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Weirick, Chad William – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Students who attend two-year institutions are not always academically prepared for the level of work that is required to be successful. Two-year institutions determine students' readiness for college-level mathematics courses using one of three placement methods. However, few empirical studies have investigated which placement methods are most…
Descriptors: Student Placement, College Mathematics, Two Year College Students, Two Year Colleges
McReynolds, Elizabeth Hannah Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Financial literacy rates across the United States are in general considered low. The research question being addressed is whether or not the typical educational experience at OSU adequately addresses the financial literacy needs of OSU students. Low financial literacy is a serious problem that leads to poor choices regarding significant financial…
Descriptors: State Universities, Graduate Students, Money Management, Literacy
Kellner, Marlene F. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Currently, the same criteria are being used for admissions into nursing programs in one school of nursing in the Northeastern United States. To date there are no statistically significant data to correlate these criteria with successfully entering the nursing profession. Due to the nursing shortage, limited number of seats available in nursing…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Predictor Variables, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Marts, Jennifer Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Service-learning has roots deep in higher education. Community colleges and service-learning have an organic relationship as they both strive to represent and support their local communities. This study implemented propensity score matching to study the impact of service-learning on student outcomes for community college students. Much of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Service Learning, Academic Achievement
Miles, Jessica A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this research was to identify the impact of students' choice of time of day for class activity and their sleep quality on academic performance in multidisciplinary distance education courses at a southeastern U.S. state college. The research addressed the relationship of other individual student characteristics (i.e., age, gender,…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), College Students, Student Characteristics, Sleep
Loftin, Todd Arron – ProQuest LLC, 2012
One of the most significance social challenges facing the United States is increasing the number of students entering postsecondary education and having them persist to degree completion. To accomplish this undertaking, more first-generation college students must matriculate and find academic success. Considerable research exists concerning the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Dual Enrollment, Grade Point Average, Academic Persistence