During the 2018-19 school year, only 55 ELL students out of 651 graduated in a Central Florida district. The problem addressed in this study was how well the ESOL endorsement courses prepared teachers to teach ELL students and how this endorsement influenced teacher-student relationships for success in higher education. The purpose of this…

Faculty members in Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University have been reimagining the undergraduate and graduate teacher preparation programs to serve better PreK-12 students and improve the teaching profession. An important feature of the reimagined teacher preparation model included placing teacher candidates (TCs) on teams…

Despite the growing evidence of informational interventions on college and major choices, we know little about how such light-touch interventions affect the gender gap in STEM majors. Linking survey data to administrative records of Chinese college applicants, we conducted a large-scale randomized experiment to examine the STEM gender gap in the…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to discuss and analyze college and career readiness for exceptional students in South Carolina. The overall goal was to determine if there was a significant difference in the outcomes of the exceptional student in the state over a three year timespan using two data points (2016-2017 and 2018-2019) and…

Non-traditional Health Science Education graduate students may not feel a sense of connectedness with their teachers in their online courses, leading to decreased engagement and persistence was the problem this qualitative descriptive study addressed. The purpose of this study was to describe Health Science Education graduate student perceptions…

The lower graduation rates of Black female students are a concern that colleges and universities needs to further explore. This study sought to hear from Black female students about their college experiences to further investigate causes and find solutions to the lower graduation rates of Black female students. Participants in Cycle 1 consisted of…

The purpose of this study was to determine students' perspectives of the Academic Assistant (AA) Model for Online Instructional Programs. The AA model was developed by a for-profit organization. The organization serves as a service provider of instructional support services to colleges and universities. The study was comprised of a sample…

Relying upon the work of a nonprofit, Food Security for America, this snapshot report explores how internships with undergraduate and graduate students offer opportunities to establish trust and understanding between university partners and community partners, particularly at the start of a relationship or project. The goal of this piece is to…

Background: Graduate engineering students are required to write for academic audiences; however, very few engineering programs teach engineering academic writing, and similarly, little research has been conducted on graduate engineering student writing. Purpose/Hypothesis: The purposes of this study were to investigate the argumentation patterns…

In this article, we examine graduate attributes as a conceptual framework. We theorise these are rooted in the neoliberalisation of the university and the increasing importance of employability as a marker for quality university teaching. Graduate attributes vary across institutions but often include 'foundational' as well as 'non-foundational'…

Decades of research have estimated the effect of entering a community college on bachelor's degree attainment. In this study, we examined the influence of methodological choices, including sample restrictions and identification strategies, on estimated effects from studies published between 1970 and 2017. After systematically reviewing the…

Threshold concepts are fundamental to a discipline and, once understood, transform students' understanding and perception of the subject. Despite the value of threshold concepts as a learning "portal" for heuristic purposes, there is limited empirical evidence of threshold crossing or achieving mastery. As a threshold concept, biological…

This paper examines how interpreting quality is evaluated by peer students in an English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting class. In the study, 18 students received training on how to evaluate interpreting based on three quality components: accuracy, presentation and target language quality. Then, they were asked to evaluate three translation…

This article presents the results of an investigation into information-seeking behaviour of trainee translators, observed during translation of a legal text from English into Polish. The translator's workspace has significantly changed over the last twenty years. Now translators have at their disposal not only traditional printed publications but…

In this case study of a peer mentoring program developed for first-year education doctoral (Ed.D.) students, we sought to understand how participants' experiences in the program might yield understanding about the mentoring process. Study participants included 11 mentees and 4 mentors. Interview and focus group data were analyzed through the…