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Path to the professoriate for high-achieving, first-generation college students.
(2006)
The researcher conducted nine interviews with high achieving first-generation college students who were able to overcome difficulties in order to gain access to higher education, persist through the maze of obstacles that ...
Factors in successful GED recipients in higher education.
(2006)
An inductive phenomenological study was conducted using eight GED recipients who had attempted higher education at a four-year university with this researcher's own experiences included. Four members of the study were ...
Persistence among adult students enrolled in business- and ministry-related tracks of degree-completion programs.
(2006)
In this study, 22 former students of degree-completion programs offered by three Christian colleges were interviewed using a qualitative approach. This study addressed the questions of their motivations for participation, ...
Applications of selected cooperative learning techniques to group piano instruction.
(2006)
The educational concept of cooperative learning is not a new one. The instructional model has existed for centuries and has been thoroughly researched and developed as reflected in the professional literature. Yet this ...
An investigation of the program planning process for athletic training curriculum education programs.
(2006)
The study found that there is not one specific factor that will ultimately lead to the development of a successfully accredited athletic training education program. There are many explanations as to the role of program ...
Integration and marginality: Narratives of commuter students.
(2006)
As an attempt to understand the experience of the commuter, a qualitative design was selected, with a phenomenological approach. Six commuter students, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four, were selected to participate ...
An exploration into success factors of African American males who obtained terminal degrees from majority White institutions.
(2006)
The study consisted of individual unstructured interviews with five African American males that completed a Ph.D. at an MWI. The interviews explored how these individuals made sense of their achievement of a terminal degree.
Why not OU? Matriculation decisions of first-time direct-from-high-school students admitted to the University of Oklahoma.
(2006)
In addition, the primary theme of this dissertation---enrollment choice--- involves issues related to decision-making by both the student and the institution. Decision-making is a fundamental component of the leadership ...
The few who succeed: Women administrators in higher education.
(2006)
Vignettes of the interview participants provide detailed description of each individual participant; survey data provide generalized descriptions. The various themes that emerged from the interviews and survey data were ...
Vestiges of glory: Iraq's universities and female students in the midst of tyranny, sanctions and war.
(2006)
This historical dissertation examines the intersectionality of sanctions, war and autocratic rule as it manifested itself on Iraqi university campuses and, more specifically, the impact on female students. While much has ...