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Findley, Sam P. | Contributing factors to academic success among student Veterans | | Student veteran; Student success; Veteran | |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Outreach and identity development: New perspectives on college student persistence | College student persistence continues to pose challenges for higher education institutions, despite over 40 years of research. Although persistence is studied from many different angles, the majority of studies examining the causes of and cures for students' departure from college reflect the import... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | The impact of state appropriations and grants on access to higher education and outmigration | Education policymakers at all levels of government have long been interested in finding ways to entice more students to go to college. This goal has been driven by the belief that, as people acquire more education, they not only reap personal benefits from their investment in education, but they als... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Gender disparity in engineering: results and analysis from school counselors survey and national vignette | In an earlier paper by our group [1] we presented statistical analysis based on 30 years of ACT data illustrating gender disparity in engineering majors and career choices. Obtained results also revealed the presence of a large number of students who are interested in engineering but who may not be ... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Gardner Michael K.; Woltz, Dan J. | Representation of memory for order of mental operations in cognitive tasks | Recent research shows that people learning a cognitive task acquire a memory for the order of operations applied, independent of the data to which those operations were applied. We designed two experiments to show how this sequence memory is represented. Experiment 1 compared predictions based on... | Cognitive skills; Operation sequences; Sequential skills | 2002 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | Preparing for the silver tsunami: the demand for higher education among older adults | (Over the next decade, Baby Boomers will be reaching retirement age in large numbers and the U.S. will be undergoing one of the most significant demographic shifts in its history. This demographic shift has important implications for the role of higher education as a provider of lifelong learning an... | | 2010 |
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Johnston, Susan S. | Beginning augmentative communication systems | To be unable to produce communicative behavior that can be understood by others represents one of the most frustrating experiences imaginable. Communicating through a communication board or with gestures lessens this frustration but does not eliminate it. Since 1975, remarkable advances have been ma... | Intervention; Challenging behavior; Symbols | 1992 |
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Kleinschmidt, Julia J.; Grosshans, Onie; Caserta, Michael; Saffel-Shrier, Susan; Tuohig, Gail | Intervening in midlife for optimal retirement: a guide for health educators | Factors contributing to successful retirement deserve increased attention given the rapid growth of the aging population. Antecedent to successful retirement is successful aging. The middle aged population is an opportune target for health promotion and health education interventions as this group... | Retirement; Aging Process;Education Interventions; Health Promotion | 1991-10 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Decision making in videotaped selection interviews: age and position effects retested | This study was designed to test the effects of a candidate's age and the effect of the type of position under consideration on candidate ratings as assessed from a videotaped interview simulation. To investigate the effect of these variables, a 2 x 2 factorial design was used. The independent varia... | | 1985 |
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Bergerson, Amy A. | Will work for a college education: an analysis of the role employment plays in the experiences of first-year college students | College students across the United States struggle with the challenges of balancing work and school. In 2005, 29.5% of full-time students worked over 20 hours a week while attending college, with 70.1% of their part-time counterparts in the workplace for 20 or more hours each week (NCES, 2005). Give... | Social class; Income; Hierarchy | 2007 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Gender-related biases in admission decisions | The competitive admission process for educational programs in health sciences usually begins with a screening phase. Raters, who are often the same people who later interview the applicants, screen candidates based on information on their application forms. Only the applicants who survive the scree... | Attractiveness; Attributions; Evaluation | 1993 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | Tuition discounting for revenue management | Over the past decade, institutionally-funded financial aid (or "tuition discounts") have been the fastest-growing item within most public four-year college and university operating budgets. One explanation for this trend is due to the changing structure of public colleges' revenue streams, as tuitio... | | 2010 |
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Johnston, Susan S. | Coordinating preservice and in-service training of early interventionists to serve preschoolers who engage in challenging behavior | This chapter focuses on the need to coordinate and improve preservice and in-service training (including technical assistance) for professionals who serve individuals and family members who live or work with young children who engage in challenging behavior. Positive behavioral support: includin... | Behavior problems; Proactive strategies; Intervention strategies | 1996 |
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Pounder, Diana G. | Organizational orientation in public and private elementary schools | In this study, we investigated the relationship between organizational value orientation and tow variables, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, among teachers from private and public elementary schools. | Organizational commitment; Job satisfaction; Value orientation | 1993 |
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Pounder, Diana G.; Bergerson, Amy A. | Job desirability of the university professorate in the field of educational leadership | This survey research study uses job choice theory to assess recent educational leadership doctoral graduates' perceptions of the desirability of the educational administration professorate. Results reveal attractive and unattractive aspects of professorial work as well as those job attributes that ... | Educational administration; Professorial work | 2004 |
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Johnson, Bob L. | Logic of school restructuring: a conceptual analysis | Perusal of the educational literature since 1983 reveals the flood of attention given to reform in this decade. Fueled by reports much like A Nation at Risk and the efforts of personalities such as former Secretary of Education William Bennett, the rhetoric of reform abounds. In state houses across ... | Education reform; Educational goals | 1990 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Instructional costs per student credit hour: differences by level of instruction | The variation of unit costs by level of instruction, on either a per-student or per-student-credit-hour basis, is a traditional issue in the economics and finance of higher education. Funding formulas, for either requesting or allocating funds, often include recognition of an institution's effort by... | | 1989 |
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Johnston, Susan S. | Making the most of single-switch technology: a primer | A stroll through any local toy store reveals that children without disabilities embark on their foray into the use of single switch technology when they are very young. A wide variety of commercially available toys are activated by single switches. For example, PLAYSKOOL's Talking Mr. Potato Head is... | Toys; Single switch; Assistive technology; Children; Disabilities | 2003 |
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Johnston, Susan S. | 20 ways to maximize the use of single switch technology with students with severe disabilites | Students with severe physical and/or cognitive disabilities may find it very difficult to engage in activities in their environment. Single switch technology can provide the means for adapting activities to meet student's diverse needs (Brett, 1995). Single switches can be used as tools for promoti... | Single switch; Severe disabilities; Assistive technology; Disabled students | 2006 |
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Brinkman, Paul T. | Financial impact of part-time enrollments on two-year colleges: a marginal cost perspective | The number of part-time students attending public two-year colleges increased rapidly during the 1970s. By the end of the decade, aggregate part-time enrollment constituted about 63 percent of total headcount enrollment at those institutions. Concern has been expressed about the financial implicatop... | Students; Part-time; Full-time; Colleges; Costs | 1985 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | What matters in student loan default: a review of the research literature | Federal higher education policy has shifted over the past few decades from grants to loans as the primary means for providing access to postsecondary education for low and moderate-income families. With this shift, policy makers have begun tracking student loan default rates as a key indicator of th... | | 2009 |
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Hillman, Nicholas W | The ethical dimensions of awarding financial aid | Abstract In countries charging tuition fees, and those that are considering adopting tuition fee policies, recent economic conditions are making education less affordable and accessible for students (Johnstone & Marcucci, 2010; Schwarzenberger & Opheim, 2009). To combat these challenges, nations, ... | | 2011 |
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Hawken, Leanne Sue | Using DIBELS to improve reading outcomes | Students' reading trajectories (i.e., their general pattern of reading progress) are established early and are relatively stable over time. For example, students who are poor readers in first grade are likely (i.e., 88%) to be poor readers in fourth-grade. Prevention is key to improving reading out... | | 2004 |
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Johnson, Bob L. | Where have all the flowers gone? reconnecting leadership preparation with the field of organization theory | Given the importance of organization theory to our field and the increased absence of a substantive organizational perspective in our dialogue, this essay argues that it is time to revisit how we conceptualize and package the organization theory component of our leadership preparation programs. A j... | Organization theory; Leadership preparation | 2004 |
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Gardner Michael K. | Word-frequency effect in lexical decision: finding a frequency-based component | Subjects making lexical decisions are reliably faster in responding to high-frequency words than to low-frequency words. This is known as the word frequency effect. We wished to demonstrate that some portion of this effect was due to frequency differences between words rather than to other dimensio... | Stimulus; Interaction; Variance | 1987 |
