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Academic Advising, Academic Integration And First Year African American College Student Intention To Persist, Cassandra Graham
Academic Advising, Academic Integration And First Year African American College Student Intention To Persist, Cassandra Graham
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The U.S. college persistence rate for African American students, remains lowest in comparison to other race/ethnicities. Academic advising and other forms of academic integration are emphasized in prior research as associated with positively influencing persistence outcomes. However, a gap exists in the literature regarding their impact for four-year African American students and success factors for persistence of these students. Existing academic advisement studies are primarily institutional with a small sample size, as opposed to a national sample, and very few are focused on quantitative data analysis.
Therefore, through the analysis of national data from the 2018 National Survey of Student …
The Impact Of The Science Of Reading Training On The Nwea Map Test Scores Of Elementary African American Students In A Central Arkansas School District, Katina Simpson-Ray
The Impact Of The Science Of Reading Training On The Nwea Map Test Scores Of Elementary African American Students In A Central Arkansas School District, Katina Simpson-Ray
ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present
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THE IMPACT OF THE SCIENCE OF READING TRAINING ON THE NWEA MAP TEST SCORES OF ELEMENTARY AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS IN A CENTRAL ARKANSAS SCHOOL DISTRICT
Katina Latrice Simpson-Ray
The state of Arkansas adopted ACT 1063 in 2017, which was designed to improve reading achievement for all students. Included in the law was the requirement that “curriculum programs that are supported by the science of reading and based on the instruction that is explicit, systematic, cumulative, and diagnostic be implemented (Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2020). All K12 teachers and administrators, as well as higher education institutions, were required …