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Emily Knaphus-Soran; Jessica Baldis; Sonya Cunningham; Donna Llewellyn; Jana Milford; Shelley Pressley; Eve Riskin – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
There is a critical need to broaden access to engineering education in order to build a strong and diverse engineering workforce. However, four-year engineering programs are typically designed for students who are calculus-ready, so many students who wish to study engineering may need additional preparation and time to succeed. The NSF-funded…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Low Income Students, Academic Support Services
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Paula Charbonneau-Gowdy; Caro Galdames – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2024
We are increasingly realizing that technology and its use in learning contexts is not benign. With the advent of more powerful technology tools, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) ones, combined with the historically significant changes that have occurred in education over the last four years, there are more reasons than ever to examine their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, College Students, College Faculty
Zenobia Moorman Garrison – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is a dearth of career intervention literature pertaining to underprepared community college students. This student population has insufficient college coursework preparation (CCCSE, 2016), and often exhibits low career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE), which hampers career decision making ability, career goal setting (Hughes &…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Preparation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Career Education
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Yani, Bridgette; Harding, Ansie; Engelbrecht, Johann – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2019
This paper focuses on the students who are registered in the University of Pretoria's academic development programme, named the Four-year Programme (FYP). The programme was introduced as a gateway for students who are underprepared but have the potential to succeed and then continue their studies into the mainstream science programmes. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Ability, Mathematics Skills, Maturity (Individuals)
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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Paluta, Lauren; Sterling, Karen; Anderson, Carol – Children & Schools, 2018
Using mixed methods, this case study explored outcomes associated with the adoption and implementation of a community schools approach in four Title I schools using the Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement. Trends in school data demonstrate academic achievement improvements in three of the four schools. Absenteeism and the number…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Educationally Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
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Scott, Kimberly A.; Sheridan, Kimberly M.; Clark, Kevin – Learning, Media and Technology, 2015
Despite multiple efforts and considerable funding, historically marginalized groups (e.g., racial minorities and women) continue not to enter or persist in the most lucrative of fields--technology. Understanding the potency of culturally responsive teaching (CRT), some technology-enrichment programs modified CRP principles to establish a…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Technology Education, Educationally Disadvantaged