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Mothers Who Are Nontraditional Students: Experience with Performance, Persistence, and College Completion
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Victoria Ujunwa Nnanna – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how mothers who were nontraditional students enrolled in a four-year college described their experiences with performance, persistence, and college degree completion. The theoretical foundation was Tinto's (1975) student departure theory. The two research questions were (1) How do…
Descriptors: Mothers, Nontraditional Students, College Students, Student Experience
Predicting New Jersey High School Proficiency Test Results in Mathematics and Language Arts Using Community Demographic Data
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Lynch, Christopher D. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study examined the relationship between the 2013 New Jersey High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) Language Arts and Mathematics scores and school level data related to family human capital and community social capital found in the extant literature to influence student achievement on high-stakes standardized assessments. School level data…
Descriptors: Prediction, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Achievement, High School Students
Unveiling the Veiled and Veiling the Unveiled: Revealing the Underlying Linguistic Ideologies and Their Impact on Persian Language Loss and Maintenance among Second-Generation Iranian-American College Students
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Ramezanzadeh, Farah S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study adopted an interpretive/qualitative methodology to explore the issues and challenges of developing and maintaining Persian/Farsi as a heritage language in homes and neighborhoods for second-generation Iranian-American youth living in a major US metropolitan area with a sizable concentration of Iranian immigrants. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Neighborhoods, College Students, Immigrants