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Voices from Spanish Students with Disabilities: Willpower and Effort to Survive University
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Moriña, Anabel; Molina, Víctor M.; Cortés-Vega, M. Dolores – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2018
This article analyses the university experiences of 44 students with disabilities. The voices of Spanish students describe the reasons that lead them to choose a given university degree, their transition in the university, the perception they have of themselves as students and how they evaluate their academic results. This study was done with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Disabilities, Academic Persistence
Validating Common Measures of Self-Efficacy and Career Attitudes within Informal Health Education for Middle and High School Students
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Peterman, Karen; Withy, Kelley; Boulay, Rachel – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
A common challenge in the evaluation of K-12 science education is identifying valid scales that are an appropriate fit for both a student's age and the educational outcomes of interest. Though many new scales have been validated in recent years, there is much to learn about the appropriate educational contexts and audiences for these measures.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Career Choice, Vocational Interests, Correlation
Encouraged or Weeded Out: Perspectives of Students of Color in the STEM Disciplines on Faculty Interactions
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McCoy, Dorian L.; Luedke, Courtney L.; Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
For this multisite qualitative case study, framed in Bourdieu's social reproduction theory, we examined mentoring experiences among Students of Color majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines at both a predominantly White institution and a historically Black institution. Findings revealed that faculty served…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mentors, Minority Group Students, STEM Education
The Lived Experience of Foster Youth as Community-College Students
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Anderson, Kristen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine what life is like for foster youth pursuing postsecondary education. At a time when few foster youth are pursuing and completing higher education, this study attempted to gain an understanding from foster youth about 1) the reason(s) for their success in pursuing postsecondary education, 2) how they were…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Foster Care, Educational Experience
Career and Program Choice of Students of Color in Student Affairs Programs
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Linder, Chris; Simmons, Cara Winston – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
Student affairs educators have long advocated increasing the racial diversity of student affairs. To improve the recruitment of Students of Color to student affairs, we engaged critical race methodology to examine career and graduate program choice of 29 students of Color in 26 graduate programs. Participants chose careers in student affairs…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Career Choice, African American Students, Student Recruitment
"I Learned to Accept Every Part of Myself": The Transformative Impact of a Theatre-Based Sexual Health and HIV Prevention Programme
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Grewe, Mary E.; Taboada, Arianna; Dennis, Alexis; Chen, Elizabeth; Stein, Kathryn; Watson, Sable; Barrington, Clare; Lightfoot, Alexandra F. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
Theatre-based interventions have been used in health promotion with young people to address HIV and sexual health. In this study, we explored the experience of undergraduate student performers participating in a theatre-based HIV prevention and sexual health education intervention for high school students in the USA. Undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexuality, Health Promotion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases