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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Students in Transition"”.
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Veteran-Students in Transition at a Midwestern University
… been conducted on military veterans who enroll in institutions of higher education following their returns from deployment, much of that work has focused on issues such as veterans’ finances or academic achievement, rather than the individuals’ transitions from deployment to student life. Prior …
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EFL TO ESL: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH L2 STUDENTS IN TRANSITION
This is a case study of four international English L2 students transitioning from their home countries into the academic context of a US university. It investigates the intersections of identity and investment as English L2 students interact with English resources, and how proficiency may or may …
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Building an Educated Workforce: Brain Drain and Senior State Merit Scholarship Recipients Studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics
<p>Brain drain is a concept which purports that an area's economy suffers when its most educated population migrates from home. While this phenomenon is most frequently studied in developing countries, within the United States, some states are concerned with losing their most educated workers and …
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An Analysis of the Utilization of SSI Incentives by Transition Professionals Working With Students With Visual Disabilities
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which there is a relationship between residential school for the blind transition coordinators' reported knowledge levels of selected SSI information, cash, medical and work incentive items and their reported level of use of these items …
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Perspectives on differentiation in practice : an interpretive study from teaching Japanese as a second language in Western Australian secondary schools
This focus of this interpretive study was aimed at presenting an active conception of differentiated curriculum from within the context of Western Australian (WA) second language teaching practice. Significantly, research into differentiation is a relatively new phenomenon in Australia and in …
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An Analysis of Academic Peer Leaders' Perceptions of Academic Skills and Performance
… research study explored academic peer leadership in the context of higher education and student affairs. In this study, a peer leader was considered to be "an undergraduate student who has been selected to serve as a mentor or peer educator to other students through a position with a school-run …