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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"first-time freshmen"”.
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ENHANCING LEADERSHIP ABILITY IN FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN THROUGH MENTORSHIP: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH
… this study was to examine how mentorship affects first-time female freshmen’s willingness to take on leadership opportunities.</p> <p>Data were collected from three mentees and three mentors through an initial interest survey, semi-structured personal interviews, and the 3D Wisdom Scale …
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ASSESSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO FACULTY/STUDENT MENTOR PROGRAM FOR FULL-TIME FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN
<p>The post secondary educational system has come under increased scrutiny due to rising costs and lower numbers than expected of students graduating with their Bachelor's degrees. Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of student mentoring programs as a viable resource to …
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Progression and Completion Rates of Remedial Students in a Community College Setting
… analyzed progression and completion rates of first-time freshmen college students who were placed into remedial courses and those who were placed into college level courses. The cohort was made up of first-time freshmen students who enrolled in the fall of 2013 at a rural community college in …
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Illuminating liminal spaces : a phenomenological investigation of Hispanic students' first-year experiences at a four-year university with prior dual credits
… taking shape in the U.S. to help low-income and first-generation students of color gain access to four-year colleges and universities is the creation of dual enrollment high school programs (Hoffman, 2003). Proponents of this model believe that by changing the structure of high schools, from the …
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Use of the College Student Inventory to Predict At-Risk Student Success and Persistence at a Metropolitan University
… and permanent residents entering UNT as at-risk first-time freshmen admitted via individual approval for the fall 1994 semester. The 409 subjects were enrolled in a developmental course titled Personal and Academic Effectiveness where the CSI was administered during the first 2 weeks of class. …
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Barriers to participation in educational programs as perceived by first-time enrolling freshmen in higher education
… retain students, one must consider the barriers first-time freshmen encounter in the pursuit of formal learning as they enter college. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to determine the perceived barriers to educational participation held by first-time enrolling college freshmen at …
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Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition
… (Bettinger & Long, 2005). Approximately 42% of first-time freshmen at community colleges must enroll in at least one developmental education course in English, reading and/or math (NCES, 2010). Many developmental education students are unsuccessful in passing a developmental education course in …
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Addressing Articulation and Common Language between 11th and 12th Grade 'English Language Arts and College-Level English in the California Community College
… (CSU) system. In 2012, 18,690 (33%) CSU first-time freshmen system-wide needed remediation in English. Because of the high rate of remediation among California students in postsecondary institutions, questions have been raised concerning the disconnect between high school English and math …
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A Descriptive Study of Students Who Were Accepted for Admission at West Texas A&M University But Did Not Enroll
… been admitted. The subjects of the study were first-time freshmen accepted for admission to a mid-size, public, southwestern university who did not enroll for the fall 1997 semester. Statistically significant differences were found when comparing no-shows and enrolled students by gender, …
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Ready to Write: Exploring the Student Perspective on the Transition to College
… perspective. The research team included 20 first-time freshmen college students and one instructor/university researcher in a first semester Written Communication I course. Research data consisted of a survey, journals, discussion board posts, partner dialogues, final research papers and …