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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"women students"”.
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Mature Women Students and Their University Experience
This research study included 12 women - six who were in the process of obtaining their degree and six who had obtained their degree, for at least 10 years, from the same mid-sized Canadian university. All of the women were at least 30 years of age at the commencement of their program. This research …
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Access and Inclusion: Women Students at VPI, 1914-1964
… called during the period of study. The date for women's full-time admission came in 1921, but this thesis argues that, in the process of coeducation, the date for official access represents only one marker for VPI. Since women had taken courses during the summer before 1921 and did not encounter …
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Making meaning in academic writing: mature women students in higher education
… a tutor working with so called 'non-traditional' students studying on higher education courses. The central focus is the experience of making meaning in academic writing of ten women students with whom I met on an individual basis over a period of between 1 and 3 years to talk about specific …
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Designing a social website to encourage networking among women students at conferences
The percentage of women participating in computer science has been disturbingly low, and the number of computer and information science degrees earned by women has been on a downward trend. Several conferences have been put in place to address this issue, but networking at these conferences is …
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Sex Role Conflict and Academic Achievement: A Study of Superior Women Students
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:44:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114995.pdf: 8640398 bytes, checksum: 252cf251493743b35a634ebfefbeb869 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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The Administration of Women Students in Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States
… solution to the problem of the administration of women students in Catholic colleges and universities in the United States has been made by the various institutions where women are enrolled in sufficiently large numbers to indicate the existence of such a problem. Co-educational colleges and …
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Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge
… attention was given to the experiences of Black women at elite universities. Media and publications exploring the experiences of Black women at Oxbridge have since emphasised the process of taking up space, which often entails occupying spaces Black women have been historically discounted from or …
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What Factors Support Degree Completion For African American Women Students At A Land-Grant Historically Black College University (HBCU)?
… minimal research conducted on African American women degree completion who attend a land-grant HBCU. This study investigated key factors that assisted 9 African American women and promoted their degree attainment. My research utilized the ethnography framework to observe a specific culture …
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Particular Constructs of Self-Concept that are Associated with Self-Directedness Among Selected Women Students Enrolled at a Community College
… between particular aspects of community college women's self-concept and self-directedness. It also attempted to identify differences that may occur by age, and educational attainment. Specifically, the study investigated the relationship of a measure of each of five self-concept constructs, as …
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Up Close and Personal: Using Narrative Inquiry to Examine the Persistance Strategies Utilized by Non-Traditional African American Women Students At A Traditionally Oriented University
… (NCES), nearly half of the enrolled college students in the United States of America (USA) are 24 years of age or older. Over one-third are at least 35 years old, which translates into over four million students being a part of growing mature and/or non-traditional student population. Women …
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The struggles and triumphs of the invisible subject: the experiences of mature women students caring for those with learning disabilities whilst studying in Higher Education
… emotional and financial costs, especially for women with caring responsibilities, which presents challenges and restrictions for them when participating in activities outside the care-giving domain, such as engagement in education. Against these odds and despite the considerable demand caring …
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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"""
… analysis, 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 …
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Flexibility Change in Students of Dance as Compared to Students in Other Physical Education Activity Classes
… study was to determine flexibility changes in women students enrolled in a modern dance class as compared to flexibility changes in women students enrolled in badminton, golf, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and bowling classes, as measured by the bend and reach test.
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Teacher and student interaction patterns in the college classroom and the impact of gender
Previous research has shown that female students participate less often than male students in the interactions of the college classroom. Research findings also have suggested that women students interact less because some teachers differentially treat men and women students. Particular findings …
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