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Measuring student satisfaction with the service processes of selected student educational support services at Everett Community College

Creator:: Kerlin, Christine
Abstract:: The era of "customer satisfaction" brings students to colleges who are increasingly identifying themselves as customers. Competition among a growing number of institutions and learning organizations is sharpening the desire of institutions to deliver high quality service in order to attract and retain students. Some examples of interactions where service...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

From risk to resiliency : academic persistence in Mexican-American high school English as a Second Language students

Creator:: Temes, Carla A.
Abstract:: Five student-researchers and the author engaged in a continually-evolving, student-driven qualitative research study. Despite significant disadvantages, including navigating a. foreign culture without speaking the language, these invulnerable learners succeeded. Ultimately of greatest interest to the six were an analysis of their collective knowledge and experiences, and their individual transformation over...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The history of the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Portland Community College

Creator:: Joy, Juanita M.
Abstract:: This study describes the historical development of the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Portland Community College by women faculty leaders in a male-dominated organization. In-depth interviews of eleven participants were transcribed and analyzed. The participants gave a very rich description of this nursing programthus describing its culture. Six themes were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The role of scientific thinking in environmental policy decisions

Creator:: Nelson, Jerry Kelvin
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to analyze the individual reasoning of 24 adults as they made decisions for two communities regarding municipal wastewater treatment. The two western Oregon communities were both responding to notices from governmental agencies of higher environmental standards for the purification of wastewater before it could...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A study of adult student learning strategies for a web based teacher licensure program

Creator:: Twomey, Sylvia Mary
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to understand how adult learners in an online teacher licensure program selected and used learning strategies, transformed existing strategies or developed new strategies. Also examined was whether the environment itself facilitated or impeded usage of transformed strategies, or development of new strategies. Participants in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Impacts of the Internet on academic culture in Aceh, Indonesia

Creator:: Daud, Darni M.
Abstract:: The adoption and increasing uses of the Internet in higher education in many parts of the world have resulted in fundamental changes in academic cultures. The transfer of information is essential to academic life, and the Internet offers faster and easier access to information and communication between people than ever...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Perceptions of an African American woman chief executive officer in a community college setting

Creator:: McKinnon, Maurice
Abstract:: Community colleges are in a strategic position to meet the growing demands for educating a population that is in a dynamic state of change, a population that is becoming more diverse with each passing year. A diverse population and other critical issues have created a new challenge for community colleges....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The impact of youth gang awareness training on school personnel

Creator:: Novotney, Dave C.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of youth gang awareness training on school personnel. Middle and high school level teachers, counselors, and school administrators in a rural Oregon school district were the focus of this study. Six specially designed modules were created by the researcher and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Returner : a First Nations autobiographical study : understanding the causes of First Nations language decline and extinction from the perspective of a First Nations language worker

Creator:: Kelly, John Medicine Horse
Abstract:: This study documents thick-description single-source data from the life and experiences of a Native American / Native Canadian language worker. The worker, raised and educated in the United States, was separated from his ancestral village until his thirties. The worker, with a Masters degree in education from Oregon State University,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A descriptive study of the presidential search process at a newly created community college and its reflection of the emerging organizational culture

Creator:: Huston, Gina G.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to describe the presidential search process at a newly created community college and to learn how that process reflected the emerging organizational culture. A single research question guided the inquiry: How did the presidential search process at a newly created community college reflect the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Characterization of high school students' preference for teacher race

Creator:: Hooper, C. Michelle
Abstract:: Racial integration of the Louisiana public school system had a devastating effect on its number of Black teachers. The state has yet to recover from this reduction, as fewer Black college students pursue education degrees. This study reports on whether or not the lack of Black educators has influenced high...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Coming to community college via welfare reform : an exploration of expectations and experience of women in Washington's WorkFirst program

Creator:: Kostick, Susan
Abstract:: This qualitative study explores the experiences of women who are welfare recipients attending a community college under the auspices of a new program, Washington State's WorkFirst/Work Study program. The study, conducted over two academic quarters, includes in-depth interviews with WorkFirst/Work Study students, observations in a weekly seminar, and interviews with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Perceptions of international students in a community college-based coordinated studies program

Creator:: Insley, Andrea E.
Abstract:: This study presented an in-depth exploration of international student perceptions of a coordinated studies program (CSP) at Seattle Central Community College. In conducting this research project, a phenomenological research methodology was used. Qualitative data were collected through participant observations, focus group, document review and individual in-depth interviews with nine students....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Outcomes-based curriculum reform in a community college : a discipline based inquiry

Creator:: Meier, Rebecca Anne
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine how faculty curriculum committees from different disciplines moved through a major curriculum change process from content-focused curriculum to outcomes-based curriculum. Data was gathered through direct observations, committee member interviews, a questionnaire, and the Gregorc Style Delineator from four curriculum committees representing different...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Community college leaders : building community connections

Creator:: York, Penny
Abstract:: The study established how community college leaders establish connections with other community leaders. Connections that form broad and inclusive networks can be used to develop positive social capital in communities. Results showed that new community college leaders follow a pattern of community engagement including the identification of other leaders, making...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The re-discovery of soul and reclamation of spirit anew : the influence of spirituality on the persistence of Mexican American Chicana (o) community college transfer students at a small liberal arts university

Creator:: Rasca-Hidalgo, Leo
Abstract:: Low completion rates have created serious "leakage points" (Astin, 1988) and "severe hemorrhaging" (Lango, 1996) in higher education to a large number of Hispanics. Traditional research on college persistence, which has blamed the students' culture for low performance, is inaccurate. Little research has specifically investigated academic persistence from a cultural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Social and learning strategies male community college students use to maximize learning from cooperative work experiences

Creator:: Risser, Edward M.
Abstract:: Employers often lament that many American workers are not qualified for present and future jobs due to changing skills requirements and deficiencies of schools. In 1991, the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report recommended educators use work sites to help students achieve foundation skills and workplace...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Sustaining systems of relationships : the essence of the physical learning environment that supports and enhances collaborative, project-based learning at the community college level

Creator:: Wolff, Susan J.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to: (a) determine the design features of the physical learning environment that support and enhance collaborative, project-based learning at the community college level; and (b) to gain an understanding of the rationale for the selection of the features. The characteristics of the physical environment...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Toward a student-constructed model of student services for electronic distance education

Creator:: Blount, Joanna F.
Abstract:: The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and communicate a student-constructed model of student services for electronic distance education (EDE). This study seeks to answer the following questions: Do students enrolled in EDE perceive a need for student services? If not, why not? Which services do students want/need?...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Full-time faculty recruitment and selection strategies practiced by learning-centered community colleges

Creator:: Fowler-Hill, Sandra A.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Measuring student satisfaction with the service processes of selected student educational support services at Everett Community College

From risk to resiliency : academic persistence in Mexican-American high school English as a Second Language students

The history of the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Portland Community College

The role of scientific thinking in environmental policy decisions

A study of adult student learning strategies for a web based teacher licensure program

Impacts of the Internet on academic culture in Aceh, Indonesia

Perceptions of an African American woman chief executive officer in a community college setting

The impact of youth gang awareness training on school personnel

The Returner : a First Nations autobiographical study : understanding the causes of First Nations language decline and extinction from the perspective of a First Nations language worker

A descriptive study of the presidential search process at a newly created community college and its reflection of the emerging organizational culture

Characterization of high school students' preference for teacher race

Coming to community college via welfare reform : an exploration of expectations and experience of women in Washington's WorkFirst program

Perceptions of international students in a community college-based coordinated studies program

Outcomes-based curriculum reform in a community college : a discipline based inquiry

Community college leaders : building community connections

The re-discovery of soul and reclamation of spirit anew : the influence of spirituality on the persistence of Mexican American Chicana (o) community college transfer students at a small liberal arts university

Social and learning strategies male community college students use to maximize learning from cooperative work experiences

Sustaining systems of relationships : the essence of the physical learning environment that supports and enhances collaborative, project-based learning at the community college level

Toward a student-constructed model of student services for electronic distance education

Full-time faculty recruitment and selection strategies practiced by learning-centered community colleges

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