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Alecia R. Matthews – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study was designed to add to educators' understanding of veteran student success and offer ways to reframe how they measure veteran student success. Currently, university leaders tend to measure veteran student success using traditional metrics such as retention and graduation rates. This study involved examining whether there are…
Descriptors: Veterans, Nontraditional Students, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Forlenza, Samuel T.; Bourassa, Dara – JTRM in Kinesiology, 2017
The amount of older adults is increasing rapidly and the demands of an aging population will need to be met by professionals in many fields, including exercise science. However, many undergraduate students do not want to work with older adults. Therefore, this qualitative study sought to examine the experiences and perceptions of exercise science…
Descriptors: Exercise, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Health Related Fitness
Crowley-Koch, Brian J.; Van Houten, Ron; Lim, Eunyoung – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
Pedestrian safety is a serious concern at busy intersections and pedestrian campuses across the nation. Although crosswalks and signs inform pedestrians where to cross, there is no standard protocol for pedestrians to signal drivers that they wish to use the crosswalks, except to stand in or at the crosswalk. We examined the effects of two…
Descriptors: Pedestrian Traffic, Safety Education, Traffic Safety, Prompting
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Chadwick, Richard W. – Simulation & Gaming, 2011
Harold Guetzkow's guidance of research on foreign policy decision making was driven by a core concern: the avoidance of nuclear war and preservation of peace. He aimed to do this by supporting the creation and distribution of new knowledge through experiments aimed at simulating the processes and conditions hypothesized to influence such…
Descriptors: Research Assistants, International Relations, Foreign Policy, Mentors
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White, Robert D. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2007
The author's tertiary learning journey began as a research assistant reviewing educational literature. Among the mountain of lifelong learning literature, the author could find nothing that explained why people are or are not lifelong learners. Eventually he found the British work of Gorard and Selwyn (2005). Mindful of Osborne's (2002) caution…
Descriptors: Research Assistants, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Masters Degrees
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Settee, Priscilla; Thomas-Prokop, Shelley – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
This paper describes the process of engaging the extended Indigenous community within Saskatoon and the surrounding First Nations communities in what would be a first major research project between Indigenous communities and the University of Saskatchewan. A management committee was established comprised of all the major Saskatoon/Saskatchewan…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Research, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations