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Shen, Yue – ProQuest LLC, 2017
International student enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased and diversified over the past decade. The unique needs and challenges international students face in pursuing higher education in the U.S. need a systematic investigation. Previous research literature has identified cultural diversity as one main challenge against…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Higher Education, Educational Experience, College Students
Schuster, Maximilian Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explores how first-year students experience, perceive, and make sense of institutional culture in higher education during the transition from high school to college. Examining institutional culture during the first year remains relevant because nearly 25% of all students who depart higher education do so within their first year (Nalbone…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Culture, Student Experience, Student Attitudes
Fontenot, Christopher S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological study explored student perceptions regarding their preparation for transition into post-secondary programs of study. The researcher used interpretation to objectively step back from the study and develop a broader meaning of participants' experiences of the central phenomenon (Creswell, 2017). The researcher used individual…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Parochial Schools, Phenomenology, Student Attitudes
Cleland, Nicole R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The community college (CCcc) setting has become increasingly important in education; yet, graduation rates are low (20%) compared 4-year colleges (69%). Researchers have focused on factors that predict college students' retention and graduation. Measures of students' academic, social, and personal-emotional adjustment to colleges have been found…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Nontraditional Students, Student Adjustment
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Park, Jungyeol – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study examines international students' experiences of othering on their campuses. To achieve this goal, a case of a South Korean international student's experiences was addressed from postcolonial perspectives. In particular, this study asks: "What does a Korean international student's experiences of othering look like?" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, Educational Experience, College Students
Boeding, Brooke S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to identify the ways in which veterans with disabilities navigate the process of transition from their lives as members of the military community to participants in the community college. This study analyzed the subset of veterans with disabilities in a community college to identify the support structures and services…
Descriptors: Veterans, Disabilities, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Smith, Jolan M.; Kataoka, Sheryl H.; Segovi, Francisco R.; Osuna, Anthony; Arriaga, Ivette; Garcia, Consuelo D.; Lee, Hyon Soo; Chiappe, Jenny C.; Juarez, Joseph L.; Kasari, Connie; Hassrick, Elizabeth McGhee; Jones, Felica; Mandell, David S.; Stahmer, Aubyn C.; Mundy, Peter C.; Smith, Tristram; Linares, Deborah E. – Multiple Voices: Disability, Race, and Language Intersections in Special Education, 2021
Few studies use a strengths-based perspective to identify strategies that support K-12 school transitions for historically minoritized families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the present study, university researchers partnered with community stakeholders (e.g., disability advocates, community health organizations, etc.) in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Toste, Jessica R.; Raley, Sheida K.; Gross Toews, Samantha; Shogren, Karrie A.; Coelho, Gabriela – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
Students with disabilities experience pronounced inequities in the education system, which have been compounded by risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study sought to understand the experiences of students with disabilities and the strengths that facilitated their wellbeing during this period of adversity. In summer 2020,…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Individual Power, Personal Autonomy, Self Advocacy
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Camfield, Eileen Kogl; Schiller, NaTasha R.; Land, Kirkwood M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
When a global pandemic hits during a longitudinal study of biology student success, researchers can unearth rich information about student resilience. By sharing case studies from two demographically different midsized 4-year institutions, this article illustrates the aspects of student self-efficacy beliefs that were undercut by the shift to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Self Efficacy, STEM Education
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Matsunaga, Kaoru; Barnes, Melissa Marie; Saito, Eisuke – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
There has been increasing attention given to the notion that international education consists of non-linear and multi-directional transmissive exchanges between existing institutional academic conditions and international students. Despite the role of international students' agency being paramount, there is a dearth of research on the…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
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Arnett, Thomas – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2021
For many students, conforming to the traditional K-12 education system is not always compatible with their life circumstances. Map Academy in Plymouth, Massachusetts, now in its second year of operation, aims to provide an education that adapts to the needs and interests of its students while maintaining high expectations. This profile of Map…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Needs, Expectation, Educational Practices
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Ortiz, Nickolaus A.; Morton, Terrell R.; Miles, Monica L.; Roby, ReAnna S. – Journal of Negro Education, 2019
Drawing from the experiences of 14 Black students participating in a structured undergraduate research program at either an historically Black university or a predominantly White institution, the authors conducted a secondary data analysis on interview and journal prompt data using Yosso's community cultural wealth framework to identify sources of…
Descriptors: African American Students, STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Black Colleges
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Makarova, Elena; 't Gilde, Judith; Birman, Dina – Intercultural Education, 2019
The present study is embedded in the contextual approach of acculturation research. It examines teachers' attitudes and behaviors, teachers' expectations as well as their teaching practices as risk and resource factors in minority students' school adjustment. The study applies the method of content analysis and uses a deductively developed and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Minority Group Students, Student Adjustment, Teacher Attitudes
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Lin, Xiaobing; Liu, Wei – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2019
In the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the number of Chinese international students studying overseas. There has also been a corresponding increase in the media stories about their cross-cultural difficulties. Reported in this study is a reflective inquiry into my work as an international student advisor with a large number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Intercultural Communication, Academic Advising
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Atkinson, Gemma; Rowley, Janet – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2019
This study explores the views of children and young people who have experienced school exclusion and placement in alternative educational provision regarding which factors supported their reintegration into mainstream schools. Nine primary and secondary pupils participated, aged between 10-16 years. The study uses Q methodology and is emancipatory…
Descriptors: Reentry Students, Special Schools, Mainstreaming, Elementary School Students
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