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Nguyen, Celeste Fowles – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2013
This research examines the influence of college students' electronic portfolios (i.e., ePortfolios) on learning, identity, and assessment. The study creates a narrative of students' experiences with ePortfolios that integrates critical hermeneutic theory. Findings demonstrate the diverse experiences of research participants who used ePortfolios…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Influences, Student Experience
Johnson-Ahorlu, Robin N.; Alvarez, Cynthia L.; Hurtado, Sylvia – Journal of College Admission, 2013
Nationally, state funding to higher education has significantly decreased. Ironically, the trend of state divestment in higher education coincides with federal and state policies geared toward increasing degree completion rates. Through an analysis of qualitative data gathered at California higher education institutions, this paper highlights how…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Higher Education, Barriers, Educational Finance
Gehrke, Sean – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
In this study the differences in ecumenical worldview development are examined by race for 3,300 college students from 135 institutions. Results indicate that all students exhibited significant growth through college in ecumenical worldview, and students of color (Black, Asian, and Latino students) exhibited significantly higher levels of…
Descriptors: World Views, College Students, Individual Differences, Racial Differences
Daly, Donna M.; Baker, Suzanne; Williams, Stephen J. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
Educators and student affairs professionals are responding to the call for internationalizing education to keep pace with social, political, and economic globalization. This article provides a qualitative description of the transformation and globalization of an undergraduate college. Successful implementation of a college-wide international…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Health Education, Global Education, Study Abroad
Cantu, Laura Beatriz – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation closely examines the experience of foster youth attending California community colleges and how campuses are responding to their educational needs. Foster youth have the least successful educational outcomes of any population of young Americans. They also represent one of the most vulnerable and academically at-risk populations…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Students, Foster Care, Student Needs
Latiner Raby, Rosalind, Ed.; Valeau, Edward J., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016
This book brings together distinguished scholars, community college practitioners, and emerging leaders to expand upon existing theories, provide reflection on practice, and demonstrate the dynamic nature of community college internationalization. There is a special challenge for United States community colleges to move from selected international…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Global Approach, Advocacy, College Faculty
Hayes, Cleveland; Montes, Adonay; Schroeder, Laurie – Gender and Education, 2013
In this study, the pedagogies of the home used by Latinos as they attend schools in the USA are highlighted. We hope to use the stories of Arturo and Ruben, successful Latinos, as a means to show that Latinos are developing strategies that can be shared through the telling of their stories and to claim the value of voicing the difficult realities…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Hispanic Americans, Social Attitudes, Critical Theory
Levi, Daniel; Kocher, Sara – Environment and Behavior, 2013
Tourism at historic religious sites requires balancing the needs of historic preservation, the tourist experience, and community use of the site. The sacredness of these places is defined by the behaviors that occur there, the experience of users and visitors, and the meanings associated with the place by various groups. This research examines the…
Descriptors: Tourism, Buddhism, Beliefs, Cultural Maintenance
Lopez, Eddie S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With an active war ongoing for nearly thirteen years, the nation has been experiencing hundreds of thousands of returning solders as a result of the military drawdown of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The intent of this research study was to understand the effectiveness of university programs, services, and practices in retaining student…
Descriptors: Veterans, Higher Education, College Students, College Bound Students
Anumba, Ethel – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2015
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that facilitated college persistence and retention among African American males who were enrolled in an undergraduate program at two four-year public universities in Southern California. This research addressed the growing problem of college attrition among Black males by conducting an in-depth…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Malnarich, Gillies; Pettitt, Maureen A.; Mino, Jack J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2014
This article reports on findings from a mixed-methods validation study of the "Online Survey of Students' Experiences of Learning in Learning Communities". In the quantitative part of the study, we found strong correlations among survey items related to faculty behaviors, student behaviors, and critical thinking. Factor analysis yielded…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Student Surveys, Validity, Mixed Methods Research
Lad, Kaetlyn; Braganza, Desiree – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2013
This article describes the experiences of school personnel working with undocumented immigrants in public schools and the opinions and attitudes of school personnel. The resulting propositions are: (1) Undocumented
students and their parents live with a great deal of psychological stress on a daily basis; (2) Undocumented students face multiple…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Undocumented Immigrants, School Personnel, Employee Attitudes
Carr, Tracinal S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative evaluation focused on the problem of student attrition at a northern California college, its attendance policy, the policy's impact on previous students' decisions to persist in school, and on administrators' attempts to increase retention. The purpose for this study was to evaluate the participants' perceptions about their…
Descriptors: College Attendance, School Policy, Educational Policy, Student Attrition
Zhai, Lijuan – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
This article reports the development and validation of a survey instrument to measure community college students' satisfaction with their educational experiences. The initial survey included 95 questions addressing community college student experiences. Data were collected from 558 community college students during spring of 2001. An exploratory…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement
Erlich, Richard J.; Russ-Eft, Darlene F. – NACADA Journal, 2013
We investigated whether the social cognitive theory constructs of self-efficacy and self-regulated learning apply to academic advising for measuring student learning outcomes. Community college students (N = 120) participated in an individual academic-advising session. We assessed students' post-intervention self-efficacy in academic planning and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Social Cognition, Epistemology, Self Efficacy