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Veteran Student Success : An Evaluation of Veteran Students' Perceptions of a Cohort Learning Model

Creator:: Campbell, Edward J.
Abstract:: In 2010 the American taxpayers spent $697 million educating veterans under the provisions of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly referred to as the GI Bill). Most veterans begin their college education at a community college. However, the number of veterans succeeding in community colleges is exceedingly low. Based...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: transferrable to the academic environment via the cohort model and that this cohort approach helped them

Experiences of transition to the American community college : a thematic literature review of international student adjustment and exploratory grounded theory study of South Korean students' successful transition

Creator:: Nordell Fort, Katherine
Abstract:: The purpose of this dissertation is twofold; to review existing literature regarding the process of international student transition to the United States and to specifically increase the understanding of the experiences of a defined international student population through an original grounded theory study. Specifically, the study describes experiences of South...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , academic stressors, and reactions to stressors of international students in the United States

Bridging differences : Saudi Arabian students reflect on their educational experiences and share success strategies

Creator:: Shaw, Donna L. (Donna Laible)
Abstract:: This study examines the U.S. educational experiences of Saudi Arabian students. Using qualitative case study and photo-elicitation research methods, this study conducted multiple interviews with 25 Saudi students and explored their perceptions of their American learning environment, how it differed from Saudi Arabia, and the strategies they developed to successfully...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: identify strategies that contribute to successful academic work and the achievement of academic goals

Closing the Gap : Using Theory to Analyze the African American Division 1 Football Player Graduation Gap

Creator:: Smith, Dorian
Abstract:: African American male students are a small portion of the student body at NCAA Division 1-A schools, but they make up a large portion of population of college football players. African American male college students are also one of the most at-risk student populations on campus in regards to retention....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: an intrinsic motivation for learning, and high academic achievement are labeled as "acting White

Early family risk and children's academic achievement

Creator:: Sektnan, Michaella A.
Abstract:: Children who have multiple family risk factors are at increased risk for poor developmental outcomes, including poor academic achievement. The present study focused on charting the pathways through which early family risk – as indexed by ethnic minority status, low maternal education, low family income, and chronic maternal depressive symptoms...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Academic Achievement. Abstract approved: Megan M. McClelland Children who

Academic achievement trajectories of adolescents from Mexican and East Asian immigrant families

Creator:: Jeong, Yu Jin
Abstract:: Academic achievement of adolescent children is directly associated with their success in adulthood. Little is known, however, regarding how adolescents in immigrant families academically grow over time and what factors influence the trajectories. Drawing on the National Educational Longitudinal Survey 1988 (NELS: 88), this study aimed to: 1) identify the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: presented on July 16, 2009. Title: Academic Achievement Trajectories of Adolescents from Mexican and East

The college accomplishments of Phi Kappa Phi freshman award winners

Creator:: Brauns, Jeannette Alice
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: received the Phi Kappa Phi Freshman Award at Oregon State College and the scholastic and

The prediction of scholastic success at Oregon State Agricultural College

Creator:: Jones, George Alfred Arnold
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (20) reported that "not enough difference exists between the achievement of the academic- pattern

Academic libraries at the center of instructional change : Faculty and librarian experience of library leadership in the transformation of teaching and learning

Creator:: Gilchrist, Debra L.
Abstract:: This phenomenological inquiry explored the experiences of library leaders and discipline faculty members engaging in a collaborative instructional change initiative focused on a process-based learning pedagogy and led by an academic library. The investigation’s purpose was providing insight and understanding concerning the: (a) library’s role in instructional leadership; (b) experience...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: presented on April 24, 2007. Title: Academic Libraries at the Center of Instructional Change: Faculty

Survey of collection analysis practices in public and academic libraries in the United States, and the effect of automation thereon

Creator:: Cochrane, Linda Louise Loomis
Abstract:: This study investigated the practices public and academic library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing use of collections. The study also investigated administrators' satisfaction with their collection use analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation to have upon collection use analysis practices. A survey developed for this study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Academic Libraries in the United States, and the Effect of Automation Thereon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Veteran Student Success : An Evaluation of Veteran Students' Perceptions of a Cohort Learning Model

Experiences of transition to the American community college : a thematic literature review of international student adjustment and exploratory grounded theory study of South Korean students' successful transition

Bridging differences : Saudi Arabian students reflect on their educational experiences and share success strategies

Closing the Gap : Using Theory to Analyze the African American Division 1 Football Player Graduation Gap

Early family risk and children's academic achievement

Academic achievement trajectories of adolescents from Mexican and East Asian immigrant families

The college accomplishments of Phi Kappa Phi freshman award winners

The prediction of scholastic success at Oregon State Agricultural College

Academic libraries at the center of instructional change : Faculty and librarian experience of library leadership in the transformation of teaching and learning

Survey of collection analysis practices in public and academic libraries in the United States, and the effect of automation thereon

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