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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 ...
The apparent strategies of universities with exemplary retention rates: A synthesis of academic cocurricular programming.
(2003)
Many institutions of higher education offer cocurricular programming opportunities outside of the classroom to supplement learning and to impact retention. While many retention studies have focused on social programming ...
Differences in leadership behaviors among North American and Latin American continuing education practitioners.
(2006)
Leadership training is one of the fastest growing sectors of university continuing education in the US and Canada. The pervading belief that basic leadership and management skills will transfer successfully from culture ...
Career development patterns of Cheyenne/Arapaho women in rural Oklahoma.
(1998)
The study was designed and implemented to identify Cheyenne/Arapaho women's perceptions of career direction in their lives. Many factors were considered as the women were interviewed; family structure and history, influential ...
A qualitative inquiry into a child's perspective on parent(s) attending university.
(2004)
Adult learners return to and participate in post-secondary education, many of whom are parents. Student-parents question the impact of their participation in higher education on their children. To address this issue, an ...
Change from an instructor-centered to a learner-centered instructional strategy: A study of faculty at a community college.
(2001)
The variables found to be significant in influencing change from instructor-centered to learner-centered teaching were faculty development and the characteristics of students---specifically, on campus faculty development ...
Delivering continuing professional education at a distance: The correlation of field dependence/independence and learning using the World Wide Web.
(1999)
Field independent participant scores showed an advantage on performance measures. Field dependence/independence was not predictive of learner completion rates, frequency of reporting a sense of 'becoming lost', or navigational ...
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, ...
The Transfer of Training Process
(2014-05-09)
This study tested Marguerite Foxon’s 1993 proposal of a Transfer of Training Process. The transfer of supervisor/management training was evaluated for municipal workers in two southwestern metropolitan areas. The measurement ...