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Sarah A. Levin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student veterans may encounter educational barriers that can impact transitions to college. This research focused on veteran transitions to college during onboarding. Onboarding is beneficial in a higher education setting and, when properly deployed, can help ease transitions. This study involved the development, implementation, and assessment of…
Descriptors: School Orientation, Program Development, Transitional Programs, Program Evaluation
Hedrick, Amanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Shawnee State University (SSU) founded Project BEAR: Building Emerging and Achieving Readers, an AmeriCorps program, to support literacy development and improve school readiness in the Appalachian region. After the first 2 years of program implementation, areas for growth including enhanced service member recruitment, member onboarding, and…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Government, Volunteers, School Readiness
Jade William Sandbulte – ProQuest LLC, 2020
International sojourners who are learning a new language in an immersion environment are the focus of many second language acquisition research studies. Several studies have examined the language socialization of populations such as study abroad participants (Duff, 2007; Kinginger, 2008, 2015) and international students (Ortactepe, 2013; Umino…
Descriptors: Socialization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
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Goodman, Sandy; Kallenbach, Silja – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2018
Transition to College and Careers was a two-year demonstration project that addressed both academic and non-academic barriers to college for adult learners. Of the 397 adult learners who enrolled in one of the six participating programs, 66% completed it, 69% attained college level reading skills, and the majority enrolled in college afterwards.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Adult Students, Barriers
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this directory was to identify, describe, and evaluate evidence that the education practices improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented 6th grade through college students. Method: The sample for the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
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Bahn, Susanne; Barratt-Pugh, Llandis – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
Since January 1, 2007, Government legislation in Western Australia required all workers in construction to complete mandatory safety awareness training before they began work on site. During the implementation of this new legislation there was considerable resistance from the construction sector due to the mandatory nature of the training. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Orientation, Safety Education
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Roderick, Ryan – Community Literacy Journal, 2013
This study investigates how literacy was constructed at an adult literacy organization's volunteer tutor-training program. By drawing on qualitative analysis of training texts used during training, such as training evaluations, and data gathered from interviews with experienced tutors, it is possible to identify the assumptions about literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Program Evaluation, Interviews, Instructional Materials
Watta, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study describes a program evaluation of a community college adult program for underprepared learners in the eastern lower peninsula of Michigan. The purpose of the program is to make postsecondary education more accessible to those adults who typically would not consider postsecondary education an option. Guided by Cross's adult learning…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Community Colleges, Adult Education, Academic Persistence
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this directory was to identify, describe, and evaluate evidence that the education practices improve academic performance, close the achievement gap, and improve persistence towards graduation for low-income, first-generation, and historically-underrepresented 6th grade through college students. Method: The sample for the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Andrew Wiegand; Michelle Manno; Sengsouvanh Leshnick; Louisa Treskon; Christian Geckeler; Heather Lewis-Charp; Castle Sinicrope; Mika Clark; Brandon Nicholson – MDRC, 2015
YouthBuild is intended to help high school dropouts, ages 16 to 24, who face an array of impediments to their educational and employment success as they progress into adulthood. Stemming from one program launched in the late 1970s, today over 270 YouthBuild programs operate nationwide. YouthBuild is a principles-based model that values a…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Adolescents, Young Adults, Youth Programs
Killion, Joellen – Learning Forward, 2013
This workbook guides a team in reviewing, revising, or replacing an existing professional learning system. The process outlined and the tools included support the team in conducting all aspects of its work, usually done over several months, with continuous progress monitoring and input from research, experts, and constituents. The workbook is…
Descriptors: Workbooks, State Departments of Education, Professional Development, School Districts
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Acevedo, Jose M.; Yancey, George B. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the importance of new employee orientation (NEO) programs, the quality of typical NEOs, and how to improve NEOs. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides a viewpoint of the importance of new employee orientation programs, the quality of typical NEOs, and how to improve NEOs. Findings: Although western…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Staff Orientation, Program Improvement, Educational Quality
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Cunningham, Robin; Eddy, Michael; Pagano, Mark; Ncube, Lisa – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
In 2002 President Martin Jischke initiated a new era in strategic planning at Purdue. Under his leadership, strategic planning became a centralized activity with unit plans aligned to the university plan. Strategic goals were designed to have maximum impact, which would be measurable through metrics. Strategic planning at Purdue would be an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Extension Education, College Presidents, Leadership Styles
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Hunte, Stephanie – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
The number of online continuous education and training initiatives continues to increase in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and by extension, the number of adult learners who are unfamiliar with the peculiarities of the online teaching and learning environment. The extent to which these learners can derive maximum benefit from…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Online Courses
National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Education, 2008
Mini-Med Schools are public education programs now offered by more than 70 medical schools, universities, research institutions, and hospitals across the nation. There are even Mini-Med Schools in Ireland, Malta, and Canada! The program is typically a lecture series that meets once a week and provides "mini-med students" information on some of the…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Public Education, School Community Relationship, Program Evaluation
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