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Shuhui Fan; Jeremy R. Goshorn; David Gosling – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2025
Premature termination is a prevalent challenge faced by counsellors-in-training. To explore the experience of counsellors-in-training with premature termination of clients, this qualitative study used a transcendental phenomenological approach and recruited eight counsellors-in-training from a medium-size university in the southeastern United…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Student Experience, Program Termination, Health Services
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Stearns, Shep; McKee, Katherine E.; Dole, John M.; Bruce, Jackie – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2022
In the present study, we analyzed the narratives embedded in the undergraduate personal statements of 40 nontraditional students--ages 25 years and older--accepted to an undergraduate degree program in agriculture and life sciences. Although widely available to universities, personal statements have been overlooked in the literature of…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Agricultural Education, Undergraduate Students, Biological Sciences
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Barquero-Ruiz, Carmen; Morales-Belando, María T.; Arias-Estero, José L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2021
Young players report that they dropout of organized football due to excessive emphasis on technical execution, low success, and the lack of autonomy and motivation experienced by players during training sessions. Purpose: To determine whether a TGfU intervention during a youth football program led players to improve in variables related to…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Dropouts, Intervention
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Jamil, Muhammad; Iqbal, Zafar – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2020
The number of students being enrolled in distance learning institutes is huge, which is a token of success for this mode of education. But literature showed that many students could not complete their degrees due to various reasons. Some of the reasons are common but can vary in different regions according to resources available and socio-economic…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Case Studies, Student Attitudes, Graduation Rate
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Ferguson, Rebecca; Clow, Doug – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are being used across the world to provide millions of learners with access to education. Many who begin these courses complete them successfully, or to their own satisfaction, but the high numbers who do not finish remain a subject of concern. In 2013, a team from Stanford University analyzed engagement…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Access to Education, Learner Engagement, Constructivism (Learning)
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Loyens, Sofie M. M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P.; Schmidt, Henk G. – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
This study investigated the impact of students' conceptions of constructivist learning activities on academic achievement and drop-out. Although constructivism represents an influential view of learning, studies investigating how students conceptualize this perspective have not been conducted before. A structural equation modelling approach was…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Learning Activities, Constructivism (Learning), Academic Achievement