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"If You Build Them Up, They Will Stay": The Role Of Recognition And Feedback On Student Retention, James R. Jones
"If You Build Them Up, They Will Stay": The Role Of Recognition And Feedback On Student Retention, James R. Jones
Marketing and Management Faculty Proceedings & Presentations
While such stratagems are certainly well founded, and have achieved varying degrees of success, it may be that a more fundamentally vital area of examination is being largely overlooked, namely the impact of the high school experience. One of the critical problems facing many institutions of higher learning is that of student retention. While this issue is an important one to address across the entire student population, it has become particularly acute as relates to "minority" pupils. Accordingly, many colleges and universities have developed strategies to try to arrest enrollment attrition. These strategies typically include such mechanisms as tracking programs, …
Widening Literacy: A Training Manual For Managers Of Adult Literacy Learning Programs, Alan Rogers, Joanie Cohen-Mitchell, Udaya Manandhar
Widening Literacy: A Training Manual For Managers Of Adult Literacy Learning Programs, Alan Rogers, Joanie Cohen-Mitchell, Udaya Manandhar
Methods, Training, & Materials Development
This training manual has been developed to serve two purposes:
- To be used as the basis of a training program. To this end, some comments are addressed to the trainer.
- To be read independently of a training program as a tool for self-directed learning. To this end, some remarks are addressed to the independent reader.
Both sets of users may of course use this manual in whichever way they prefer, starting where they wish to start and finishing where they wish to finish. But we recommend that you look at the introduction before you begin to work on any section …
Kinsey Dialogue Series #2: Participatory Research And Action: Flower, Weed, Or Genetically Modified Monster?, Eileen Kane
Kinsey Dialogue Series #2: Participatory Research And Action: Flower, Weed, Or Genetically Modified Monster?, Eileen Kane
Participatory Research & Practice
Over the last fifteen years I have been using participatory research in many areas, and especially to look at problems and opportunities for girls' education in developing countries. In this paper, I want to share some ideas about what I think needs to happen if participatory approaches are to grow and flourish in the future. The questions I am asking are, "what is participatory research? is it a sunflower, getting stronger as it pushes toward enlightenment? Is it kudzu, omnipresent and sometimes out of place? Is it a rootless creation, a carbuncle grafted on to the conventional trunk of research? …
Counting Quality, John Strassburger
Counting Quality, John Strassburger
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This is the fifth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.