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Creating An Adult Learner Entry Achievement Program, Gloria Riopelle

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

ABSTRACT

This proposal is to implement an Adult Learner Entry Achievement Program (ALEAP) within higher education institutions. The purpose of the ALEAP program is to support and serve the needs of adult learners who want to return to or begin college to earn their degree or certificate and pursue their personal or career goals. In turn, their achievements will also increase the higher education attainment rates in the State of Minnesota. This program could exist as a stand-alone program or be housed within support systems, such as, Continuing Education or an Academic Support Center.

Current research indicates that there is …

Gearing Up For College, Beatriz Amy Huerta

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Sadly, in the Greenfield community, there are exceedingly high rates of individuals who lack post-secondary education. The Census (2010), states that only 4.8% of persons age 25 years and older in Greenfield, CA obtain a bachelor’s degree. At Greenfield High School over the past five years, an average of 16 students enrolled at a CSU campus (The California State University, 2018). In efforts to promote higher education, Gear Up (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) empowers students and families of the Monterey County by fostering equitable access to postsecondary education and career readiness through relevant rigorous academic and …

Analysis Of Student-Athletes And Summer Internship Experiences In The Construction Management Department, Amanda Rose Sandoval

Construction Management

Summer internships are a valuable way for implementing practical knowledge in the construction industry. Students can apply what they have learned during the school year and visualize the reality of how construction is managed. This project will research what student-athletes typically invest their time in over summer and the construction company’s connection to the student-athlete department. The analysis will identify if there is a need to propose a program that can improve the relationship between the construction management and student-athlete departments. Two surveys were conducted to collect information about student-athletes summer activity history and their perspective of internship experience, as …

Principal Leaders And College And Career Readiness Programs, Inna Goretaya Polishchuk

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the intersection of high school principals and college and career readiness initiatives in five high school contexts. Because school principals are responsible for setting the vision in a school, college and career readiness initiatives have the potential to overlap significantly with the principal’s direction of the school. Moreover, studies indicate college and career readiness programs might rely on the active support of the school administrator if they are to succeed. What the school leader cares about tends to be what staff focus on; therefore, this study examines how three factors influence the effectiveness of a college and …

Pengembangan Panduan Pelatihan Empati Menggunakan Teknik Sinema Edukasi Untuk Mencegah Perilaku Bullying Siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama, Vesti Dwi Cahyaningrum, Dany Moenindyah Handarini, Irene Maya Simon

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This study aimed to develop a training guide of empathy attitude skills as prevention of bullying behavior on junior high school students. The method was a research and development model. The subjects of the research were guidance and counseling experts; educational technology expert; and school counselors. The instrument was the empathy attitude skill scale for students; expert assessment instruments and counselor assessment instruments. Data from the assessment results of guidance and counseling expert; educational technology expert; and three school counselors in three different schools in Malang City showed that the developed products were acceptable and feasible to be used to …

Hubungan Antara Mindfulness Dengan Kepuasan Hidup Mahasiswa Bimbingan Dan Konseling, Pranazabdian Waskito, J.T. Lobby Loekmono, Yari Dwikurnaningsih

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The research aimed at identifying the relation between mindfulness and life satisfaction among guidance and counseling students. The research was a correlational study using Kendall’s Tau-b correlation analysis technique. The respondents were 135 students from the Guidance and Counseling Study Program, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. The data were gathered using the mindfulness scale and the life satisfaction scale. The results of the research showed that there had been positive and significant relationship between mindfulness and life satisfaction among the students of Guidance and Counseling Study Program, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Universitas Kristen …

Perbedaan Self-Regulated Learning Siswa Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Berdasarkan Jenis Kelamin, Wahyu Nanda Eka Saputra, Said Alhadi, Agus Supriyanto, Claudy Desya Wiretna, Babay Baqiyatussolihat

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purpose of this study was to identify the differences in self-regulated learning of male and female students in Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Muhammadiyah in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This quantitative study using comparative method involving 414 students consisting of 226 male students and 188 female students as sample. The sample selection used Stratified Random Sampling technique. The instrument was the Self-regulated Learning Scale. To identify the differences in self-regulated learning of male and female students, Independent Sample Test were used. The results showed that there were significant differences between self-regulated learning of male and female students at Sekolah …

Experiential Learning Untuk Meningkatkan Kompetensi Multikultural Mahasiswa, Mawardi Djamaluddin, Blasius Boli Lasan, Adi Atmoko

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The study aims at measuring the effectiveness of experiential learning model for improving the multicultural competence of non-Javanese students in the Malang City. The true-experiment type quantitative study is conducted by using the pretest-posttest control group design. The subjects were 20 non-Javanese students in several universities in Malang City that had low multicultural competence. The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test was implemented in order to compare the score of the students before and after the treatment. In addition, Mann-Whitney U Test was also implemented in order to compare the level of effectiveness statistically between the control group and the experimental group …

Permainan Roda Pelangi Sebagai Media Untuk Meningkatkan Karakter Fairness Siswa Sekolah Dasar, Nora Yuniar Setyaputri, Yuanita Dwi Krisphianti, Ikke Yuliani Dhian Puspitarini

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Roda Pelangi game to improve elementary school students’ fairness character. The research method was an experiment with a nonequivalent control group design type. The research instruments were: interview guidelines; observation guidelines; and Fairness Character Measurement Scale. The sample were twelve fourth grade students of Permata Ummat Trenggalek Integrated Islamic Elementary School that was chosen through purposive sampling. The significance score obtained based on data analysis using independent sample t-test was 0.047<0.05. The result showed Roda Pelangi game can improve elementary school students’ fairness character. Based on these results, it recommended: school counselor can use Roda Pelangi game in the guidance and counseling service process, especially to improve elementary school students’ fairness character; further researchers can use Roda Pelangi game to examine other variables and at other school levels using other research designs such as true experiment or guidance and counseling action research.

Examining The Meaning Of Course Evaluation, Tyesha Stewart

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teaching evaluations significantly influence faculty members’ annual evaluations and progress toward tenure and promotion within academic programs in higher education. Those with consistently strong, positive, teaching evaluations have been deemed effective instructors and often validated with increases in salary, teaching awards, and promotion and tenure. This is especially the case when strong course evaluations are received in addition to documented scholarship and research activities and positively evaluated professional service. However, questions are being raised about the meaningfulness of students' ratings of course instruction. Do these measures effectively assess competence as instructors or do they measure other unknown processes in the …

Pre-Boomer Students On Campus: An Exploratory Study Of How Students Born Before 1946 Experience The Youth-Oriented Campus Culture At Unm, Elinor Sue Coates Phd

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

Older learners have been studied thoroughly, except for those born before 1946, preceding the post-war "population bulge" (Carlson, 2008; Laditka, Fischer, Laditka, & Segal, 2004; Verstynen, 2011). Most such studies define "older" as over 25 or over 40, and fail to separate the subject group from those who came later. Defining a group by numerical age is problematic because it changes every year and soon omits the group's defining life experiences (Pilcher, 1994), which for this group include the Great Depression, World War II, the polio epidemic, and life before television. To address that gap this critical ethnography explored the …

Integrasi Konseling Kelompok Cognitive Behavior Therapy Dengan Passive Music Therapy Untuk Mereduksi Academic Anxiety, Efektifkah?, Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang, Mulawarman Mulawarman, Mungin Eddy Wibowo

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of group counseling with cognitive behavior therapy approach using passive music therapy technique to reduce the academic anxiety of students who is writing thesis. The research used quasi-experimental design (pretest, posttest, and follow-up). Group counseling was conducted for five meetings, and follow-up was performed two weeks after the treatment. Research subjects were seven students. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the subjects, that is based on inclusion criteria and level of academic anxiety which is obtained from academic anxiety scale (rxy = 0.536-0.823, coefficient alpha = 0.963). The results …

Pemanfaatan Media Bimbingan Dan Konseling Di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Muhammadiyah Se-Kota Yogyakarta, Hardi Prasetiawan, Said Alhadi

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The particular study aimed to know the utilization of media in guidance and counseling service provided by school counselor. Quantitative approach was used in the study. The research instrument was questionnaire with five alternative answers, such: very often; often; rare; sometime; and never. The result of the study showed the use of media in guidance and counseling service by school counselor ranging from visual media, electronic media; audio visual media; computer media.

Kematangan Emosi Remaja Pelaku Bullying, Siti Maryam, Fatmawati Fatmawati

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

In recent year, there is a number of news in the mass media on violence in the school, including bullying. The high number of juvenile delinquency is the result of a lack of ability to control emotions in an acceptable way, causing the individual to easily engage the group's influence to perform negative behavior, including bullying behavior. From the above explanation, we interested to examine more deeply how the emotional maturity in adolescents bully in Junior High School 9 Banda Aceh. This study was done through quantitave method by using using the Emotional Maturity scale developed by Katkovsky and Gorlow. …

Modul Latihan Self-Assessment: Media Bagi Siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas Untuk Tahap Awal Perencanaan Karier, Eni Rindi Antika, Andi Mappiare-At, Ella Faridati Zen

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

In general, the particular research and development aimed to produce modules for students and guidebook modules for counselor which is acceptable both theoretically and practically. The acceptability is assessed in the terms of format or design, as well as the material content and practice. The developmental procedures adapted from Borg and Gall model, namely: (1) stage I preliminary study and planning, (2) stage II product development, (3) stage III product trial, (4) stage IV product revision, and (5) final product. The product was a Self-Assessment Training Module as a Career Stage Planning of Students in Senior High School and its …

Pengembangan Website Cybercounseling Realita Untuk Meningkatkan Keterbukaan Diri Siswa Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan, Abi Fa'izzarahman Prabawa, M Ramli, Lutfi Fauzan

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This research and development aims to produce a cybercounseling reality website and a reality cybercounseling guidebook to improve self-disclosure for Vocational High School students which are grateful theoretically and practically. The research and development study steps are: preliminary study, product development, and product test. Product’s guidelines are tested using one group pretest-posttest design. Product test results show that cybercounseling reality website is gratefully theoretically and practically and also effectively to improve Vocational High School students’ self-disclosure.

Hands-On With On-Site Students? Exploration Of The Expanding Role Of The Third-Party Provider Education Abroad Advisor, Emma Lynch

Capstone Collection

According to the Forum on Education Abroad’s State of the Field 2017 survey, more students on average studied abroad with third-party providers than with both private and public institutions combined in the 2016-2017 academic year. However, many of the resources available and best practices for the profession are focused toward advisors who work at institutions of higher education. These resources often discuss how contact with on-site students should be established, but only vague references are made for advisors employed by a provider. This study discusses the potential impacts that education abroad advisors at third-party providers may have on the student …

Pengembangan Panduan Pelatihan Keterampilan Mengelola Emosi Sebagai Upaya Preventif Perilaku Bullying Siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama, Luthfita Cahya Irani, Dany Moenindyah Handarini, Lutfi Fauzan

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This study aims to develop a training guide in emotion management skills to prevent bullying behavior for junior high school students. The method used is the research and development model. The trial subjects in this study included guidance and counseling experts, psychology experts, educational technology expert, and school counselors. Instruments used are the scale of emotion management skills for students, expert assessment instruments and counselors assessment instruments. Data from the assessment of guidance and counseling experts, psychology experts, educational technology expert, and three school counselors from three different schools in Malang showed that the developed product is acceptable and feasible …

Hubungan Antara Persepsi Terhadap Layanan Bimbingan Belajar Dengan Kemandirian Belajar Peserta Didik Sekolah Menengah Pertama, Andika Ari Saputra, Budi Astuti

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This study is intended to identify the correlation between perception on tutoring services and Junior High School students’ autonomy. This study was a correlational and expose facto study. The population of this study is the entire students of Sekolah Menengah Pertama Negeri 10 Yogyakarta amount to 506 students. Then, this study took 253 students as research sample which is determined by using proportional stratified random sampling. The data were obtained employing perception on tutoring services scale and students’ autonomy scale. Cronbach’s Alpha was used to examine the reliability and it obtained p = 0,743 for perception on tutoring services and …

Studi Komparasi Kinerja Konselor Dalam Layanan Konseling Individual Berdasarkan Self Evaluation Dan Peer Evaluation, Muya Barida, Sutarno Sutarno

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purpose of this study was to evaluate school counselor performance in organizing individual counseling services using self evaluation and peer evaluation. This study uses descriptive survey approach through descriptive comparative study. Subjects are school counselors in Special Region of Yogyakarta, especially Bantul District. Data analysis used Mann-Whitney U test. Based on result obtained by Mann-Whitney U significance value between self evaluation with peer evaluation is 0,657 (> 0,05). This means that there is no significant difference in counselor performance evaluation based on self evaluation and peer evaluation instruments.

Meningkatkan Percaya Diri Siswa Melalui Teknik Cognitive Defusion, Wahyu Nanda Eka Saputra, Hardi Prasetiawan

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of cognitive defusion technique to increase students’ self confidence. This study used a pre-experimental design with one group pre-test post-test design. Subject in this study were six vocational high school student which have low self-confidence. The instrument used is self-confidence scale. To analyze the subjects’ self confidence after receiving cognitive defusion technique, we use the wilcoxon sign test. The results confirm that students' confidence level score were increase after being treat using cognitive defusion technique. It can be concluded that cognitive defusion technique are effective for improving students' self-confidence.

The Effectiveness Of Transtheoretical Model To Reduce Compulsive Internet Use Of Senior High School Students, Yevin Fitri Kuspar Indah, M Ramli, Blasius Boli Lasan

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This research aims at examining the effectiveness of transtheoretical model to reduce compulsive internet use of Senior High School students. This research employed single subject design approach. The subject of this research is four students of X graders at St. Joseph Senior High School Malang which obtained high compulsive internet use score. This research utilized transtheoretical model counseling guidebook, compulsive internet use scale, observation and interview guidebook. The results of significant visual and score margin between pre-test and post-test indicate that transtheoretical model is effective to reduce compulsive internet use among Senior High School students.

Art Majors' Perceptions Of Their Self-Concept, Academic Self-Efficacy, And Social Identity, Sara E. Triplett

Masters Theses

This study utilized a qualitative approach was used to provide insight into students' perspectives on their self-concept, academic self-efficacy, and social identity in relation to their majors at a mid-size Midwestern university. Two undergraduate students majoring in 2D Studio Art and three undergraduate students majoring in Theater Performance were interviewed. Through individual interviews several themes emerged such as: 1) using art to have a meaningful impact on the audience, communicating a message, and clarifying their understanding of the world was important; 2) clear professional support strengthened art majors' self-efficacy; and 3) peer groups play a large part in art majors' …

Interpretative Analysis Of Adult Learners’ Lived Experiences In A Uniquely Designed Higher Education Program, Latonya M. Branham

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The lived and collegiate experiences of adult learners, who are among the fastest growing student population in 21st century higher education, is the essence of this study. The study was conducted using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Fifteen baccalaureate level degree-seeking study participants consented to share their respective journeys. Twenty-one interviews were conducted for the study. Code-listed categories, themes and sub-themes emerged from two interview sessions, and member-checking sessions. Several themes were aligned to two research questions: In what ways, if any, are the distinctive needs and expectations of adult learners fulfilled through a baccalaureate level adult learner program; and, what does …

Listening To Our Graduate Students' Feedback: Graduate Student Exit And Alumni Surveys, Alison W. Hong-Novotney

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Student and alumni surveys have become some of the most widely-used methods of assessment of student learning in higher education. While the majority of literature on student surveys and assessment focuses on undergraduate students, this study looks specifically at why graduate student exit and alumni surveys can be valuable tools within a comprehensive assessment plan. Listening to the feedback of current and former graduate students, and then acting upon that feedback, is crucial for the engagement and success of this unique population of students who bring their particular strengths and needs to their educational experiences. This study examined how master’s …

Pengaruh Permainan Edukatif Terhadap Interaksi Sosial Siswa Taman Kanak-Kanak, Putu Agus Indrawan, Betrics Maria Mando, Suriata Suriata

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The aims of this study is to determine the effect of educational game on kindergarten students’s social interaction. This quantitative research uses Quasi Experimental research design in Reversal Time Series Design. The population in this study were 56 B1 grade kindergarten students of Taman Kanak-kanak St. Francis Xaverius Tarakan, then we took 10 of them as a sample. The data collection technique used is using observation. The data were analysed using graphical analysis technique, then a decision were made based on: frequency, latency, tendency of stability, tendency of chart direction, and level change. The results show that educational games have …

Keefektifan Konseling Behavioral Teknik Modeling Dan Konseling Analisis Transaksional Teknik Role Playing Untuk Meminimalkan Kecenderungan Perilaku Agresif Siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas, I Ketut Gading, Umrotun Nisa, Luh Putu Sri Lestari

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of behavioral counseling using modeling technique and counseling transactional analysis using role playing technique to minimize student’s tendency of aggressive behavior. This experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design is taking samples using purposive sampling technique. The sample were 18 tenth grade students from Senior High School Laboratorium Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha who have high aggressive behavior. 18 sample were randomly assigned to three group, that is: (1) experimental group of behavioral counseling using modeling technique; (2) counseling transactional analysis using role playing technique group; and (3) control group. Data on aggressive behavior tendency …

Pengekspresian Jatuh Cinta Siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama Melalui Media Tulisan: Kreativitas Atau Vandalisme?, Intan Imaningtyas, Adi Atmoko, Triyono Triyono

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purpose of this research is to understand the characteristics of falling in love and the love expression in writing media (graffiti) on Junior High School students. The chosen approach is qualitative approach with phenomenological research type. The subject is students of Sekolah Menengah Pertama Pancadarma Malang. The result shows love is expressed in the form of courting behavior, the love that underlies this relationship is romantic love so it cannot be said to be deep love (unreflective). In love expression, it can be directly (oral and action) or indirect (writing). The expression of love through writing can be classified …

Perbedaan Kematangan Sosial Siswa Yang Berasal Dari Sekolah Homogen Dan Sekolah Heterogen, Peni Ramanda, Imalatul Khairat

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purposes of this study is to describes: (1) the social maturity of students from homogeneous school and heterogeneous schools; (2) to examine whether there is a difference of social maturity levels of students from the homogeneous schools and heterogeneous schools. The samples of this quantitative research are 206 students from Madrasah Aliyah Swasta Ar-Risalah and Madrasah Aliyah Swasta Tarbiyah Islamiyah Batang Kabung. Sample were chosen using proportional random sampling techniques. The instrument used in this research is the scale of the social maturity of students. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and t-test. The research findings shows that: …

Perbedaan Tingkat Perilaku Agresi Berdasarkan Jenis Kelamin Pada Siswa Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Kota Yogyakarta, Wahyu Nanda Eka Saputra, Nadiah Hanifah, Dika Nur Widagdo

Jurnal Kajian Bimbingan dan Konseling

The purpose of this study is to identify whether there are differences between male student aggression behavior and female students aggresive behavior in Yogyakarta. This comparative study involved 160 students from Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan Muhammadiyah in Yogyakarta as a sample. Simple Random Sampling technique were used to choose sample. The instrument used is the scale of aggression behavior. Independent Samples Test were used to analysis the data. The research findings show that there is no significant difference between male student aggression behavior and female students aggresive behavior. This study recommends counseling service to reduce and overcome student aggression behavior.