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Bergman, Matt; Herd, Ann M.; Green, Ehren R. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
The veteran military-to-civilian transition (MCT) process continues to be complex and unwielding. Higher education has an opportunity to ease this transition, but, unfortunately many institutions still miss the mark. One mechanism higher education institutes can incorporate to help with the transition is the use of prior learning assessments or…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Student Evaluation, Transitional Programs, Military Personnel
Anglin, Becky – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Many factors revolve around scholarly writing, especially in an RN to BSN program. Many nursing leaders have reported scholarly writing as an area students struggle with during their academic careers. Online writing orientations can help aid in this dilemma, yet few universities are currently using this option. There is little research to support…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Nursing Education, Bachelors Degrees, Orientation
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Dodd, Emlyn; Ellis, Sarah; Singh, Sonal – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
The U@Uni Academy provides a case study of a composite preparation and access programme, integrating key elements of widening participation, alternate entry and enabling schemes. It is offered to students from a low socioeconomic background and focuses on non-traditional indicators of attainment in order to prepare for, access and successfully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Preparation, College Readiness, Transitional Programs
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Giselsson, Kristi – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
Critical thinking is a core skill within tertiary education, traditionally relying on such principles as logic and truth. Relativistic pedagogical frameworks, such as critical literacy, however, have become increasingly widespread within all levels of education and call into question such principles. In order to ascertain whether critical thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Critical Literacy, Student Evaluation, College Students
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Walter, Joseph E. – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2014
In the United States, our children face a number of factors that influence their behavior. Children's peers, parents and even the media, especially television, heavily influence students. Because of these influences, it can be difficult to motivate students in the classroom to strive for and achieve success. The purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Motivation Techniques, Achievement Need, Secondary School Students, College Students
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de Vries, Rebecca S.; Schmitt, Ara J. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2012
This study investigated postsecondary disability service providers' perceived usefulness of a Model Summary of Performance that was constructed for a student with a language-based learning disability. The 298 participants were asked to consider the content within the (a) student's test scores, (b) rationale for accommodations, (c) history and/or…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Models
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Leviatan, Talma – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2008
There has been a broad wave of change in tertiary calculus courses in the past decade. However, the much-needed change in tertiary pre-calculus programmes--aimed at bridging the gap between high-school mathematics and tertiary mathematics--is happening at a far slower pace. Following a discussion on the nature of the gap and the objectives of a…
Descriptors: Calculus, Teaching Methods, Transitional Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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Dalke, Connie; Schmitt, Susan – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
The article describes Project ASSIST, a five-week post-high school/precollege summer program to help learning disabled students adjust to the university environment at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The program emphasizes six components: affective support, diagnostic evaluation, academic reinforcement and instruction, strategy training,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Bound Students, College Students, Higher Education
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Parker, David R.; Benedict, Kenneth B. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2002
Based upon recent trends among college students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, an alternative model of assessment that transcends test-centered approaches is proposed. Differential diagnosis and comorbidity, medication management, and common maladaptive behavior patterns needing assessment, treatment, and prevention are discussed,…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Attention Deficit Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, College Students
Brinckerhoff, Loring C.; McGuire, Joan M.; Shaw, Stan F. – 2002
This text is designed to help postsecondary education personnel initiate or refine college programs for the increasing numbers of students with learning disabilities. Following an introductory chapter, chapters have the following titles: (1) "A Comprehensive Approach to Transition Planning"; (2) "Judicial Intent and Legal Precedents" (Laura F.…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), College Students, Educational Policy
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Wentzel, Carol; And Others – 1989
Project STAR was designed to demonstrate model instruction, retention, transition, and preparation practices for use with hearing-impaired community college students. The project consisted of a detailed student assessment, an extensive faculty inservice training component, and extensive instructional and counseling support for project students.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Preparation, College Programs, College Students
Munn, Pamela; And Others – 1993
The Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP) was designed to encourage adults to participate in higher education. Students enrolled in SWAP in 1991-92 and former SWAP students in their first year of higher education in 1991-92 were interviewed twice by telephone, near the beginning and toward the end of their SWAP course or first year. (The number…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Adult Students, College Students
Walling, Linda Lucas, Ed. – 1996
This monograph presents 11 papers which bring together information to help administrators, faculty, and staff in institutions of higher education better understand the needs of college freshmen and other new students with disabilities, including ways to meet those needs and the legal requirements which affect decision-making about service…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Education, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), College Freshmen
Patton, James R., Ed.; Polloway, Edward A., Ed. – 1996
This collection of 13 essays focuses on the many challenges that adults with learning disabilities face in educational, work, and social settings. The essays are: (1) "Adults with Learning Disabilities: An Emerging Area of Professional Interest and Public Attention" (James R. Patton and Edward A. Polloway); (2) "Adult Development Theories: An…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Development, Adults
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