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Student Perceptions Of On-Campus Employment: Opportunities For High-Impact Practice, Patricia Rudalf
Student Perceptions Of On-Campus Employment: Opportunities For High-Impact Practice, Patricia Rudalf
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
As the public increasingly seeks evidence of the impact of the higher education experience on graduating students, high-impact practices (HIPs) provide colleges and universities with focused programs to direct appropriate use of resources and contribute to student persistence; however, many of these experiences remain inaccessible to various student populations. As such, universities must consider how to scale access to these practices for greater student participation. One such practice is student employment. The purpose of this study was to understand undergraduate, on-campus student employees’ perceptions of their employment experience, specifically the educational elements characteristic of HIPs therein, and the connection of …
Great Expectations: An Evaluation Of A Program For Foster Youth In Higher Education, Jessica Grant Divenuti Whitten
Great Expectations: An Evaluation Of A Program For Foster Youth In Higher Education, Jessica Grant Divenuti Whitten
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Great Expectations is a Virginia Community College System program for youth who were infoster care after the age of 13. Foster youth enter college with multiple disadvantages, including being less academically prepared compared to their peers and often lacking social support for their education. A program evaluation was conducted at a specific community college, Virginia Community College (pseudonym), to determine if the program was being implemented with fidelity, to compare the participants’ grade point averages and retention rates with other under-resourced students, and to discover the staff’s views on the successes of the program and their perspectives on needed improvements …
A Program Evaluation Of I-Ready Implementation In A North Carolina Middle School, Juliana Irene Owen Thompson
A Program Evaluation Of I-Ready Implementation In A North Carolina Middle School, Juliana Irene Owen Thompson
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Aurelius School District used Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready program, which was philosophically aligned to the science of reading and included i-Ready Diagnostic, i-Ready Instruction, and Teacher Toolbox, to improve Cole Middle School students’ reading achievement. Because of the high monetary cost of i-Ready, the school district was considering changing or ending this program. This pragmatic, mixed methods design, CIPP (Stufflebeam, 2003) program evaluation analyzed the fidelity of implementation of the i-Ready program through descriptive statistics (frequencies); assessed the effectiveness of the i-Ready program in increasing student achievement (on the Diagnostic, NC Check-Ins, and NC EOG) through descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, …