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  • The Experiences of Students Who Complete in a Successful Distance Learning Course

    Creator:
    Smith, Steve
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    Background: Prior research has shown that distance learning courses have higher failure rates at community colleges then equivalent face-to-face to courses. There are a few programs and courses, however, that consistently achieve completion rates as high as or higher than their equivalent face-to-face courses. The research to date has not...
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    ) category 2 strong instructor presence; (c) category 3 strong institutional support Data Collection and

  • Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

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    Williams, MaryJean Harris
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    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...
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    I understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State

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

    Creator:
    Ring, Jeffery R.
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    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...
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    characteristics with SLR and with eventual graduation. Data collection involved gathering historic transcript

  • The Impact of Financial Education on Community College Student-Loan Debt

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    Garcia, Veronica R.
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    The student-loan market has surpassed 1.3 trillion dollars; rising student-loan cohort default rates are a growing concern among educational institutions. Many colleges are implementing financial-education programs for students to help increase their knowledge, aptitude, and skills so they may become informed consumers. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of this...
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    demographics variables, course completion and student-loan indebtedness. Data Collection and Analysis: The

  • Community Colleges Creating Academic Programming for Rural Areas

    Creator:
    Garcia-Chitwood, Jean
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    Community colleges serve various populations as part of their missions. Many community colleges serve the people who live in rural communities and are challenged with fewer financial resources. The term rural is not easily defined, and many variables need to be considered when creating academic programming for rural populations. There...
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    data collection and analysis. Data source triangulation involved comparison of the reports from

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

    Creator:
    Ewer, Gary
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    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...
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    collection, (b) member checking with participants, and (c) external audit with a peer researcher

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

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    Harrison, Faimous J. L.
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    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...
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    geographic region demonstrated that Midwest branch campuses outperformed all campuses in every region

  • Libraries and the community college baccalaureate : meeting the challenge

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    Coslor, Melinda McCormick
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    The community college baccalaureate movement has shown strong growth across the country as a strategy to meet workforce shortages. A variety of forces are driving the movement including (a) employer demand for higher credentials; (b) geographical access to education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in...
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    ensure that collection development and information literacy instruction meets the needs of students

  • The experiences of middle-level Chinese female adult immigrants working at west coast community and technical colleges

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    Zhou, Lin
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    Community and technical colleges in the United States are experiencing an expansion of racial and ethnic diversity in students, faculty, and administrators. From 1996 to 2006, the number of Asian female college students increased 55.3%, from 13,184 to 20,477. The number of Asian male students increased 48.9%, from 9,731 to...
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    my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries

  • A study of the Kingore Observation Inventory as a screening procedure for the identification of highly able second graders

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    Vaughn-Neely, Elizabeth I.
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    The purpose of this study was to determine if the inferences derived from the Kingore Observation Inventory as a screening device are sufficiently valid for the identification of potentially gifted youngsters. Differences in predicting the WISC-III Full Scale IQ scores and/or percentile ranks using the KOI were assessed. The value...
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    ability and collection of behavioral data, are met, programming will ensue. 11 Testing Young Children