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- 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
- The Relationship of Learning Communities to Engineering Students' Perceptions of the Freshman Year Experience, Academic Performance, and Persistence
- Author
- Tolley, Patricia
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Curriculum planning
- Description
- The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the effects of a residential learning community and enrollment in an introductory engineering course to engineering students' perceptions of the freshman year experience, academic performance,...
- Title
- Investigation of a Nursing Career Counseling Program in a Community College
- Author
- Hedgpeth, Ruth
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Nursing, Health education
- Description
- ABSTRACT Balancing the demands of heavy academics with everyday adult responsibilities often proves overwhelming for nontraditional nursing students in a community college nursing program. Too often, nontraditional students elect to leave school a...
- Title
- FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
- Author
- McGee, Marquis
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
- Title
- Exploratory And Confirmatory Analyses Of A Hospital Employee Satisfaction Survey
- Author
- Redden, Kenneth
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- This study explored the factor structure of a 22-item survey developed to measure employee satisfaction in a healthcare setting. The purpose was to determine if a homegrown survey possessed factors known to measure employee satisfaction. First an ...
- Title
- ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor?
- Author
- Dooley-Kennedy, Torrieann
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...
- Title
- Evaluating the Role of Rain Garden Soils in Nutrient Processing of Stormwater Runoff in Charlotte, NC
- Author
- Starnes, Cody
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences
- Description
- As urbanization increases, Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used to reduce pollutants otherwise released to streams. Rain gardens are a type of BMPs that are vegetated depressions with highly permeable soil to treat urban runoff. These structu...
- Title
- Developing Temporal Machine Learning Approaches to Support Modeling, Explaining, and Sensemaking of Academic Success and Risk of Undergraduate Students
- Author
- Nur, Nasheen
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Artificial intelligence, Education
- Description
- The main goal of learning analytics and early detection systems is to extract knowledge from student data to understand students’ trends of activities towards success and risk and design intervention methods to improve learning performance and exp...
- Title
- Academic and Social Integration of the Non-Traditional College Student: Does Engagement Affect Retention?
- Author
- Cox, Barbara
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Adult education
- Description
- ABSTRACTFor years, educators from colleges and universities across the country have searched for ways to improve student engagement and increase retention. Changing demographics, decreasing enrollments and greater public demands have created uniqu...
- Title
- A Study of Leadership Factors, Retention Strategies, and Retention Rates in Associate Degree Nursing Programs
- Author
- Arthurs, Janet
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Nursing, Community colleges--Study and teaching, School management and organization
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to examine transformational leadership practices of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) directors, the relationship to student retention rates, and retention strategies used. The Leadership Practices Inventory-Self (LPI-Se...
- Title
- A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Contributing to Women Majoring in Computer Science
- Author
- Wong, Alexandria
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Computer science
- Description
- This study investigates factors that influence young women’s decision to major in computer science (CS). While there is a rapid increase of scientific advances being made in the United States and the importance of scientific fields for societal, e...