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Community College Transitioning Experiences Of Dual Enrollment Students, Sandra Lucille Fuline
Community College Transitioning Experiences Of Dual Enrollment Students, Sandra Lucille Fuline
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Dual enrollment transitioning experiences of students are poorly understood, leaving higher education stakeholders without the proper information to smooth the transitioning process and keep students in college. This basic qualitative study using interviews explored how 10 dual enrollment students described their transitioning experiences from high school to community college by investigating their motivations, ability to acknowledge self-efficacy, and understanding of social interactions using Badura's self-efficacy model and Keller's motivational theory and the attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction model. Data were analyzed through an open coding method to categorize themes and patterns as well as discrepant information. Key findings indicated that …