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Glazier, Rebecca A. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
More students than ever before are taking online classes, yet higher education is facing an online retention crisis; students are failing and dropping out of online classes at dramatically higher rates than face-to-face classes. Grounded in academic research, original surveys, and experimental studies, "Connecting in the Online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Students, College Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Abdulmajeed A. Alharbi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Two main research problems were addressed in the current study. First, the researcher explored the impact of e-mail prenotification, follow-up reminders and of mixed-mode design on survey response rates in Saudi Arabia among four conditions when applying a 2 (pre-notification: Yes, No) x 2 (Follow-up: E-mail, WhatsApp) between-subjects factorial…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Information Dissemination, Language Usage, Surveys
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Hustedt, Beth; Franklin, Jeff; Tate, Nicole – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
We discuss methods that can improve response rates in large-scale cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Regardless of the specific study topic, sample member population, or method of contact, data collections should be designed with certain core principles in mind: legitimizing the study to prospective participants; presenting study…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Melançon, Jérôme; Goebel, Nancy – College & Research Libraries, 2016
The Personal Librarian for Aboriginal Students (PLAS) program at the University of Alberta (UofA) is a creative outgrowth of the growing Personal Librarian programs in academic libraries, in which a student is partnered with an individual librarian for the academic year. In the case of the UofA's PLAS program, first-year undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cultural Relevance, Librarians, College Freshmen
Brown, Brooke Lambert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The intent of this study was to focus on distance learning students' and advisors' perceptions of distance advising at a large, public university. Specifically, this study addressed four questions: what were the perceived performance gaps between distance learning students and distance learning advisors practice, how distance learning students'…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Academic Advising, Student Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes
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Wolfe, Joanna; Shanmugaraj, Nisha; Sipe, Jaclyn – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
Many communication instructors make allowances for grammatical error in nonnative English speakers' writing, but do businesspeople do the same? We asked 169 businesspeople to comment on three versions of an email with different types of errors. We found that businesspeople do make allowances for errors made by nonnative English speakers,…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Business Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tlhoaele, Malefyane; Suhre, Cor; Hofman, Adriaan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Cooperative learning may improve students' motivation, understanding of course concepts, and academic performance. This study therefore enhanced a cooperative, group-project learning technique with technology resources to determine whether doing so improved students' deep learning and performance. A sample of 118 engineering students, randomly…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Comprehension, Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning