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I Want To Become A Nurse Campaign: School Counselors' Perceptions Of Nursing, Cheryl Williams, Laurie Dickstein-Fischer

Cheryl Williams

Presentation at the National League for Nursing Education Summit in San Diego, CA in September, 2017.

The Influence Of Psychosocial Factors On Academic Performance Of Adolescents: A Quality Assurance Project, S. A. Gulzar, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Amina Aijaz, Neesha Hussain

Tazeen Ali

Adolescence is a time of rapid psychological and physiological changes and is associated with anxiety and mental distress. This project looks at the potential of school-based programs to reduce these negative effects of academic performance in both the short- and long-term. This study was conducted in a private school in Karachi, Pakistan between October 1998 and December 2006 on 305 students with low academic performance. Results show that students scoring low grades had a mean of 55 + 2.8 and postintervention score of 56 + 2.6. The intervention package significantly created a difference in reducing the number of students receiving …

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Evaluation Of An E-Portfolio Pilot Streamlining.Docx, Carrie Smucker

Deborah Bambini

There is need in higher education for a comprehensive electronic system that bridges administrative and curricular processes. Such a system would create an interconnected and streamlined platform that supports three aspects of administrative and curricular processes: processing graduate school applications, housing student progression files and tracking program outcomes through student projects. Academic departments need flexible information systems to improve office processes, particularly in the areas of school application processing and student progression documents. These departments also need a mechanism to report how their curricula are meeting benchmarks. A comprehensive system would follow the student from the application stage to the …