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Navigating For The Adult Student: Ways To Help Adult Students Transfer Successfully From Community Colleges To Universities, Bethany M. Craig
Navigating For The Adult Student: Ways To Help Adult Students Transfer Successfully From Community Colleges To Universities, Bethany M. Craig
Theses and Dissertations
Despite the research that exists about transfer students, there is limited literature on the services that colleges and universities provide to adult students who transfer from community college to university. The number of adult students who participate in postsecondary education continues to grow. The purpose for this mixed method exploratory study was to gather data through both telephone conversations and a survey of transfer coordinators at Illinois institutions of higher education, including community colleges, public four-year institutions, and private, nonprofit four-year institutions. The study sought to understand what transfer coordinators perceive their colleges and universities are doing to help adult …
Learning Through Reading: A Handbook Of Literature-Based Lessons For Esl, Lota I. Rygiel
Learning Through Reading: A Handbook Of Literature-Based Lessons For Esl, Lota I. Rygiel
Master's Projects and Capstones
Learning through Reading: A Handbook of Literature-based Lessons for ESL A Field Project written by Lota Rygiel in the spring of 2016. This project is a handbook of lessons for adult ESL students at intermediate or advanced proficiency levels of English as a Second Language. The handbook offers the use of authentic materials in the form of short stories and poems in English. The authentic materials serve as a challenge to students (Krashen's "i + 1" level): with careful guidance of the instructor they will be interesting and meaningful to students. The use of various literary genres corresponds to the …
Adult Students' Perceptions Of Transfer Services At An Historically Black University, Kimberly Anne Crews
Adult Students' Perceptions Of Transfer Services At An Historically Black University, Kimberly Anne Crews
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Data from the National Center for Education Statistics have indicated a steady growth of students attending 3 or more institutions while pursuing a baccalaureate degree. When students transfer institutions, they may have specific needs for their new institution. Informed by the transfer receptive culture framework, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of students who had attended 3 or more postsecondary institutions on the services they received, before and after their transfer. Purposeful sampling yielded 9 adult students with multiple-institution attendance histories. Data were collected through semistructured instant messaging interviews. A series of messages included …
Persistence Factors For Adult Women Learners At A Northeast Community College, Andrea Hemmerich
Persistence Factors For Adult Women Learners At A Northeast Community College, Andrea Hemmerich
Higher Education Student Work
Community colleges have been the long-standing institution type for students seeking a post-secondary education because of their relatively low cost and open access philosophies. Particularly, adult or non-traditional women learners have chosen the community college route over the past few decades (Cohen & Brawer, 2008). Motivations to enroll, persist and graduate, vary, depending on factors internal and external to the college and are often dissimilar to their traditional aged counterparts. Given this difference and increasing enrollment numbers, understanding the lived experiences of adult women learners is critical for individual institutions and the larger higher education community. This exploratory study sought …
Adult Learners Of English Interacting With Native Speaker Teachers And Non-Native Speaker Teachers : Exploring Differences In Students' Language Use, Melody Hallenbeck Nadeau
Adult Learners Of English Interacting With Native Speaker Teachers And Non-Native Speaker Teachers : Exploring Differences In Students' Language Use, Melody Hallenbeck Nadeau
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This mixed-methods study examined the lived experience of adult English Language Learners (ELLs) in classrooms led by native speaking teachers, compared with their experience in classrooms led by non-native teachers. The socio-cognitive approach to language and emergent common ground framed the development of the English classroom as a Community of Practice, in which students produced varying levels of complex, formulaic, metaphorically dense speech.
Coping Strategies Of Part-Time Mba Students: The Role Of Boundary Management, Marion M. Dunagan
Coping Strategies Of Part-Time Mba Students: The Role Of Boundary Management, Marion M. Dunagan
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Using the framework of boundary theory as applied to the work-life-school construct, the study focused on part-time MBA students who worked full-time, their tendency to segment or integrate their numerous roles, and the coping tactics they utilized in redistributing their efforts as they added graduate school to these roles. The research population consisted of a convenience sample of all first and second year Managerial MBA students enrolled at the University of Arkansas. A quasi-experimental research design was used to analyze the sample.
The results of the research indicated that the part-time graduate student who was employed full time faced specific …
Using Scenarios To Train Peer Mentors Online, Jenny Worsley, Pauline Taylor
Using Scenarios To Train Peer Mentors Online, Jenny Worsley, Pauline Taylor
Associate Professor Pauline Taylor-Guy
Adult Esl Student Perceptions On Computer Assisted Language Learning, Jillian Burrus
Adult Esl Student Perceptions On Computer Assisted Language Learning, Jillian Burrus
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The purpose of this research study was to explore my adult English as a second language (ESL) student's experiences with technology as a method of improving English acquisition. The area of computer assisted language learning (CALL) is increasingly becoming important within the second language learning arena. As the expansion of available technology continues to increase, insight into opinions about the effectiveness of CALL and specifically those opinions of the actual users will be needed.
As an instructor of adult ESL students, my study focused on providing information about my student's use of technology for future personal classroom praxis. This research …
Fulfilling The Dream : An Online Early Childhood Teacher Education Course, Pauline Taylor
Fulfilling The Dream : An Online Early Childhood Teacher Education Course, Pauline Taylor
Associate Professor Pauline Taylor-Guy