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Study abroad and global competence : exemplary community college programs which foster elements of achievement

Creator:: Arden-Ogle, Ellen A.
Abstract:: The research‘s purpose was to examine how exemplary community college study abroad programs assisted student participants in acquiring global competence. Three research questions were explored: 1.What issues need to be anticipated when planning a study abroad program for community college students in order to effectively incorporate opportunities for students to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Additional research materials were requested and received from the American Institute for Foreign Study

Studying abroad and vocabulary use in impromptu essays

Creator:: Mitchell, Kathleen
Abstract:: Spending time in a German speaking country may aid in vocabulary acquisition and production. This study hypothesized a concrete link between written language use and experiences abroad. Intermediate German students’ vocabulary uses in impromptu essays were evaluated by counting the number of total word, unique words, and content words. This...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . (1993). Predictors of foreign language gain during study abroad. Washington D.C.: Foreign Language

Study abroad and national identity

Creator:: Pelosi, Giustina M.
Abstract:: A recent and steady increase in student participation in study-abroad programs has caused international educators and student affairs professionals to reevaluate the current study-abroad paradigm and redesign and implement new curricula better suited to meet the changing needs of international education. Recent emphasis has been placed on understanding outcomes of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ; she states “that research on study-abroad must include efforts to move beyond the evaluation or

Student identity development abroad : Three students' stories

Creator:: Gutzler, Jill
Abstract:: This thesis explores the challenges and triumphs experienced by three students who spent the summer abroad on international internships. Through their individual stories and journals, they shared how they questioned their own values, their nationality, and the value of formal education. They also experienced changing relationships and new career aspirations...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: relation to the timing of this study. As the world questioned America's foreign policies, these interns 1E

ESL students as ethnographers : co-researching communicative practices in an academic discourse community

Creator:: Dantas-Whitney, Maria
Abstract:: No research to date has involved ESL students as researchers in investigations of community language practices. This study examined the research processes of 23 international college students in an advanced ESL course. The students worked on an original curriculum, the Language Research Project, through which they performed ethnographic and discourse...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: community language practices. This study examined the research processes of 23 international college

Perceptions of volunteering and community service : voices of post-secondary remedial completer

Creator:: Blakely, Randall G.
Abstract:: Although community colleges have emphasized service-learning programs for traditional students, by in large, non-traditional students from post-secondary remedial programs have not been involved. This lack of reaching post-secondary remedial programs may be of particular interest to college personnel who may not be aware of the need to include service activities...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The concept of disability in graduate programs that specialize in study abroad or international exchange

Creator:: Fanjoy, Ali
Abstract:: This thesis explores how and why the concept of disability is included in, or excluded from, the curricula of graduate programs that specialize in international exchange and/or study abroad. Five graduate programs in the United States participated in this study. Data was collected from program websites and through interviews with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Disability in Graduate Programs that Specialize in Study Abroad or International Exchange

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
Full Text:: -evolving, student-driven qualitative research study. Despite significant disadvantages, including

Factors associated with the implementation fidelity of a school-based social and character development program : findings from the Positive Action program, Hawai’i

Creator:: Beets, Michael W.
Abstract:: Implementation fidelity (dosage, adherence, quality of delivery, responsiveness, program differentiation) is the degree to which a program was carried out to its original intent. The following three studies examined the implementation fidelity of a school-based health promotion social and character development (SACD) program. The, Positive Action (PA) program was a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Study 1 examined teacher- and school-level factors that influenced fidelity of program

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Used for Pilot Study .......................... 131 B End-of-Term Writing Self-Evaluation Used

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Study abroad and global competence : exemplary community college programs which foster elements of achievement

Studying abroad and vocabulary use in impromptu essays

Study abroad and national identity

Student identity development abroad : Three students' stories

ESL students as ethnographers : co-researching communicative practices in an academic discourse community

Perceptions of volunteering and community service : voices of post-secondary remedial completer

The concept of disability in graduate programs that specialize in study abroad or international exchange

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

Factors associated with the implementation fidelity of a school-based social and character development program : findings from the Positive Action program, Hawai’i

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

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