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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Rural students"”.
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Remote Rural Students' Perceptions of their Collegiate Transition Experience
… research project focused on the perceptions of students from remote rural communities as they told of their transition experiences to mid-size, research-intensive university. During the spring of 2008, thirteen students from North Dakota remote rural counties agreed to be interviewed for this …
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RURAL ROOTS, ACADEMIC ROADS: EXPLORING COLLEGE PERSISTENCE AMONG RURAL STUDENTS
… challenges faced by first-generation college students from rural backgrounds as they transition from K-12 to four-year regional institutions. Using quantitative analysis of secondary data from the class of 2024 at a selected institution, this study examines factors influencing graduation rates …
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Rural Students on College Enrollment: Perceptions of Influence Surrounding College Choice
… experiences, and life events of individuals from rural Arkansas communities in developing their decisions to attend college and how the community impacted their successful enrollment at the University of Arkansas. Specifically, the study set out to explore how rural communities were perceived to …
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BREAKING THE CYCLE? AN EXPLORATION OF ACADEMIC MATCHING AND RURAL STUDENTS' COLLEGE CHOICE PROCESSES
The issue of academic undermatching involves students enrolling at colleges and universities below the level of selectivity to which their academic profiles indicate they could gain admission. Undermatching has received significant attention because students who undermatch have been shown to …
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Exploring first-year, rural students computer acquisition experiences at an urban university in South Africa
… learning remaining well resourced, most of their students are white and these institutions still retain their colonial activities. Black students who attend these Higher Education Institutions do not perform as well as their white counterparts as a result of the inequalities that still exist in …
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Changing Patterns of Talk to Improve the High-Level Reading Comprehension of Chinese Primary Rural Students
… the high-level reading comprehension of primary students from Chinese rural settings. This doctoral project investigates the extent to which a dialogic intervention is associated with shifts in classroom talk patterns and impacts on Chinese rural students’ high-level reading comprehension. The …
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Engaging rural students at the University of Montana through digital stories: supports and barriers to higher education
Access has been an ongoing issue for rural students (Eller, Martinez, Pace, Pavel, Garza & Barnett, 1998; Torres, 2013). In this study, I examined factors that have been proven barriers and supports for rural students. These factors include being first-generation, financial status, geographic …
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Off the Rural Back Road: Describing the Experiences of Rural Students who Enrolled at an Urban 4-Year University
<p>Tinto (1993) argued that all students have different needs and require different resources and services to enable them to persist at the university level. One group of students that requires individualized attention is students from rural areas. During the 2010-2011 academic year, 57% of public …
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THE HUMAN FACTORS WHICH ACTED AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR INSPIRING IMPOVERISHED, RURAL STUDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY PURSUE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
… AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR INSPIRING IMPOVERISHED, RURAL STUDENTS TO SUCCESSFULLY PURSUE POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Adam E. Lucas</p> <p>This qualitative study explored how students from rural poverty were able to find the motivation from an adult-role model to pursue …
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Perceptions of college and career readiness among rural high school seniors
Rural students are the least likely to enroll in college immediately following high school graduation (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2016; Smith, Beaulieu, & Seraphine, 1995). From 2000 to 2015, the gap in bachelor’s degree attainment between rural and urban populations grew to 14 …
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Three essays on rural-nonrural disparities in postsecondary access and success
… market, recent estimates indicate that 20% of rural young adults have a college degree, as compared to 38% of their peers in nonrural areas. Despite the low college attainment rates in rural areas, however, existing research on barriers that inhibit rural students' college access and success is …
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Constitution and negotiation of rural student identities at an urban South African university
… constructivist lens, this study explores how students from rural areas consti-tute and negotiate their identities within an urban South African university. Much of the re-search on rurality in South Africa has focused on rural areas as places, and not on the people occupying them. Using a …
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Comparison of B.A. /M.D. Program Medical Student Performance With Traditional Medical Students
… culturally sensitive interventions with Asian students, under represented minority students, and rural students, all of whom performed worse than the control group at times. Study of Asian students in particular is recommended, as they make up the vast majority of GPPA students.
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Where roots run deep: fostering youth environmental motivation through livelihoods in rural place-based education
… attacking the hurdles of climate change. Youth students will be among the most affected by climate change in the future, however, due to the current political state of the US and the lack in access to climate change curricular materials, teaching climate comes with a few challenges (especially …
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Fourth-Grade Narrative Fiction Writing: Using Content Analysis to Examine the Intersection of Place, High Ability, and Creativity
… to illuminate the possibilities that emerge when rural students in the intermediate elementary grades engage in narrative fiction writing. Qualitative content analysis (Hsieh and Shannon, 2005) was used to analyze 237 stories written as the culminating project of the semester-length Fiction unit …
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Figuring It Out On their Own: How Rural Adult Online Students Negotiate Barriers to Learning Online
The health of rural communities depends, in part, on the education level of rural adults. Economic vitality is impacted by degree completion, and the rate of degree completion by rural adults lags behind that of their urban and suburban counterparts. Low completion rates suggest that there are …
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College-Going Behaviors: Are there School Effects for the Rural Student?
… the school effects of college going behavior for rural students. Of interest were the effects of location and college-going culture within a given school. The research questions asked, included: 1. What are the effects of rural school location and college-going culture on public high school …
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Rural Voices: A Photographic Journey of the Intersection of Place and Reading Identity in Rural Adolescents
… A gap exists in the research when it comes to rural students and their reading habits. Using photo elicitation, I gained an understanding of reading identity as it relates to rural teenagers in Georgia. Specifically, I explored how they position themselves as readers and how they describe and …
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The Aspirations of Youth in Arkansas: A Comparison of Rural Locales
<p>Rural youth are leaving their home communities in search of economic opportunity. Students’ residential, occupational, and educational aspirations are effective predictors of life choices, such as future residence. This study’s purpose was to determine the aspirations of rural students in …
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An Exploration of Rural Advanced Placement Differentiation
… of underserved groups, including rural students (Gagnon & Mattingly, 2016) in AP classes. Rural gifted students benefit from all the same classroom differentiation techniques that other gifted students do, including critical thinking and problem-solving, advanced content, inquiry, …
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