Browsing by Subject "community college"
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Baby Boomers and community college: A study of motivations
(2009-12)Scope and Method of Study: This descriptive case study was designed to describe the critical issues surrounding Baby Boomers and their motivations to attend community college, in addition to their perceptions of learning ... -
Community college faculty members' perspectives regarding formal faculty-student mentoring
(2009-12)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore community college faculty members' perceptions of tactics they perceive to foster productive mentoring process and mitigate negative mentoring ... -
Community college persistence, social networks, and new student orientation programs
(2004-12)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this case study was to examine students' social networks in relationship to their academic persistence. Students who attended the orientation program as well as students who have ... -
Cultural Capital and Achievement Goals in Hispanic College Students at Two- And Four-Year Educational Institutions
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-05-01)The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were differences in the achievement goals and cultural capital between Hispanic students attending a two- or a four-year educational institution. A sample of 58 ... -
Dual enrollment experiment: Exploration for distributed leadership
(2020-12)Leadership could be identified as a construct with unlimited definitions that are as idiosyncratic as the individuals seeking to frame its essence. While the contemporary study of scientific leadership dates back to the ... -
Evaluating the implementation of mathematics pathways
(2019-12)Developmental education has long served as a barrier between students and degree attainment (Bailey, Jeong, & Cho, 2010; Okimoto & Heck, 2015). Specifically, developmental mathematics (DM) sequences have had notoriously ... -
Identifying Students Who Need Support: A Logistic Regression Study of Community College Student Success Prediction
(2019-07)Ongoing questions exist about whether placement measures used by community colleges accurately predict students' potential for success in addition to assessing their academic achievement levels in reading, writing, and ... -
Life Stories of Older Community College Women
(2018-05)The purpose of this narrative research was to explore the life stories of older women attending community college, uncovering elements of their identities and highlighting the role education was playing in the creation of ... -
LITERATURE AND RACIAL SOCIAL SENSITIVITY AT A RURAL TWO-YEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(2020-05-08)According to The Pew Research Center (Jurkowitz et al., 2020), the US is becoming more divided based on political affiliation, religion, race, lifestyle preferences and economic status. If students are not exposed to ... -
Low income, first generation community college students: Reflections on their success and their motivations
(2012-05)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the factors that supported low-income first-generation (LIFG) transfer graduates of four-year institutions in their persistence at the community ... -
Retention and degree completion: A quantitative assessment of the impacts of study abroad on community college students
(2023-05)This study analyzed the impacts of participation in short-term study abroad programs at Oklahoma community colleges through a quantitative research design. Student retention and degree completion are concerns for all types ... -
Understanding the College Completion Agenda on a Community College Campus: The Lived Experience of Faculty and Administrators
(2019-06)Former President Obama and business leaders placed community colleges at the center of a plan to avoid a shortage of skilled workers, relying heavily on the 2-year institutions to educate prospective employees and, thereby, ...