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Ensuring Academic Success Of Student-Athletes: Research On The Relationship Of Academic Measures Of Success And Graduation Rates, Jessica Chrabaszcz, Leslie Cordie, Michael Wooten
Ensuring Academic Success Of Student-Athletes: Research On The Relationship Of Academic Measures Of Success And Graduation Rates, Jessica Chrabaszcz, Leslie Cordie, Michael Wooten
Journal of Global Education and Research
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has implemented metrics to track the academic success of student-athletes in higher education. This study was designed to evaluate the relationship between three metrics used by the NCAA as part of it monitoring and compliance program for academic achievement by student-athletics. Our study examined the relationships between Academic Progress Rate (APR), Graduation Success Rate (GSR), and Federal Graduation Rate (FGR). The data set consisted of 720 total APR, GSR, and FGR scores for the years 2003-2006 obtained from 14 Southeastern Conference (SEC) programs. A subset of six sports with samples sizes of 20 or …
Measures Of The Adjustment Of Mature-Age, Undergraduate Students To University, Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach, Kay Margetts
Measures Of The Adjustment Of Mature-Age, Undergraduate Students To University, Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach, Kay Margetts
Journal of Global Education and Research
Adjustment to the first year of university involves engaging with the university culture and developing a sense of belonging or attachment. Difficulty making the transition to university can result in students deferring or withdrawing from their courses. While mature-age students experience many of the challenges of all first-year students such as social dislocation, academic anxiety, and unrealistic expectations, they are more likely than school-leaver students to have family responsibilities and time constraints. The ability to manage competing demands on their time can affect their participation in campus-based activities and negatively impact their sense of belonging to the university. This paper …
Leading Like An Educator: How Mbti Profiles Vary From The Norm, Angela Farmer
Leading Like An Educator: How Mbti Profiles Vary From The Norm, Angela Farmer
Journal of Global Education and Research
This article examines the particular personality traits associated with effective, active and former educational leaders, using a sample set of Myers-Briggs personality types of educational leaders from the Southeastern and Midwestern areas of the United States who attended a conference on Educational Leadership in the fall of 2017 (N=19). It was anticipated that the characteristics of this unique set of individuals, who have elected to work for the benefit of children through the challenging aspects of administrative constraints and oversight, will emerge as having a unique personality density, separate from that of the normal population. It is further …