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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"non-traditional students"”.
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Recruitment of Non-traditional Students to Agricultural Degrees
… of post-secondary institutions recruitment of non-traditional agricultural students to agricultural degrees. Only 1.3% of the U. S. population holds direct on-farm employment. As the population slowly becomes disconnected from traditional agricultural lifestyles, the challenge will be …
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Work-Family-School Conflict Among Non-traditional Students
… subject of work-family-school (WFS) conflict for nontraditional students. This study assessed the relationship between non-traditional students’ age, gender, and perceived level of support and their level of WFS conflict. It was predicted that older students would report higher levels of conflict …
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Open Enrollment in Advanced Placement Courses: Experiences of Traditional and Non-Traditional Students
… in the late 1990's, amongst concern that traditionally underrepresented groups of students such as minorities and low income students had been denied the opportunity to enroll in AP courses, The College Board (the non profit agency that runs the AP program) began to emphasize its belief …
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Problems encountered by non-traditional students enrolled in sex-typed secondary vocational education programs
… of this study was to identify problems which non-traditional students enrolled in sex-typed vocational education programs in four school divisions in a large metropolitan area have encountered as a result of such enrollment and the impact of those problems on the student. Specifically, …
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Improving the achievements of non-traditional students on computing courses at one wide access university
… the retention and achievements of diverse students on computing courses in one wide access university, firstly by early identification of students at risk of poor performance and secondly by developing and implementing an intervention programme. Qualitative data were obtained using the …
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The Lived Experience of Non-traditional Students in the Occupational Science Program at Eastern Kentucky University
… study was to discover the lived experience of non-traditional students in the OS program at EKU. The findings of this research will allow faculty, staff, and other students to gain an understanding of this population of students and their perspective and experience. </p> <p>To reach the …
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Work-school conflict of non-traditional students: The application of a work and personal characteristics model
… popular trend around the world and the number of nontraditional students are increasing. As a result of working and studying simultaneously, workschool conflict tends to occur. There is still some debate as to which characteristics across the personal and work domains most significantly influence …
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The Effect Of Web-Based Learning On Retention Of Non-traditional Students in a Rural Comprehensive University
… effects web-based courses effect retention of nontraditional students. Gender, student classification, first generation, and ACT composite scores were used as predictor variables for the purpose of this study. Data were collected from the university's BANNER system. The analysis of the results …
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Academic Persistence and Attrition Among Freshman Traditional and Non-Traditional Students at a Public Midwestern Commuter University
… their relation to attrition rates of freshman students at a public Midwestern commuter university.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> A quantitative research methodology based on empirical data collection was used utilizing a 101-question research instrument consisting of two sections: student …
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Non-Academic Factors that Predict Persistence of Non-Traditional Students Attending Community College in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… indicate that there are almost twelve million students enrolled in the community college system (AACC, 2010). Over the years many changes have occurred that affect who attends community college, no change more<br />significant than the focus on meeting the needs of a diverse population. Many …
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An analysis of the relationship between psychosocial safety climate and the work-school-interface for non-traditional students in South Africa
… on this investment. It is also a global phenomenon that an increasing number of fulltime employees are also engaging in formal further studies due to the rapid changes in the labour market. For example, advancements in technology have had a major impact on traditional business models and the …
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An Examination of the Perceptions of Louisiana Technical College Traditional and Non-Traditional Students and Faculty Regarding Effective Teaching Behaviors in Office Systems Technology Programs
The purpose of this study was to ascertain non-traditional students', traditional students', and their faculty's perceptions as to effective teaching behaviors in the office systems technology programs on six of the campuses of the Louisiana Technical College and to determine any significant …
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An exploration of the role of coaching in supporting non-traditional students in higher education in the UK : the perspectives of the students and their coaches
… and ensuring fair access to universities for non-traditional students has been a key policy objective for successive governments in the UK since the late 1990’s. In spite of the relative success of policies and strategies to increase and retain the number of non-traditional students accessing …
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Issues for non-traditional undergraduate students living in traditional college and university residence halls : a modified Delphi study
… which impact the residential experience for non-traditional undergraduate students living in traditional college and university residence halls. Non-traditional students were defined as students twenty-five years of age or older. The study utilized two distinct research methods; a demographic …
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Resilience, complete mental health and academic achievement in traditional and non-traditional first year psychology students
… Australian higher education in the late 1980s, students from historically under-represented backgrounds (i.e., ‘non-traditional’ students) have become increasingly the norm. While some argue that widening participation is problematic, research regarding the relationships between non-traditional …
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Qualitative Exploration of Timeliness of Pursuits of Higher Education By non-Traditional Female Baccalaureate Students In West Virginia
… education by females who were classified as non-traditional students at Concord College in southern West Virginia. The researcher studied females, educated in West Virginia, who had completed at least 30 semester hours, and who were at least 25 years of age at the time of admission. The study …
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Assessing Knowledge Acquisition Through Lecture and Cooperative Learning: Traditional and Non-traditional Secondary Students in Agriculture
<p>Currently, students entering secondary agricultural education programs have less knowledge and hands-on experience about agriculture than previous generations. Agricultural educators are challenged to vary teaching practices to meet student needs. The purpose of this study was to determine if …
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Examining Indigenous Students’ Persistence in a Hybrid Pre-Nursing Transitions Environment
Transitions programs to support non-traditional students have been in existence in Canada since the educational reform movement of the 1970s (Malatest & Associates, 2004). Scholarly research in the success of such programs is frequently presented in terms of institutional directives such as …
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"The relative autonomy of reading practices by critical, cultural, and social formations: An ethnographic and textual analysis of re-entry women students' interpretations of ""Educating Rita"""
… it has sought to discover how re-entry women students' interpretive practices of a film about a British working class woman's hunger for a university education articulate filmic structures of meaning to gender and to social class ""habitus."" The study asked these non-traditional students to …
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