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- Title
- Sociomaterial texts, spaces and devices : Questioning ‘digital dualism’ in library and study practices
- Author
- Lanclos, Donna M., 1970-, Gourlay, Lesley, Oliver, Martin, 1973-
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Libraries
- Description
- Work on students' study practices posits the digital and material as separate domains, with the ‘digital’ assumed to be disembodied, decontextualised and free-floating, and spaces in the material campus positioned as prototypically ‘traditional’ a...
- Title
- Students' Perceptions of Motivation and Use of Metacognitive Self-regulated Learning Strategies in Remote Asynchronous Elementary Spanish Classes
- Author
- Esparragoza, Rosalba
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of the study was to investigate whether intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, task value, metacognitive self-regulation, self-efficacy for learning, and cumulative GPA predicts academic success among college students enrolled in ...
- Title
- Students’ writing success at the University of North Carolina Charlotte : the effects of advanced placement exemptions
- Author
- Mitchell, Angela
- Date Created
- 2022, 2022, 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Advanced placement test series, Education, Higher
- Title
- THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCES OF INTERNATIONAL BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE
- Author
- Talley Matthews, Sheikia
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- ABSTRACT. Institutions of higher education in the United States enroll the largest number of international students in the world each year (Bain & Cummings, 2005). In 2014-2015, the United States hosted 974,926 international students from around t...
- Title
- THE IMPACT OF SENSE OF BELONGING INTERVENTIONS ON SOCIAL INTEGRATION AT A SMALL, PRIVATE INSTITUTION
- Author
- Perrell, Amber
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- Higher education institutions continue to struggle with encouraging retention for first-year students. Prior research has shown that establishing social integration during the first-year of college is a crucial component of a successful transition...
- Title
- The Association of Frequency of Utilizing Student Services with Student Success at a Community College
- Author
- Kendra-Dill, Zachary
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- As colleges work to meet performance standards, staff have been placed in key service areas to help students be successful. With the majority of the seven million community college students attending part-time, needing developmental education, and...
- Title
- The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
- Author
- Grubbs, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...
- Title
- The Effect of an Experiential Learning Activity on Counselor Trainees' Empathy and Attitudes Towards Substance Abuse
- Author
- MacLeod, Bailey
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Education, Higher
- Description
- Substance use disorders are becoming more prevalent in the United States. CACREP-accredited counseling programs recently added a requirement for the training of skills, knowledge, and awareness of substance use disorders to counseling training pro...
- Title
- The Multiple Writing Genres of Online Learning: Students' Experience of Writing in the Online Classroom Space
- Author
- Wilson, Lynn
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Rhetoric, Educational technology
- Description
- Based upon theories of computer mediated communication of Herring and Lemke and the work of genre scholars such as Askehave, Santini, and Devitt, this qualitative study explored how computer mediated communication shapes writing genres in an onlin...
- Title
- The Transfer Seminar: Measured Impacts on Transfer Student Outcomes
- Author
- Swintal, Andrea
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
- Description
- The volume of transfer students across college and university campuses in the United States continues to rise; however, institutions continue to struggle with identifying and applying best practices that encourage these students to earn their bacc...
- Title
- The effect of multiple interventions on freshman college student engagement and retention
- Author
- Lehmuller, Peter
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- College student retention has been widely studied in the past twenty five years, and institutions have developed numerous interventions aimed at improving student retention and persistence-to-degree. A number of theories have been promulgated to e...
- Title
- To Be Young, Black, and Resilient: Navigating a Predominantly White University
- Author
- Strickland, Jasmine
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Ethnology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The current study examines how Black undergraduate students at a predominantly White university respond to the racism they encounter on campus. Specifically, the case study seeks to identify (a) the response strategies that Black undergraduate stu...
- Title
- Trauma, Emotional Distress, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Greek Affiliation, and Year-in-School as Predictors of Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs Among Undergraduate College Students.
- Author
- Jeffs, Patrick
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Counseling psychology, Public health, Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to identity how events perceived as traumatic or very difficult to handle, factors of emotional distress, and demographics may predict nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMPD) among traditional undergraduate colleg...
- Title
- Understanding the Complexities of Advising Transfer Students in an Institution-Driven System
- Author
- Holliday-Millard, Paul
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher, Educational leadership
- Description
- Nationally, while the majority of community college students indicate a desire to transfer to a four-year college or university, many of them fail to do so (Horn & Skomsvold, 2011; Hossler et al., 2012; Jenkins & Fink, 2015; Shapiro et al., 2013)....
- Title
- Using Narrative Advising Theory in Interpreting the Roles of Advisors and Guides in African American Young Adult Literature
- Author
- Kelley, Gina
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- English literature, Education, Higher, African literature
- Description
- Telling stories has been a popular method of how humans connect interactively and serve a purpose to educate, entertain, influence, warn, and illustrate. In African-American young adult (YA) literature, there are guides that dish out valuable advi...
- Title
- VALIDITY OF THE 2013 NSSE ENGAGEMENT INDICATOR MODEL FOR PERSISTING TRANSFER STUDENTS: A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS STUDY
- Author
- Le, Thanh
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
- Description
- The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (2015) reported that there were 2.4 million student transitions from one institution to another over a six-year period between 2008 and 2014. According to the Student Achievement Measure (SAM, n.d...
- Title
- Vietnamese American College Students’ Racial/Ethnic Identity Development and Campus Engagement Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
- Author
- Nguyen, Nhu
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Higher, Area studies
- Description
- Prior studies on student engagement in U.S. higher education focused mainly on the experiences of Black and White students (Meyer, 2014). Southeast Asian American students also face challenges regarding engagement on campus. Due to the influence o...
- Title
- WHO I AM IN STEM: BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN, A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT, AND A STEM MAJOR
- Author
- Dounebaine, Yolanda
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Science--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative research study utilized the stories of ten African American community college STEM transfer students to explore STEM identity formation, the role race played in this identity formation, the educational experiences that influenced ...
- Title
- What happens after transfer : engagement and success of transfer students at UNC Charlotte
- Author
- D'Amico, Mark, Dika, Sandra, Elling, Theodore W., Algozzine, Bob
- Subjects--Topical
- Transfer students, Education, Higher
- Description
- With the recent emphasis on college completion in institutions, states, and higher education policy environments (see, e.g., Lee et al., 2011; Reyna, 2010; Shapiro et al., 2012), it is important that colleges and universities work to ensure the su...
- Title
- Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Transfer Experience
- Author
- Slane, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- As the entry point into higher education for over half of the bachelor’s degree earners, (Trapani & Hale, 2019), community colleges are positioned to have a positive impact of bringing a more diverse student group into science, technology, enginee...