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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"university environment"”.
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Improving waste sorting behavior in a university environment with visual prompt stimulus
… was to examine how well people at Reykjavík University were sorting waste under the current instructions and see if addition of prompt intervention would improve waste sorting. Participants in the study were students, staff and visitors at the university building during data collection. The …
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A computer-based DSS for funds management in a large state university environment
… modeling and goal programming, to assist top university financial officers in assessing the current status of funds sources and uses. The purpose of the DSS is to aid in reaching decisions concerning proposed projects, and to allocate funds from sources to uses on an aggregate basis according …
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Effects of freshman orientation on academic achievement and student perceptions of the university environment
… academic achievement and perceptions of campus environment. The initial research sample consisted of 155 students randomly selected from 328 freshmen entering Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, for the first time in the fall term, 1980. Fifty-two students were randrn1v selected to participated …
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Challenges in implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system in large organizations : similarities and differences between corporate and university environment
… of ERP implementation between corporate and university environment. I review previous studies that determine Critical Successful Factors (CSFs) and risk factors to implement ERP in both environments. Particularly, case studies in this thesis emphasize the organizational dynamics involved in …
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Examining the role of the university environment, cultural congruity, social support, and self-efficacy on the academic persistence of black students attending predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges or universities
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The present study incorporated the person-environment fit theory (PE Fit; Lewin, 1938; Parsons, 1909), retention and attrition theories (Bean, 1980; Tinto, 1975), and social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, …
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Diverse Students' Perceptions of Cultural Congruity and Environment at a University
… successful in a large western private university. Utilizing the Cultural Congruity Scale (CCS) and University Environment Scale (UES), this study analyzed the perceptions of 28 students who are ethnically diverse and enrolled in the Culturally Responsive Special Education/ESL Program. …
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Investigação sobre parâmetros de projeto de sistemas de recuperação da informação: abordagem teórica e aplicação prática em um ambiente universitário
… to the system. Practical application to an university environment, taking Metallurgy as area of knowledge and using collected data at Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas and Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, with special focus on acquisition and dissemination.
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An examination of perceived undergraduate student social support at a two-year institution in the United States southwest : a quantitative study.
… survey with the Social Provisions Scale and University Environment Scales, I examined if perceived social support varied between ethnicity and gender among undergraduate college students at a two-year institution in the southwestern United States. Using four independent samples t tests, the …
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Minority Status Stress: factors that impact its effect on the psychological and academic functioning of African American students attending a predominantly white university
… American students at a predominantly white university. Eighty African American undergraduate and graduate students were administered self report questionnaires to assess their standing on the relevant variables. Path analytic techniques supported a linear relationship in which sociocultural …
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The Effects of Participation in a Student Development Mentoring-Transcript Program on Freshmen University Students
… Mentoring-Transcript Program on freshmen University students, (b) to ascertain the perceived value of participation in such a program for University students, (c) to develop recommendations regarding the implementation of mentoring-transcript programs at colleges and universities, and (d) …
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A phenomenological investigation of challenges and coping mechanisms associated with the transition from high school to university
While entering the university is often a wonderful experience to a number of students, to some students it is very a challenging exposure to a degree where they even end up discontinuing their studies. This study was concerned with the challenges and coping mechanisms that students used as they …
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The impact of the academic psychological contract on job performance and satisfaction
… exists in terms of its application to the university environment, with very few studies identifying what the factors of an “academic psychological contract” could be (Krivokapic-Skoko & O’Neill ,2008; Shen, 2010). This is surprising as Taylor’s Making Sense of Academic Life (1999) evaluates …
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Culture of Obesity
… dissertation sought to critically analyze the university environment by examining how the representation practices of corporations articulate with the growing obesity epidemic. For this study, existing data from one southeastern university was collected to describe the articulation between the …
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The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers
<p> The language on university websites and the policies provided by Disability Services provide material for a rhetorical analysis addressing the marginalization of students with disabilities on college campuses. In this thesis, I discuss the degree to which university distributed texts …
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The University Experiences of Post-9/11 Native American Veterans: Strategic Support For Inclusion, Retention, & Success
… Student Veterans navigate the collegiate environment and balance their military and indigenous identities within the context of higher education. Through the individual voices of five Post-9/11 Native American Student Veterans, the results of this study illustrate their decision-making …
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An investigation into the performance and problems of first-year engineering students at the University of Cape Town
… and the academic and social systems of the university. The dominant feature that emerged was one of distance between the individual students and elements of the university environment, including staff, fellow students and the academic material. Factors from the student's personal and …
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Self-Advocacy Experiences of College Students with Learning Disabilities and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… of self-advocacy in the post-secondary learning environment to effectively guide students in the development of this complex set of skills. This study was designed to describe the experience of college students with LD and/or ADHD as they advocate for themselves in the college or university …
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