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Factors Associated With Retention Rates In Career And Technical Educat
… programs use the web. This study examined retention rates in courses from Fall 1997 through Fall 2003 within web-based courses in a CTE teacher preparation program at the University of Central Florida to identify factors associated with student retention. Three research questions emerged …
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Improving Retention Rates of Teachers Through Analysis of Second-Career Educators
<p>Teacher retention rates have been an issue in education for decades. New teachers continue to leave the field at an alarming rate, despite research and attempts to improve their retention. This study focuses on the population of second-career educators and their reasons for remaining in the …
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Visual Cueing: Investigating the Effects of Text Annotation on Student Retention Rates
This Study examines the grades of students using study skill methods and those who do not. The experiment consists of giving the treatment group the opportunity to use well- known study techniques. The Control group could only read the material. Both groups were given ten minutes to read a …
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Campus recreation and its impact on grade point average and retention rates
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Iowa's community college transfer students, 1996-2000: demographics, graduation, and retention rates
… at graduation or time of exit, graduation rates, and attrition rates, stratified by ACT scores, gender, and college major. CC transfer students' grade point average (GPA) at graduation was statistically lower than the NT students' graduation GPA (2.83, vs. 3.09, t(1348df) = -11.33, p < …
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Comparison of Retention Rates of Courses Taught in Traditional, Online, and Hybrid Format
Due to low retention rates, most states have now based community college funding on a combination of student enrollment and student retention. Student satisfaction is a primary factor that contributes to overall student success, retention, and completion, all of which contribute to the …
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A Study Of Retention Rates Among Non-Resident Students Enrolled In Freshman Retention Programs
… determine the relationship between two freshman retention programs, cohort-based and non-cohort based freshman year experience (fye) courses, and the retention of academically less-prepared, non-resident students at a Southern University (SU). Structured interviews with open-ended questions were …
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The influence of teacher resilience on retention rates in high-poverty, high-minority schools.
Teacher turnover is on the rise due to job dissatisfaction. Factors leading to job dissatisfaction include increased demands on student accountability, increased workload, teacher victimization, and a lack of administrative support. Teachers today must possess the ability to endure and overcome …
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Test-Retest Reliability of Individual Student Acquisition and Retention Rates as Measured by Instructional Assessment
… of acquisition, and the students were tested for retention 1 to 3 days later. After an interval of 14 days, the same students were again individually taught different words from the Esperanto list using the Incremental Rehearsal technique until interference occurred, and they were again tested for …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE POST 9/11 GI BILL TRANSFER ENTITLEMENT ON NAVY ENLISTED RETENTION RATES
… to the PGIB to mitigate the expected loss of retention caused by the generous benefits in the PGIB program. This thesis focuses on the impact that the Transfer Entitlement has on retention and the current and long-term cost of this provision. The effects of the Transfer Entitlement on the …
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Study of referral sources, patient retention rates and patient satisfaction in the Victoria University osteopathic clinic
Background: Patient satisfaction has been identified as a critical success factor in the sustained long term success of practices in the health care industry. The Victoria University Osteopathy Clinic (VUOC) is a clinic, which provides a competitively priced, high quality service yet suffers …
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A comparison of retention rates of adolescent males in all-male and mixed gender beginning choral ensembles
Recruitment and retention of adolescent male singers in choral ensembles is a problem facing music educators across America. Middle school programs have slowly transitioned to include all-male ensembles in seventh and eighth grade, but there are still questions as to whether the beginning choral …
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An Evaluation of Knowledge Gains and Retention Rates of 5Th Grade Students After Attendance at a Watershed Festival
… a pre-test (n=347), a post-test (n=679), and a retention-test (n=207). The pre-test was given prior to the students attending the Watershed Festival, the post-test immediately afterwards, with the retention-test taken two months after. Students scored significantly higher after attending a …
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Exploring Predicted Vs. Actual First to-Second Year Retention Rates: A Study of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Colleges
<p>Retention of students is a critical area of much needed attention on nearly every college campus. It is important to students who want to succeed in college and beyond, to institutions that desire high efficiency and prestige, and increasingly to state and federal leaders. Retention of students …
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The Effect of Learning Communities on Freshman Student Retention Rates and GPA at a Public 4-Year Institution of Higher Education
… freshmen at Eastern Kentucky University) on the retention and first-year grade point average of first-time, full-time freshmen at the university. The study specifically examined students enrolled in GSD 101Z and ENG 101Z (the learning communities sections) in the Fall 2014 semester versus the …
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The Effects of a Varied Method of Instruction on Student Achievement, Transfer, Situational Interest, and Course Retention Rates in Community College Developmental Mathematics
… transfer, situational interest, and course retention rates, relative to a non-varied method of instruction, in community college developmental mathematics. The varied method of instruction consisted of active learning teaching practices with foundations in social constructivism, whereas the …
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A Formal Mentoring Program and its Relationship to Academic Success and Retention Rates of First-Time Freshman College Students at Walla Walla University
… not return their sophomore year. The attrition rates represent an astounding loss of resources for the institution and in many cases a devastating loss of time, money, and self-worth for the students. Across the United States a concerted effort is being made to develop mentoring programs for …
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A Study of First-Time Full-Time Freshmen's Attributes and Their Associations with Fall-to-Fall Retention Rates at a Two-Year Public Community College.
… full-time freshmen's attributes and fall-to-fall retention at Northeast State Technical Community College. The 15 attributes included age, first-generation student status, gender, high school classification, race, the student's application date to the institution relative to the start of the …
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Principal and Teacher Perceptions on Practices that Impact Teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention in Title I Elementary Schools with High Teacher Retention Rates in a Large Suburban Central Virginia School Division
… declining teacher job satisfaction and teacher retention. Teachers are leaving high poverty, high minority schools for more affluent schools (Hanushek et al., 2004). The challenge of retaining quality teachers affects schools with diverse populations and high poverty, thus contributing to …
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Collegiate Academic Enhancement Programs: The Benefits of Multi-Year Programs Compared to the Benefits of One-Year Programs for Traditionally Underrepresented Students
<p>Student retention rates and graduation rates currently play a major role in measuring the success of institutions of higher education. To contribute to the likelihood of this success many institutions offer programs designed to increase the academic performance of their students especially those …
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