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Boretz, Elizabeth – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2012
In this descriptive study, the use of a midsemester Success Workshop is evaluated within the context of the persistence and motivation of students placed on academic probation in a state university between 2005 and 2010. Elements of the Success Workshop are described. The self-assessments, workshop evaluation results, and other institutional data…
Descriptors: Research Universities, At Risk Students, Academic Probation, Academic Persistence
Ahmed, Jashim Uddin; Chowdhury, Md. Humayun Kabir; Rahman, Sheehan; Talukder, A. K. M. Mominul Haque – Research in Education, 2014
This study examines the factors contributing to academic probation in university settings and highlights the problems that students encounter in higher education institutions in Bangladesh. The study focused on students facing academic probation on two private universities in Bangladesh and analyzed students' response with respect to nine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Probation, Higher Education, Universities
Smith, Jan – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
This article concerns itself with how academic identities may come to be formed. Taking a longitudinal approach, stories of the experiences of probationary lecturers have been gathered and analysed, to outline an emergent typology of academic socialisation. Whilst the stories are unique to individuals, and the broader context of their experience…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Identification
Reese, Ruth Norrine Ryida Re – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is a distressing dilemma in higher education concerning the increase in student attrition rates (Angelino, Williams, & Natvig, 2007; Hagedorn, 2006; Kramer, 2007; Lau, 2003, Seidman, 2005; Tinto, 2006). The seminal query of this study asks what higher education institutions are doing to effectively retain these students and secure…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, School Holding Power, Instructional Leadership, Academic Advising
Viesca, Kara Mitchell; Torres, Aubrey Scheopner; Barnatt, Joan; Piazza, Peter – Berkeley Review of Education, 2013
To understand how dominant messages about race and effective pedagogy impact teacher beliefs and practice, this study employs critical race theory (CRT) in a case study analysis of Rebecca Rosenberg, a mid-career entrant into the teaching profession who was terminated from her first job before the end of her district's probationary period. Despite…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Race, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices
Schwebel, David C.; Walburn, Nancy C.; Klyce, Katherine; Jerrolds, Kevin L. – NACADA Journal, 2012
Previous research on advising outreach, including intrusive or proactive advising, suggests required advising improves contact frequency, student retention, and academic achievement, especially for students on probation. We show results of a 4-year randomized trial of 501 students at an urban state university. One half the cohort received advising…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Outreach Programs, Academic Advising
Jusoh, Ruzina binti – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study focuses on new teachers' job satisfaction and their challenges and experiences during their probationary period. This research concentrated on how their challenges and experiences affected their choice to leave the profession. Basic Interpretive Qualitative method was utilized to explore and understand new teachers' challenges and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Persistence
Samuels, Christina A. – Education Week, 2011
A newly signed law in Georgia that gives the governor the power to remove school board members in a district that does not have full accreditation is bringing fresh scrutiny to the role of AdvancED, a private agency that accredits schools in that state and 48 others. The target of the new law, signed by Gov. Nathan Deal, is the 48,000-student…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Educational Change, Boards of Education
Protheroe, Mervyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
The 10 articles in this 7th volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the 2011 ATLAANZ (Association of Tertiary Learning Advisors Aotearoa/New Zealand) conference. In Chapter 1, Cath Fraser and Pam Simpson ("Offshore-onshore: How international students' expectations of the New Zealand academic environment compare to their lived…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Comparative Analysis
The Enhancement Seminar Model as a Strategy to Promote Diversity and Student Success in MSW Programs
Watson, Larry D.; Rycraft, Joan R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2010
This study evaluates the effectiveness of an enhancement program by examining a cohort of 57 students admitted on probationary status to an MSW program in 2002 and required to participate in the enhancement program. The demographics for students admitted on probation demonstrate that the program is effective in increasing the diversity of the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Academic Probation
Andrews, James G. – Academe, 2009
A number of U.S. institutions of higher education are considering multiyear extensions of the widely accepted seven-year maximum probationary period for all tenure-track faculty. Such a substantial extension is to be distinguished from, and exists in addition to, the ad hoc short-term extensions that many institutions may now grant to individual…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, Colleges, Standards
Weiss, Michael; Brock, Thomas; Sommo, Colleen; Rudd, Timothy; Turner, Mary Clair – MDRC, 2011
Community colleges across the United States face a difficult challenge. On the one hand, they are "open access" institutions, with a mission to serve students from all backgrounds and at varying levels of college readiness. On the other hand, they must uphold high academic standards in order to maintain accreditation and prepare students…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Test Wiseness, College Students, Community Colleges
Driscoll, Richard; Holt, Bruce – Online Submission, 2012
This study was undertaken to replicate prior findings in which a test-anxiety control training produced substantial test gains among students on academic probation. Twelve first semester students with marginal achievement were identified, screened for test anxiety, and found to have substantially higher anxiety than other students. Ten of the…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, School Holding Power, Test Anxiety, Academic Persistence
Noel-Levitz, Inc, 2011
To assist campuses with accurately forecasting student retention, and to help with increasing it, this report identifies early indicators of students' progress toward completing a degree and establishes benchmarks that campuses can use to evaluate their performance. The report is based on a Web-based survey of college and university officials in…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Private Colleges
Glasser, Leah Blatt – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
In the author's role as an academic dean, she frequently meets with students on probation who have not yet learned how to fail and are consequently paralyzed academically. One of the most pivotal skills for a student who wishes to succeed in the academic arena is the ability to fail well. "Good failing" requires the strength to make use of a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Probation, Deans, Academic Failure