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Ryan J. Milcarek; Samantha R. Brunhaver; Thien Ta; Cody D. Jenkins; Gary Lichtenstein; Karl A. Smith – Advances in Engineering Education, 2025
Certain introductory engineering courses have been termed gateway courses, due to high failure rates resulting in many students leaving engineering altogether. In one such course, thermodynamics, instructors intentionally formed peer-led study groups (PLSGs) with an undergraduate teaching aide (UGTA) playing a supportive facilitator role instead…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Thermodynamics, Peer Teaching, Communities of Practice
Savaglio, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a mentoring program on self-efficacy beliefs. High-risk undergraduate students at Arizona State University majoring in Public Health and other closely-related fields represent this study's sample. Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory guides this study's theoretical framework. This study used a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Public Health, At Risk Students, Pretests Posttests
Kilgore, Wendy; Wilson, Jacob I. – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2017
The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) periodically undertakes research projects to keep themselves and the higher-education community in general, informed about current and emerging institutional practices. College completion rates, and how to improve them, have been in the forefront of the higher…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Kober, Nancy Ed. – Center on Education Policy, 2007
Since 2002, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) has been studying state high school exit examinations--tests that students must pass to receive a high school diploma. Each year, a national report has been published with findings about the 26 states that have or will soon implement exit exams. In addition, occasional reports have been published…
Descriptors: High Schools, Limited English Speaking, Exit Examinations, Case Studies