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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"success outcomes"”.
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The Impact Of Orientation Programming On Student Success Outcomes At A Rural Community College
… colleges work diligently to improve student success outcomes. Programs, services, and initiatives need to be developed and implemented that will increase student retention. Orientation is an important intervention service that can help new students to acclimate and make a more successful …
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Self -determination and success outcomes of two -year college students with disabilities: An integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches
… to transition initiatives and positive adult outcomes for individuals with disabilities. To date, the Self-Determination Movement has made few in-roads into higher education, and a relationship between the success of college students with disabilities and self-determination remains largely …
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Faring better or worse: A quantitative analysis of student success outcomes of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at Eastern Michigan University
<p>Intergenerational poverty is a problem of immense concern within the African American community, where approximately 32% of children under the age of 18 reside in impoverished conditions. Although acquisition of a college degree is the sole determining factor most influential for social mobility …
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Transfer pathways in higher education: exploring differences between pathway and nonpathway student success after university transfer in one state system
… aimed toward improving student retention and success. Despite this, increases in student enrollment and degree completions have not increased. In 2009, the federal American Graduation Initiative began with the goal to achieve 10 million more U.S. citizens with postsecondary credentials by …
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Success Oriented Strategies Employed by Middle-Class African American Families: A Focus on Positive Racial Identity Development and Socialization
… of children in ways that promote achievement and success outcomes, with a primary focus on those strategies that foster positive racial identity development and socialization. Employing a qualitative ethnographic case study approach, including oral histories, this study draws on participant …
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Towards the Development, Application, and Evaluation of the Student Success - Oriented System Design Methodology
… complexities associated with enhancing student success in higher education (Berger & Lyon, 2005). This research has resulted in a better understanding of why some students decide to leave while others persist on to graduation. Despite a sizable body of knowledge that has identified the various …
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Fulfilling the college promise: moving from access to completion for second-year promise students at Long Beach City College
… college promise program and student persistence, success, and completions at Long Beach City College (LBCC) through a Completion by Design framework. Participants for this study included college promise program students from cohort years 2013, 2014, and 2015 with a control group identified using …
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Exploring the use of non-cognitive factors in predicting college academic outcomes
… set of variables to predict academic success among new college students. Traditional cognitive predictors include high school grade point average and ACT scores. The non-cognitive factors of interest were grit, goal orientation, and academic self-efficacy. It was hypothesized that the …
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Social skill in the workplace : what is social skill and how does it matter?
… which can in turn lead to effective job outcomes. Although the change in organizational structures and the importance of social skill have heightened awareness of social skill in organizational outcomes, little is known about what social skill is and its role in influencing work outcomes. …
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A Model Of Nontraditional College Student Motivation And Success
… student high attrition rates and overall success beyond what their demographic characteristics reveal? The purpose of this study was to examine the role of achievement motivation in predicting nontraditional student college success using the expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983) …
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Sustaining Enrollment of Black Men in College: The Positive Effects of Student Support Services
… effectively improve retention rates and student success outcomes for black male students. This study will examine the importance and benefits of student support programs that focus on improving retention for black male students as they matriculate through college to graduation. Programs such as …
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Educational equity for all : a qualitative case study exploring the perceptions of Hispanic parents regarding parental engagement at a rural Title I high school in Southwest Texas.
… Parental involvement increases the chances of success for K–12 students from racially minoritized groups and assists educators in fostering equitable education for all students (Epstein, 1995; Hoover‐Dempsey et al., 2005). Emphasizing parental involvement is necessary to reduce the achievement …
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Empirical Investigation of Factors that Affect the Successful Implementation of Performance Measurement Systems
… improvement in organizational performance and success as well as the difficulty of actually obtaining these results. A review of the literature suggests that most applications of PM systems prove to be less effective than the design suggests or, in some cases, may fail to be institutionalized. …
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Game Types, Game-Related Behaviors and Resilience: Creating a Roadmap for Effective Gamification Design in Higher Education
… and motivation for tasks related to student success, research regarding best practices for the design of such systems is lacking. In fact, conflicting outcomes from various gamification studies at the secondary and tertiary education levels suggest that not all gamification designs are …
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Development of an Ontology for Project Management Success Criteria and Associated Technical and Personal Competencies in an Australian Engineering Context.
… issues such as how to define and measure project success, the constitution of a successful project outcomes, and the competencies needed for project managers to be successful. This research aims to develop an ontology to define successful project outcomes, and the associated technical and personal …
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Blended Learning and Bottlenecks in the California State University System: An Empirical Look at the Importance of Demographic and Performance Analytics
… and performance analytics explain student success outcomes in a popular blended learning psychology course, an explanatory sequential design was used to study 18,254 students enrolled in the course between 2006 and 2014. In the initial quantitative part of the design, logistic regression …
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The Lebanese Diaspora: An Exploration of Assimilation and Success in the United States
… entrepreneurs worldwide have proven to be very successful in a variety of contexts. However, while there is evidence suggesting that the Lebanese diaspora has been among the most successful around the world, the reasons for this success have not yet been systematically studied. For this reason, …
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Performance-based funding: Perspectives of community college leaders’ in Texas on its influence on student success initiatives
… other 10% of formula funding based on student success points that students achieve after completing each of the performance-based funding (PBF) milestones. The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that state funding for community colleges had declined by 12% across the United States. …
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Team approaches to developing innovative products and processes
… or process developments and for enhancing their success. Case studies were conducted in 25 UK companies, focusing on environmental technology projects. Research findings emphasised the diversity of organisational team approaches which were more complex when several departments, teams or companies …
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Financing hope: the impact of state and institutional financial aid on undocumented student persistence and success in Texas
… well established as a key component to student success outcomes, such as persistence and degree attainment, the impact of financial aid on undocumented college students remained unexamined. This study used logistic regression analysis to test a composite conceptual framework on public, …
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