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Kniess, Dena R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The majority of retention efforts have focused on the first-year of college, however just as many students leave college after their second-year (Berkner, He, & Forest, 2002; Lipka, 2006). Experiences of second-year students have been appearing in publications. These studies have identified the broad concerns of the second-year experience, but…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Phenomenology
Orsi, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this methodological study is to explore how well a process called "concept mapping" (Trochim, 1989) can articulate the theory which underlies a social program. Articulation of a program's theory is a key step in completing a sound theory based evaluation (Weiss, 1997a). In this study, concept mapping is used to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Articulation (Education), Community Organizations, Program Development