the Gap: A First Year Student Retention Strategy for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in South Carolina
… identified the importance of effective academic advising to first year student retention. There are three main approaches to academic advising: prescriptive, developmental, and proactive. Of these three approaches, proactive advising has been shown to be the most effective approach for …
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Using Academic Advising To Increase Motivation And Engagement In First-Year College Students
… which can be impacted through effective academic advising (Mottarella et al., 2004; Hale et al., 2009; Smith, 2002; Museus & Ravello, 2010). </p> <p> The purpose of this design-based research study was to document the design, implementation, and evaluation of a motivational-based academic advising …
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Online Academic Advising: Student Needs and their Satisfaction
… purpose of this study was to examine the type of advising conducted (prescriptive v. developmental), the type of information sought, and the level of participant satisfaction gained through online academic advising. For purposes of this study, online academic advice was defined as advice or …