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Showing 1 to 20 of 396 for “"freshman"”.
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The freshman experience
The purpose of this exploratory research was to investigate if change in sexual risk-taking behavior between high school and college can be predicted as a function of the interaction of person and situation traits. College, conceptualized as a backspace (situation) construct, and personality traits …
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The Perception of the Freshman Transition: Taking a Closer Look at the Freshman Academy
… of the high school transition program within a Freshman Academy at one Midwest high school using a mixed-methods approach with a convergent design. Interviews were done with teachers that teach primarily freshman students, and perception surveys were used with teachers, students, and parents to …
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The high school freshman transition
The purpose of the study was to identify the student’s perspective of the difficulties of transitioning from eighth grade to high school. The intent of gathering this information was to provide primary source data for additional study and development of effective transition experiences for students …
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Revision Cues : A Study of Freshman Writers
… individual freshmen and a class sized group of freshman writers provided data for the study. All drafts and jotting related to the writings as well as tape recordings of interviews and composing aloud sessions were analyzed on a matrix which tabulated responses to cues on the basis of process, …
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Freshman Academies: A Study of Student Outcomes.
… point in students' lives. The addition of a Freshman Academy in some schools has targeted the 9th grade year to ease students' transition to high school and increase the likelihood of academic success.</p><p>One purpose of this study is to compare student outcomes of schools that have …
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Freshman Academy: Making the High School Transition
<p>Numerous freshman transition programs are conducted throughout the nation to address the middle school to high school transition issue. The current study focuses on a high school transition model, the Freshman Academy, to improve ninth-grade attendance, academic achievement, and school …
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The role of literature in teaching freshman composition
The freshman course in "writing about literature" is a metaphor of the profession of English. Political disagreements with English departments, vocational pressures exerted from outside the English department, and philosophical differences among composition specialists intersect in the composition …
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Corrective reading and study program for college freshman
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1946. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Improving the freshman electrical and computer engineering lab
This thesis covers the challenges of creating and maintaining an introductory engineering laboratory. The history of the University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering department’s introductory course, ECE 110, is recounted. The current state of the course, as of Fall 2008, is discussed …
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Eating Disorder Risk in Subgroups of College Freshman Women
… college major at the initial collection during freshman year. The sample size of 1,924 was used to see if subgroups of college majors had a heightened risk. Twenty groups composed of similar majors were studied. The majors of Dance, Dietetics, Physical Education, and Communications had …
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A New Freshman Composition Pedagogy for Christian Colleges and Universities
Freshman composition instructors at Christian institutions face a disturbing predicament: competing pedagogies, administrative pressure to prove freshman composition’s merit, public clamoring for greater return on the college investment, technology redefining what “writing” is, a postmodern …
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The Relationship Between Freshman College Student Satisfaction and College Adjustment
… this study, I explored the relationship between freshman college student satisfaction and college adjustment. Using the College Student Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSSQ) and the College Adjustment Scale (CAS), the "Interpersonal Problems" subscale was found to be moderately predictive of college …
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The freshman orientation course in the Oakdale Union High School
<p>The investigator has undertaken this study to determine whether the present orientation course at Oakdale High School meets the needs of youth whom it serves.</p><p>Interest in the problem was aroused through controversy form time to time regarding the practicability of such a course as part of …
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Comparing screencast feedback to written feedback in freshman composition courses
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Information Literacy: A Study of Freshman Students' Perceptions, with Recommendations
… better understanding of what kind of information freshman students at Virginia Tech need and how they acquire it during their first semester at college. Students were asked questions about their information use during fall semester 2000, using both email questioning and in face-to-face interviews. …
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Comparative Achievement of Students in a Freshman Academy with Those Not in a Freshman Academy by Race and Gender in One East Tennessee High School.
… achievement of students who participated in a freshman academy program to the achievement of those who participated in the traditional high school curriculum. The researcher used grade point average and composite ACT score as determinants of achievement. The population consisted of the …
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A Comparison of the Impact of a Freshman Experience Program Provided for College-Bound High School Students versus a Freshman Experience Program Completed as College Freshmen.
… State Community College began an initiative, the Freshman Experience program, to ease some of the strains associated with the transition process and, in 1993, began offering this course to high school seniors. The program was expanded and offered to seniors at 23 high schools in a rural 10-county …
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College Freshman Biology Two Semester Course: Integrating Deep Processing Teaching Techniques
Development of a college level freshman biology course was undertaken in response to government reports that American students have fallen behind students of other countries in the area of the sciences. Teaching strategies were investigated to accomplish two objectives, to define essential academic …
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(Re)Building Cultural, Community, and Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina
Composition studies has become increasingly focused on the connection between place, identity, and the act of writing, maintaining, as theorist Nedra Reynolds states, that “where writing instruction takes place has everything to do with how†(20). Considering the social, political, and cultural …
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Writer with more at stake : returning adults in the freshman composition classroom
… are required to take two or three terms of freshman composition. Although returning students may be apprehensive at first, their teachers report that many are highly motivated and perform successfully in these required writing courses. To investigate this phenomenon, I studied the attitude …
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