This study examined what employers identified and rated as important and satisfactory skills and competencies during the interviews of community college graduates in North Carolina. A replication of the original study conducted by Baird (2016) in the Northeast region of the United States examined graduates from four-year higher education…

Peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy for improving students' argumentative essay writing in higher education. However, little is known how do differently or similarly bachelor's and master's students perform in their peer feedback activities for essay writing. This study sought to identify the role of education level in students'…

This tool is intended to support state and local education agencies in developing a statistical model for estimating student postsecondary success at the school or district level. The tool guides education agency researchers, analysts, and decisionmakers through options to consider when developing their own model. The resulting model generates an…

A new GMAC [Graduate Management Admission Council] survey snapshot of nearly 1,800 respondents shows that more than half of prospective students believe that admissions exams improve reliability, fairness, and transparency in evaluating graduate business school candidates. The data collected through "mba.com Prospective Students Survey"…

The purpose of this phenomenological narrative study was to explore the contributors to the sense of agency and racial identity for Black male traditional graduates of HBCUs. Interviews with the 10 participants were analyzed in order to glean and understand insights from their lived experiences (Moustakas, 1994). The researcher asked 10…

This study examined the relationship between cumulative participation in high-impact practices (HIP) and post-graduation college outcomes using the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS) dataset. The methodological approach proposed and tested by Leite et al., 2019 incorporated the ability to account for self-selection using propensity score…

Service-learning is an educational innovation in schools and colleges across the United States of America (Billig & Waterman, 2013). Scholars agree that service-learning is defined as a form of experiential learning centered around community service (Celio, Durlak, & Dymnicki, 2011; Fertman, 1994; Shumer, 1994; Shumer & Belbas, 1996).…

Success Boston, a city-wide initiative to boost college persistence and ultimately improve college completion rates for Boston's high school graduates, has one-on-one transition coaching as a core strategy. Transition coaching offers students sustained, proactive, and responsive support in their first two years of college. Specifically, coaches…

The purpose of this study was to understand how adults 65 years and older use Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the barriers and difficulties they experience when using ICT, and how ICT could be improved for older adults. The study aimed to reveal the target population's lived experiences when operating their electronic devices and…

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to understand "What are the lived experiences of online professional graduate students who utilize metacognitive study strategies for course success?". This study used Heidegger's hermeneutic approach to examine metacognitive study strategies in a graduate online master's level course.…

An increasing number of graduate and undergraduate degrees are adding internship requirements to their academic programs. These internship programs are classified as "experiential learning," a term that simultaneously refers to a learning theory and a method of learning. Experiential learning is a broad term that traces its roots to many…

Community colleges expect their employees to promote academic success and propel students to graduation by providing a range of services, including academic advising. Increasingly, advising professionals continue to extoll the benefits of effective academic advising. The problem of the lack of enough trained advisers and information about the…

There had been a lack of research on the relationship between a new graduate Registered Nurses' knowledge, experiences, attitudes, and age bias toward older adults. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was a relationship between new graduate Registered Nurses' knowledge, experiences, attitudes, and age bias toward older…

This qualitative study examined the experiences of graduate students enrolled in online programs that have varying levels of outsourced student services. Specifically, the study examined students' experiences in graduate programs that fully outsourced services, those that outsourced some student services, and those that did not outsource services.…

The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which social, cultural, economic and academic factors contributed to the attrition of graduate students at a historically Black University. This study addressed attrition challenges that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) are confronting. It also addresses the uniqueness of…