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A comparative study of extended orientation courses in two- and four-year colleges

Creator:: Devore, Judy
Abstract:: Extended orientation courses have been shown to be a valuable means of increasing student retention. However, little is known about the extent of their use, their form, their organization or their content. The purpose of this study was to determine what is being done in today's two-year college extended orientation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Extended orientation courses have been shown to be a valuable means of increasing student retention

A study of the effects of an extended transfer student orientation course on factors of student success

Creator:: Corley, Sherie P.
Abstract:: Transfer students often experience difficulties in adjusting to a new institutional environment, and these difficulties may limit their academic potential. Success predictors identified in research may not be part of their experiences. Can an institution create a formal process which can ameliorate deficiencies within success factors for transfer students? This...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A study of the effects of an extended transfer student orientation course on transfer student academic achievement

Creator:: Thomas, William Howard
Abstract:: In the process of adjusting to a new institutional environment, transfer students will often experience difficulties and these difficulties may limit their academic potential. Can an institution create a formal process which can help the transfer student adjust to the institutional environment? This study is an examination of a program--an...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: College are examples of colleges which have determined student needs and created orientation programs

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:: . Questions focus on the themes of: (a) focusing on student learning, (b) capitalizing on the academic

A comparative study of selected characteristics of junior and senior male university students residing in fraternities and residence halls at Oregon State University

Creator:: Kuder, James Michael
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to determine if significant differences existed in college performance and in selected areas of attitude and opinion between male upperclassmen residing in fraternities and non-fraternity male upperclassmen living in residence halls. Two samples consisting of (a) 86 upperclassmen from the residence halls and (b)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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The occurrence of social support among students living in residence halls

Creator:: Grindeman, Dann
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of social support within different living groups. It also determined if there were a combination of variables that contribute to social support. The independent variables included interpersonal orientation, sense of identity, adjustment to college, grade point average, gender of subject,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Philosophy in College Student Services Administration presented on May 25, 1984 Title: The Occurrence of

A study of student characteristics, attitudes, and attrition from secretarial science programs in seven selected two-year post-secondary educational institutions in Alberta

Creator:: Fisher, Harold Melvin
Abstract:: Mounting inflationary economic pressures and the obvious spiralling costs of education, at all levels, has drastically augmented public, administrative, and government concern regarding the effectiveness of many educational training programs. Secretarial Science, which is designed to provide occupational-level training represents such a program. Therefore, this study was conducted in order...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: student Persister or continuer Post-secondary institution, community/junior college, technical

A Likert scaling of student value statements, field independence-field dependence, and experimentally induced change

Creator:: Paeth, Charles August
Abstract:: In recent years, changes in values have occurred in major elements of the population, most notably among the late adolescents and the college students. That this holds portent for the future was referred to by Revel in WITHOUT MARX OR JESUS when he said, "The American revolution is without doubt...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Relationships between work values and job satisfaction amoung college student personnel workers

Creator:: Maples, Mary F.
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to examine the relationships which exist between the work values and job satisfaction characteristics of college student personnel workers in the states of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Work values are viewed as characteristics desired on an ideal job and job satisfaction characteristics are those factors...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Regulation of student conduct, b. Student records, c. Orientation to college of new students, d. Housing on

Self concept : a comparison of four groups of university students

Creator:: Millikin, Norman Leo
Abstract:: The major purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant differences in the self-concepts of vocational education teacher-trainees, non-vocational education teacher trainees and non-education students at Montana State University. Two hundred students were surveyed to determine if there were any differences in self-concepts based on either major...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: have on the development of another. The critical relationship between student and teacher is subject

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A comparative study of extended orientation courses in two- and four-year colleges

A study of the effects of an extended transfer student orientation course on factors of student success

A study of the effects of an extended transfer student orientation course on transfer student academic achievement

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

A comparative study of selected characteristics of junior and senior male university students residing in fraternities and residence halls at Oregon State University

The occurrence of social support among students living in residence halls

A study of student characteristics, attitudes, and attrition from secretarial science programs in seven selected two-year post-secondary educational institutions in Alberta

A Likert scaling of student value statements, field independence-field dependence, and experimentally induced change

Relationships between work values and job satisfaction amoung college student personnel workers

Self concept : a comparison of four groups of university students

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