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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
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Nachman, Brett Ranon – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2020
This article provides a systematic review of the literature related to college transition programs for students with autism. It addresses how individual programs themselves, as well as associated research, can be enhanced to accommodate the needs, identities, and pathways of individual students with autism more effectively. Methods entailed…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities
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Grigal, Meg; Dwyre, Amy; Emmett, Joyce; Emmett, Richard – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
This article describes the development and use of a program evaluation tool designed to support self-assessment of college-based dual enrollment transition programs serving students with intellectual disabilities between the ages of 18-21 in college settings. The authors describe the need for such an evaluation tool, outline the areas addressed by…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Service Learning
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Hamshire, Claire; Cullen, W. Rod – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2014
The transition to higher education can be problematic for some students as they adapt to institutional procedures and degree level working at the same time as developing new social networks. To help facilitate these complex transitions institutions are increasingly turning towards digital technologies to provide both flexible access to resources…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Student Adjustment
Corning, Amy; Senechal, Jesse; Hutton, Amy – State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, 2015
In the fall of 2008, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) commissioned a research study comparing the college access provider resources in Virginia to the access and academic achievement needs of the state. That study--conducted by researchers from the College of William and Mary and West Carolina University--resulted in the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Statewide Planning, State Surveys, Higher Education
Sambolt, Megan; Balestreri, Kathryn – College and Career Readiness and Success Center, 2013
Preparing students to succeed in college and careers requires aligned systems that allow for smooth transitions between institutions as well as integrated supports to enable learners to progress toward careers. Student transitions from secondary to postsecondary education and/or careers have long been stumbling blocks because preschool through…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Readiness, Transitional Programs, Cooperative Planning
Goff, Lori – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
A peer-mentoring program was developed for students in an introductory biology course at a university in Ontario, Canada. Students could attend up to five peer-mentoring sessions during their first semester. Quantitative-survey, participation, and academic data spanning from 2003 through 2007 were reviewed for the purpose of evaluating the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Biology, Foreign Countries, Mentors
Complete College America, 2012
The intentions were noble. It was hoped that remediation programs would be an academic bridge from poor high school preparation to college readiness. Sadly, remediation has become instead higher education's "Bridge to Nowhere." This broken remedial bridge is travelled by some 1.7 million beginning students each year, most of whom will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Preparation, Remedial Instruction, Developmental Studies Programs
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Fowler, Jane; Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2008
Common Time (CT) was a structured programme designed to enhance the social and academic engagement of a growingly diverse student body on a new campus that draws its population from a low-socioeconomic area. As a voluntary and non-remedial programme, it incorporated a range of formal and informal activities and processes to engage students. CT…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Academic Achievement, Intellectual Development, Partnerships in Education
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Quayle, Michael; Essack, Zaynab – Perspectives in Education, 2007
Universities in South Africa face the challenge of redressing past (and continuing) inequalities in higher education by increasing accessibility to previously (and currently) disadvantaged students. One means of doing so is through 'access' or 'bridging' programmes. This article explores successful students' perceptions of one such programme at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Articulation (Education), Humanities, Focus Groups
Berger, Andrea R.; Cole, Susan; Duffy, Helen; Edwards, Sarah; Knudson, Joel; Kurki, Anja; Golden, Laura; Lundeen, Janet; Poland, Lindsay; Rojas, Daniela; Shkolnik, Jamie; Stone, Celeste Kline; Turk-Bicakci, Lori; Yoon, Kwang Suk; Adelman, Nancy; Cassidy, Lauren; Keating, Kaeli; Nielsen, Natalie – American Institutes for Research, 2009
The Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI) launched in 2002 with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The ECHSI provides funds for the development of Early College Schools (ECSs) that serve students who traditionally are underrepresented in postsecondary education and offers them the opportunity to simultaneously pursue a high…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High Schools, College Credits, Higher Education
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Pratt, Michael W.; Hunsberger, Bruce; Pancer, S. Mark; Alisat, Susan; Bowers, Colleen; Mackey, Kathleen; Ostaniewicz, Alexandra; Rog, Evelina; Terzian, Bert; Thomas, Nicola – Journal of College Student Development, 2000
Describes an intervention involving social-support-focused discussion groups for the transition to university. Fifty first-year students participating in six groups showed better adjustment to university and fewer behavioral problems compared with a randomly assigned control group (N=46) at a follow-up evaluation conducted at the end of the year.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, College Freshmen, College Preparation, Higher Education
Nichols, Elaine F.; Lenburg, Carrie B.; Soehnlen, Joyce K. – Nursing and Health Care Perspectives, 2000
Transition courses for licensed practical nurses moving into associate degree programs and for registered nurses earning bypass credit in bachelor's degree programs was evaluated through surveys of 237 students and graduates, 68 supervisors, and faculty. Students invested half the time and money as regular students; they wanted better advisement…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Articulation (Education), Credits, Educational Mobility
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Berthold, Peter; Lopez, Naty – Journal of Dental Education, 1994
This article describes the University of Pennsylvania's School of Dental Medicine's Program for Advanced Standing Students (PASS) which provides graduates of foreign dental schools with an intensive summer program to prepare them for integration with four-year students for the last two years of didactic and clinical curriculum. A survey of 72 PASS…
Descriptors: Foreign Medical Graduates, Foreign Students, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education
Milton, Toby H.; Schmidtlein, Frank A. – 2000
The Maryland Case Study is one of six comprehensive state case studies of the transition of students from high school to college being conducted as part of "The Bridge Project: Strengthening K-16 Transition Policies." The Maryland components of the Bridge Project focuses on undergraduate admission and placement policies and procedures at…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Preparation, High School Students, High Schools
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