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Szoka, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this interpretive, phenomenological study was to explore and understand how millennial nursing students perceived their lived experiences of being active learners in an associate degree program and how it affected student learning outcomes and/or program satisfaction. The research questions guiding this study were based on…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Phenomenology, Nursing Students, Generational Differences
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Bohl, Amanda J.; Haak, Beatriz; Shrestha, Srijana – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2017
The number of nontraditional students enrolled in higher education is rising, but retention of these students is a challenge. This study used a qualitative framework to examine the experiences of nontraditional undergraduate students in a university setting. Nine participants completed open-ended questionnaires, and we transcribed and coded the…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, School Holding Power
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Clark, Langston; Harrison, Louis, Jr.; Bimper, Albert Y. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2015
Purpose: The purposes of this study were to: (a) analyze the insights and experiences of the 1st African American student-athlete (in basketball) at a prominent predominantly White institution in the Deep South as well as the later insights and experiences of his sons at the same university; and (b) to present a counterstory to the dominant…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Activities, African American Students
Clemente, Kathleen Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study is a basic interpretative inquiry studying the experiences of fourteen adult students 45 years of age or older in a multi-generational community college classroom. The study is informed by social constructivism, social constructionism and andragogy. It focused on how students viewed their experiences in the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Andragogy, Community Colleges, Adult Education
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Jones, Chris; Healing, Graham – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article examines the significance of place and location at a time when mobile and networked technologies allow students access from a diversity of contexts. The article reports a cultural probe exercise. Over a 24-hour period, undergraduate students received SMS text messages and recorded answers to a fixed set of prompt questions using a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Handheld Devices, Information Networks
Buenavista, Tracy Lachica – Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2009
Institutions of higher education have been lauded for attempts to diversify the face of the academy by implementing programs and services specifically designed to conduct outreach and recruit "non-traditional" college students. Among those considered non-traditional college students are historically underrepresented Students of Color,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, Income, Tagalog