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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Retention factors"”.
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Teacher Retention: Factors That Contribute to Teachers' Decisions to Remain in the Profession
… in the profession. This paper investigates the factors that cause teachers to remain in the field. An online survey of 17 questions was sent to graduate students at a private university in Northern California. Results showed that teachers remain in the profession because of the rewarding work. …
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Middle school African American males: educational goals, career aspirations and high school retention factors
… school. Identifying and understanding the factors that influence their decision to continue their education, opt out (a free choice to discontinue their education), or drop out (occurs because of extenuating circumstances such as family problems and/or obligations, expulsion or poor …
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An analysis of promotion and retention factors among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Marine Corps officers
… Marine Corps policies on the recruitment, retention, and promotion of talented officers of a diverse background, and applies quantitative multivariate analysis methods to identify pre-commissioning and post-commissioning factors, such as college performance, accession source, military …
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An Analysis of Retention Factors In Undergraduate Degree Programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
<p>This mixed-methodological study explored the factors that predict a student's likelihood to complete an undergraduate program in a STEM discipline at one campus reliant upon that mission. Offered in response to a national imperative for the U.S. to compete globally, researchers contend educators …
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An Analysis of Retention Factors In Undergraduate Degree Programs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
<p>This mixed-methodological study explored the factors that predict a student's likelihood to complete an undergraduate program in a STEM discipline at one campus reliant upon that mission. Offered in response to a national imperative for the U.S. to compete globally, researchers contend educators …
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Analysis of Retention Factors that influence Georgia's Secondary Career and Technical Education Teachers to Remain in the Teaching Profession
The research study on the retention influences of Georgia's secondary career and technical education teachers was conducted to determine why the teachers chose to remain in the teaching profession. Participants included all program areas of career and technical education in the state of Georgia. …
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The effects of the Lincoln National Corporation Business-Assisted Summer Employment Program upon the self-concept scores and select-job retention factors of high school students from low-income families
… Program upon the self-concepts and selected job retention factors of junior and senior high school students from low income families in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Specifically, the study was designed to gather and analyze statistical data of participating B.A.S.E. students as compared to …
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What Keeps Teachers of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Teaching?
… (ASD) disability in order to identify important retention factors specific to them. In this qualitative, phenomenological study, the researcher conducted four, one-on-one interviews to discover the district-related factors shared by teachers of students with ASD when considering staying or …
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The application of Machine Learning for Early Detection of At -Risk Learners in Massive Open Online Courses
… such works only address a limited set of retention factors. They typically consider the learners’ activities as a sequence of weekly intervals, neglecting important learning trajectories. In this PhD thesis, my goal is to investigate retention factors. More specifically, the project seeks …
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Designing an employee retention framework: a case study of varun food and beverage
… study was to design a framework for employee retention for Varun Food and Beverage. This was a quantitative study that took a causal approach.300 employees answered a structured questionnaire. Data was analysed using SPSS version 22. The findings show that the Employee Retention Connection …
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Comparison of transport effects of perfluorinated and hydrocarbon surfactants on environmental co-contaminants
… Transport effects were elucidated from retention factors, k, and the equilibrium constant per micelle of the model pollutants. The resulting data suggest that the presence of HCSs and PFSs, above the CMC, increases the transport of co–contaminants in a groundwater system. However, …
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Factors affecting the separation of organic compounds by gas liquid chromatography
… first place it has been an investigation of the factors which influence retention time in an attempt to predict the retentions of new compounds. Secondly it has been an investigation into the conditions for the best separation of diastereoisomers, and thirdly it has been an application of gas …
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Perceptions of Special Education Teachers of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities Regarding Key Factors Influencing Their Decisions to Persist in or Leave Their Positions
… and behavioral disabilities perceive key factors that influence their decisions to persist in or leave their position, school, or profession. The study employed a basic qualitative methodology. Demographic and background data were collected through questionnaires, and individual in-depth …
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Work satisfaction and retention strategies of medical doctors in the South African public health sector
… public healthcare sector is motivation and retention of the healthcare practitioners. Medical doctors in particular, tend to leave the public sector for the private sector, rural settlements for the urban settlements, the Republic of South Africa for other countries or entirely leaving the …
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Evolving paradigms of surgical education in Africa : historical contexts and outcomes
… models, assessing their impact on graduate retention, educational quality, and assessment methods. The thesis starts by exploring the determinants of surgical training in Africa, highlighting the impact of colonialism and the “brain drain” phenomenon by utilizing two of my publications. It …
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Perceptions Of American Indian Students Of Their Experiences And Factors Related To Retention In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education
… regarding higher education and to examine factors that contribute to or create obstacles to their retention and graduation. The sample of American Indian students was selected from five Upper Midwest institutions of higher education and was stratified by age and by gender. A total of 100 …
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An investigation into recruitment, retention and motivation of advanced life support practitioners in South Africa
… was therefore conceptualized to investigate factors that influence ALS practitioner recruitment, retention and motivation in an effort to enhance them. Methods: This study followed a sequential, explanatory, mixed method design. The two phase study was non-experimental and descriptive in …
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THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATORS
… attention to recruitment, engagement, and retention factors, as well as participants’ perceptions of efficacy regarding these efforts. Five participants were selected for this study with the following characteristics: they all have served within the field of university development for 10 …
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The effects of first generation status upon the first year college success patterns of students attending an urban multi-campus community college
… colleges have a special interest in identifying factors associated with retention and graduation. Additionally, community college administrators are interested in the identification of retention factors and how to structure administrative policy and procedure that address college success patterns …
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Adiabatic Packed Column Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
… parameters such as diffusion coefficients and retention factors. This ultimately results in solute band broadening and a decrease in band resolution. For this reason, method development and method transfer can be complex and the pressure-temperature region near the critical point of the mobile …
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