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Direct linkMensah Prince Osiesi; Monica Ngozi Odinko; Sylvan Blignaut – Discover Education, 2024
This study aimed to evaluate the Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Programme (MCPDP) for Primary School Teachers in Ekiti State, Nigeria, between 2011 and 2021. Seventy public primary schools were purposively selected with teachers who attended MCPDP in Ekiti State, while 166 teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education, Elementary School Teachers
Download full textCyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Student Engagement in a Collegiate Science and Technology Program for Underrepresented STEM Students
Elmer-Rico E. Mojica; Brian R. Evans; Matthew Marcello – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2025
Supporting underrepresented students in STEM majors is critical for student retention. The Collegiate Science and Technology Program (CSTEP) grant has the purpose to build community among participants, help them feel connected, provide supportive programming, and retain them both in college and within STEM majors. This study used a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Disproportionate Representation, College Students
Sherri Martinie; Tuan Nguyen; Tegan Nusser; Craig Spencer; Rekha Natarajan – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2023
One potential avenue to address the STEM teacher shortages reported internationally is to offer scholarships paired with targeted preparation experiences for high-performing STEM majors and professionals to become K-12 teachers. In the study reported in this paper, the influence of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program on the recruitment…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Mathematics Teachers, Scholarships
Colorado Department of Education, 2024
This report details the activities of the Educator Recruitment and Retention Financial Assistance Program (ERR Program) created pursuant to Senate Bill 21-185 (C.R.S. 22-60.3-201 et seq.). Developed in response to persistent educator shortages across the state, the ERR Program removes or reduces a potential barrier to entry into education: the…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Shortage, State Aid
Joseph Brobst; Elizabeth Litzler; Sura Alqudah; Jill Davishahl; Andrew G. Klein – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
The Engaged Engineering Program (EEP) project at ABC University is a five-year Track 2 NSF S-STEM that responds to challenges in recruiting and retaining academically talented, low-socioeconomic status students from diverse backgrounds into undergraduate engineering programs. The EEP project has successfully recruited four cohorts of Scholars and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Academic Persistence, Student Diversity
Vanessa Harwood; Lisa Macaruso; Gabriela Zuccolo; Alexa Tabile; Nina Schiarizzi-Tobin; Katharine Musella – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2025
Purpose: An increasing number of autistic students are pursuing higher education to enhance career opportunities, achieve personal growth, and increase independence. Nonetheless, many encounter difficulties in transitioning to and thriving in this environment, despite the support offered by universities. Here, we review the preliminary data from a…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, College Freshmen, Inclusion
Lee-Paul, Shawna N. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2023
Student retention and lack of encouragement are post-secondary institutional barriers that play a critical part in why African Americans are represented in small numbers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) (National Science Foundation, 2017). Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have always promoted a supportive…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Black Colleges, Communities of Practice, African American Students
Slaughter, Jamel; Hoefer, Richard – Journal of Social Work Education, 2019
In 2015, 81% of counties in Texas were designated as full or partial Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas. To address this problem, we worked with a community-based association of mental health practitioners, using the social theory of career selection, to explore factors that influence students to join the mental health field. Our goal was…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Mental Health, Allied Health Personnel, Supply and Demand
Mulhern, Christine; Hyde, Kelly; Morales, Sam; Anderson, Drew M.; Phillips, Brian; Huguet, Alice – RAND Corporation, 2023
Community colleges enroll a diverse set of students who often face challenges meeting their basic needs. This report describes the potential benefits and costs of one low-cost and relatively light-touch tool that colleges might use to increase students' access to basic needs assistance. The authors focus on the Findhelp platform, which is modeled…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Implementation, Program Costs, Program Effectiveness
Maggie Cinto – ProQuest LLC, 2024
First-generation college students' degree attainment is far below their continuing generation peers (Whitely et al., 2018). This study aims to offer institutions of higher education better insight into how to provide support to be more effective in retaining first-generation college students. This explanatory sequential mixed methods study…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Self Efficacy, Student Needs, Academic Persistence
Maya-Jariego, Isidro; Holgado, Daniel; González-Tinoco, Elena; Castaño-Muñoz, Jonatan; Punie, Yves – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Participants in massive open online courses show a wide variety of motivations. This has been studied with the elaboration of classifications of the users according to their behavior throughout the course. In this study, we aimed to classify the participants in the MOOCs according to the initial motivations and intentions, before long interaction…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Student Motivation, Intention
Alshehri, Sami M. – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how undergraduate math students perceive their learning in an online learning environment. A review of the literature revealed a need for additional qualitative research on the perceptions of students in the online learning environment. The specific elements of interest were technology,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Kirsty McIntyre; Jennifer O’Neill – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
Successful student transition into higher education is fundamental for student retention and future success. We have previously adapted a freely available online induction course to meet the needs of incoming Medicine (MBChB) students. This case study outlines the process of further developing this course in response to student feedback and…
Descriptors: Medical Students, College Freshmen, School Orientation, Program Effectiveness
Stewart, Glen – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This article reports on an intervention related to L2 learner well-being based on Oxford's (2016) EMPATHICS theoretical framework. The intervention was conducted at a women's university in Tokyo in three of the researcher's own first-year, compulsory, four-skills English-language classes. Forty-six learners agreed to take part in the study. To…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Well Being, Intervention, Single Sex Colleges
