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Undergraduate Research as a Tool to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Success in STEM: Exploring Potential Barriers and Solutions to Access for Students from Historically Underrepresented Groups

Creator:: Pierszalowski, Sophie P.
Abstract:: In response to concern over a lack of diversity in STEM postsecondary programs, institutions of higher education across the nation have promoted opportunities for undergraduate research. Such opportunities have been shown to enrich student experiences and success, especially for students from historically underrepresented groups. While these benefits have been fairly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: citizens, and not merely for the benefit of privileged groups” (Intemann, 2009, p. 250). In response to

The effect of youth participatory evaluation and youth community action training on positive youth development

Creator:: White, David J. (David Joseph)
Abstract:: The bi-directional relationships within the personal and contextual environments of adolescents are critical to the development of adolescents and their transition into adulthood. Opportunities for youth to participate in and provide leadership in meaningful programs, gain life skills, and interact with adults in sustained relationships are key features leading to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: differences (p > .05) in mean scores between the treatment and comparison groups relative to the six Cs

Voices to be heard : narrative research of undocumented Latino students in Oregon community colleges

Creator:: Ivelisse, Brenda
Abstract:: Community colleges have become a practical educational option for undocumented students seeking an associate degree; thus reflecting the community college's very mission and purpose by providing access and affordability for these students. Specifically, undocumented Latino students are known to select community colleges due to their low tuition cost, proximity to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of high achievers who persevere and serve as a model for success” (Contreras, 2009, p. 610). The

A National Five-Year Exploratory and Descriptive Analysis of Two-Year Public College Graduation Rates at Branch Compared to Non-Branch Campuses

Creator:: Harrison, Faimous J. L.
Abstract:: Branch campuses play an important part in postsecondary degree attainment by providing place-bound students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in different geographical regions access to education that is convenient. Their heterogeneousness structures, including enrollment size, communities, and populations served, are not accurately reflected in the majority of the research. Currently, there...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: patterns of the relationship between the categorical data in a meaningful way. The P-values were set at

Exploring How Alternatively Certified Agriculture Teachers Acquire Practices and Participate in a Community of Practice: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Creator:: Claflin, Kellie
Abstract:: The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience of alternatively certified agriculture teachers, acquire the practices of agriculture teachers, and participate in the agriculture teacher community of practice. The study was grounded in an interpretivist approach, which provided an alterantive perspective to the positistic-like research...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: enter the classroom,” (p. 7). When the NCEI first began reporting data on alternative certification

Blended Teaching in School-based Agriculture Education: An Exploration of Teacher Beliefs and Practices

Creator:: Milliken, D. Brett
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of school-based agriculture education (SBAE) teachers who self-identified as blended pedagogues. This study specifically focused on SBAE teachers' beliefs and how those beliefs influence their blended teaching classroom practice. Teacher beliefs are personal, subjective, and temporally and contextually stable....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ” (Short et al., 2021, p. 6). During prolonged emergency closures of schools, many K-12 teachers and

Colombia's national parks : an analysis of management problems and perceived values

Creator:: Meganck, Richard Albert
Abstract:: This analysis of Colombia's System of National Park Reservations accomplishes four objectives: 1) The historical development of national parks in Colombia was described; 2) The status, as of August, 1974, of the areas administered by the Colombian Renewable Natural Resources Development Institute (INDERENA) was summarized; 3) An analysis of major...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: given freely. Mr. Amilcar A. Lopez, direc- )f Colombia's national parks, and Mr. Jorge I. Hernandez

Productivity analysis of adult basic education programs : an analytic model

Creator:: West, Ellen Louise
Abstract:: The central purpose of this study was to develop a model for the examination of productivity in Adult Basic Education. To that end, an instrument developed for use in the field of business was adapted for use with an educational audience. It examined the relationship of adult education staff decision...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the G.E.D. certificate as measures of effective- ness (Smith, Lopez, and Mason, 1976). Thomas (1971

The role of resiliency in the educational attainment of certified alcohol and drug counselors

Creator:: Edwards, Darcy
Abstract:: This is a qualitative research project that seeks to understand the meanings that Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors (CADC's) have ascribed to their life experiences in relation to their choices about higher education. The participants are four Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors in Oregon who have less than bachelor degrees....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Second Interview..................................... 146 CHAPTER 7: JENNIFER LOPEZ

(re)Presenting in a global village : students of color and the study abroad international experience

Creator:: Davis-White Eyes, Allison
Abstract:: Post-secondary education institutions across the United States are increasingly allocating resources to promote international education exchange programs as a pedagogical praxis to develop students into global citizens. Underlying such notions of global citizenship is the assumption that students will also develop a stronger post-national or cosmopolitan identity as a result...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program, 2005, p. 16). Ethnic diversity within international

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Undergraduate Research as a Tool to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Success in STEM: Exploring Potential Barriers and Solutions to Access for Students from Historically Underrepresented Groups

The effect of youth participatory evaluation and youth community action training on positive youth development

Voices to be heard : narrative research of undocumented Latino students in Oregon community colleges

A National Five-Year Exploratory and Descriptive Analysis of Two-Year Public College Graduation Rates at Branch Compared to Non-Branch Campuses

Exploring How Alternatively Certified Agriculture Teachers Acquire Practices and Participate in a Community of Practice: A Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Blended Teaching in School-based Agriculture Education: An Exploration of Teacher Beliefs and Practices

Colombia's national parks : an analysis of management problems and perceived values

Productivity analysis of adult basic education programs : an analytic model

The role of resiliency in the educational attainment of certified alcohol and drug counselors

(re)Presenting in a global village : students of color and the study abroad international experience

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