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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"University success"”.
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African American Males, Mentorship, And University Success: A Qualitative Study
<p>This study examined black males who successfully graduated from a university in south central Kentucky and their perception of mentorship. Interviews were conducted in an attempt to get the lived experiences of five black males who became first generation college graduates. The researcher used …
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Understanding the Successful University Student: Constructing the Measure of Student Success (MOSS)
… of the more salient factors that contribute to university student success and to construct the Measure of Student Success (MOSS) as an alternative option to the instruments that are currently available to measure student success. Two manuscripts are presented. In the first, undergraduate …
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Establishing a Unified Model of Academic Literacy and a Method for Measuring Academic Readiness
… for the student to gain membership in the university discourse community. As a construct which requires membership within the academic discourse community, academic literacy entails communicative competence. Researchers have found that academic writing is primarily composed of tasks which …
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Exploring habitus and writer identities : an ethnographic study of writer identity construction in the FET phase at two schools in the Western Cape
… either strengthen or impede academic writing at university. Success at university is predominantly dependent on students' ability to express their ideas through writing academic essays or assignments in most faculties. However, studies over the past decade highlight the inability of many South …
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Studienberatung im deutschen Hochschulsystem auf der Basis psychologischer Tests : Studienfachprofile, Vorhersagevalidität und Akzeptanz
The RWTH Aachen University has been developing a web-based self-assessment student guidance system since 2002. The programme is based on cognitive tests and non-cognitive questionnaires and has the long-term goal of increasing success rates, in particular in Computer Sciences and Electrical …