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Mary E. Wake – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study aimed to expand upon existing research, which discussed student expectations, the relationship between expectations and retention, persistence, and student success, as well as why understanding student expectations is important to supporting student success. This research study explored these concepts from a lens of…
Descriptors: College Students, Age Groups, Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes
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Bien-Gund, Susannah; Elrowmeim, Somia – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2019
In this chapter, the former and current directors of adult education at the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) discuss strategies from their shared process of fostering community, student leadership, and empowerment in AAANY's community-based literacy program. Amid the challenges for learners and the program connected to the 2016…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Adult Education, Student Leadership, Student Empowerment
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Springer, Sarah I.; Moss, Lauren J.; Cinotti, Daniel; Land, Christy W. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2018
This consensual qualitative research (CQR) study explored the group leadership supervisory experiences of (n = 10) school counseling internship students. Findings suggest the importance of fostering group leader advocacy skills and the need to assess students' group leadership supervisory experiences during fieldwork placement. Implications for…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Training, Internship Programs, Counselor Educators
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Kramer, Catherine S.; Wilcox, Kristen C.; Lawson, Hal A. – Preventing School Failure, 2020
This multiple case study examines practices of educators in high schools called "odds-beaters". These schools are exemplary in that they consistently achieve better-than-predicted graduation outcomes among economically disadvantaged, African-American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, and English language learners. Findings from this study revealed…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Social Development