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An Examination of Influential Factors of Academic Dishonesty and Ethical Decision-Making among Community College Nursing Students
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Roshelle Laticia Lemon-Howard – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Academic dishonesty remains a pervasive, multi-discipline dilemma which has been reported as having the propensity of resulting in longstanding consequences beyond academic settings. Previous research has suggested that students who participate in dishonest behaviors while attending institutions of higher education have greater tendencies to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Ethics, Integrity, Community College Students
The Nudge to Finish Up: A National Study of Community College Near-Completion Students
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Chen, Yu; Hu, Xiaodan – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Community college near-completion students are community college starters who have accumulated a considerable number of credits but left college without any postsecondary educational credential. This quantitative study examined a nationally representative sample and intended to reveal significant predictors of becoming a community college…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Credits, Dropout Characteristics
A Qualitative Examination of Drinking Patterns among Community College Students
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Thind, Herpreet; Rosen, Rochelle K.; Barnett, Nancy P.; Walaska, Kristen; Traficante, Regina; Bock, Beth C. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain insight about patterns of alcohol use and related consequences among heavy drinking community college students. Participants: About 26 community college students (Mean age 22.3 years, 46% men, 69% White) participated in this study between January and April 2013. Methods: Five qualitative focus group…
Descriptors: Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Patterns, Student Attitudes
"Living More through Knowing More": College Education in Prison Classrooms
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Kallman, Meghan Elizabeth – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2020
A growing national focus on prison reform has led to a resurgence of interest in carceral education. However, and although college education prison is different from college education in the community, relatively little scholarship has explored why or how these variations exist, what they mean, or how they have changed over time. The present paper…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students, Community Colleges
Retrospective Miscue Analysis and the Socialization of One Young Adult Reader
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Theurer, Joan Leikam – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
The purpose of this case study research was to investigate the use of Retrospective Miscue Analysis (RMA) with a community college student enrolled in a college remedial reading course. This study explored two questions: (1) What types of reading strategies and behavior patterns are used by high school graduates enrolled in a community college…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Remedial Reading, Reading Strategies, High School Graduates
The Bird's Eye View of Community Colleges: A Behavioral Typology of First-Time Students Based on Cluster Analytic Classification
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Bahr, Peter Riley – Research in Higher Education, 2010
The development of a typology of community college students is a topic of long-standing and growing interest among educational researchers, policy-makers, administrators, and other stakeholders, but prior work on this topic has been limited in a number of important ways. In this paper, I develop a behavioral typology based on students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Research, Enrollment Trends, Classification