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Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

Creator:: Williams, MaryJean Harris
Abstract:: Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Shelley Dubkin-Lee, Eric Einspruch, Joe Johnson, Susan Shaw, Sam Stern, and more than anyone, thank you

Case Study : Description of a Corporate University's Operational Factors

Creator:: Ewer, Gary
Abstract:: Corporate universities (CUs) have been in existence in the United States since the early 1900s. They are increasingly providing educational and developmental opportunities for workers; however, there is little empirical research on these types of organizations. This study examined a specific electrical distributor's CU using a theoretical framework as a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: training, and (v) the integrated systems model. This study contributed to the limited body of

Faculty perceptions of organizational climate for innovation at community colleges

Creator:: Batazhan, Tatyana
Abstract:: Higher education is faced with ever-increasing challenges, which require fundamental changes in order to ensure its relevance in the future. Business leaders and academic scholars urge organizations to continuously reshape and renew through learning and innovation to assure viability and sustainability. Organizational climate serves as a foundation that can promote...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

An empirical comparison of the absorptive capacity and responsiveness of Russian and American growth-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

Creator:: Fuller, Robert L.
Abstract:: This study examines the relationship between organizational absorptive capacity and organizational responsiveness to changes in their environment exhibited by growth-oriented SMEs in Russia. Adopting the theoretical framework and methodology used by Liao, Welsch and Stoica in their 2003 study of the absorptive capacity and organizational responsiveness of U.S. growth-oriented SMEs,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: appropriate keywords. Specific databases used include 21 ERIC and the Oregon State University

Experimental analysis of task prioritization training for a group of university flight technology students

Creator:: Hoover, Amy L.
Abstract:: Task prioritization performance was evaluated for pilots who participated in a concurrent task management (CTM) training course and pilots who did not. CTM is the process by which pilots selectively attend to high priority tasks and shed non-priority tasks. Twenty seven pilots enrolled in a university flight technology program were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Division, The Australian Aviation Psychology Association, Academic Search Elite, ERIC, Dissertation

Number of Colleges Placed on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as an Indicator of First Year Persistence at Public Community Colleges

Creator:: Cox, Robert A.
Abstract:: Retention literature has shown that student retention is impacted when economic factors are considered when selecting a college. Students who are low income typically choose colleges that are closer to home and rely on financial aid to pay for college. Further, financial aid is generally a positive indicator of retention...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: …………………………………………………………………… 30 4. Chapter IV: Results…………………………………………………………………….. 40 5. Chapter V: Discussion

Exploring definitions of student success throughout community colleges in the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Creator:: McBeth, Scott S.
Abstract:: The topic of student success is beginning to grow in popularity throughout the United States. Student success has a wide variety of definitions ranging from a direct definition of graduation to an indirect definition of a student setting a goal of finishing a class successfully. Now there are stakeholders such...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Conclusion.....................................................................80 Chapter V: Discussion

Successful Learning Rate as an Indicator of Student Success Rates : A Correlational Study

Creator:: Ring, Jeffery R.
Abstract:: At the intersection of higher education and politics, there is demand for an easily understood measure of student success. Graduation rate is the current measure of choice, but the definition of graduation rate excludes many categories of students and types of success particularly applicable to community colleges. The purpose of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ). Tinto, V. (1988). Stages of student departure: Reflections on the longitudinal character of student

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:: online databases (in order of importance to the research topic): ERIC, Library Literature, Dissertation

A two-year college and four-year university degree partnership program that facilitates baccalaureate attainment

Creator:: Hindman, Lynne L.
Abstract:: Baccalaureate attainment represents an important goal among educators and policymakers. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education has stated that affordability and transfer are critical to increasing baccalaureate attainment, and that community colleges have a critical role in this transfer process. On the other hand, some researchers disagree...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: .....................................................................................................................95 Chapter V: Discussion

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Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

Case Study : Description of a Corporate University's Operational Factors

Faculty perceptions of organizational climate for innovation at community colleges

An empirical comparison of the absorptive capacity and responsiveness of Russian and American growth-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

Experimental analysis of task prioritization training for a group of university flight technology students

Number of Colleges Placed on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid as an Indicator of First Year Persistence at Public Community Colleges

Exploring definitions of student success throughout community colleges in the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Successful Learning Rate as an Indicator of Student Success Rates : A Correlational Study

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

A two-year college and four-year university degree partnership program that facilitates baccalaureate attainment

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