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An Examination of Eight Factors Influencing Women's Retention in Federal Law Enforcement
(2011-11-30)
Using a sample of 168 sworn female federal law enforcement officers with arrest and firearm authority and in-depth interviews with 20 of these women, this study examines eight factors that may or may not influence women's ...
An Examination of Emerging Adults’ Career Development
(2013-05-31)
Emerging adulthood has been posited as a new developmental phase in which the individual has graduated from adolescence but has not yet accomplished milestones traditionally associated with adulthood (e.g., beginning a ...
Examination of Event Volunteers’ Motivation and Satisfaction Levels Utilizing the Kano Method
(2015-01-07)
Many nonprofit organizations rely heavily on the assistance of volunteers. There exists a supply and demand imbalance making it critical for organizations to guard their volunteer resources (Warner, Newland, & Green, 2011). ...
An Examination of Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Innovative Social Studies Curriculum Materials
(2008-05-15)
Although many studies have been conducted that analyze social studies curricula, there is a need for further investigation into the dynamics of social studies curriculum reform projects. This should facilitate an ...
An Examination of Factors Hypothesized to Moderate Stereotype Threat Effects on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices
(2010-04-09)
The present study examined the moderating effects of racial identity centrality and performance goal orientation on the relationship between stereotype threat and test performance. I also assessed the extent to which ...
An Examination of Factors Influencing African-American Students' Choice to Attend Predominately White Institutions
(2009-07-28)
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence African American college students’ decisions to attend an HBCU or a PWI 4-year institution. Differences among African Americans in factors influencing the ...
An Examination of Factors Influencing Collegiate Social Integration of African American Students at a Predominantly White Institution
(2012-05-03)
There is a lack of research addressing social integration of African American students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Evidence has indicated that the college experience for African American students at ...
An Examination of Factors Influencing Differences in Academic Performance among Active Duty Military Students and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship Students in a University Setting
(2006-08-15)
Naval Science Departments at universities across the country have two groups of students: Active duty and non-active duty students. These two types of students seem to have parity with regard to requisite academic ability, ...
Examination of factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages
(2013-10-28)
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that promote transformative learning experiences of college-level adult learners of foreign languages. This study was conducted to analyze how college-level adult learners ...
Examination of Faculty Members’ Multicultural Teaching Competencies at a Four-Year Institution
(2016-05-04)
The demographic diversification of the student body and the cultural mismatch between the students and their educators have impacted both the academic achievement of the students and the faculty and graduate-level educators ...
Examination of FlightStream for Proximity Flight with Stores
(2017-07-27)
The goal of the following work was to validate and demonstrate the capability of the FlightStream solver to model proximity flight. To this end, wind tunnel proximity data for a MK-82SE bomb released from an F-16 was used ...
An Examination of Freshman Participation in a Study Skills Course and Retention at a Four-Year Southeastern University
(2006-08-15)
The issue of student retention remains a fundamental concern for both educators and administrators around the world. While most institutions tend to agree that retention is an important concern, they may differ in determining ...
Examination of Gaming in Nursing Education and the Effects on Learning and Retention
(2008-12-15)
The college environment brings together adult learners from diverse backgrounds who have different goals, personal and work experiences, and learning styles. These learners have the ability to learn in as many ways as ...
An Examination of Gender and Occupational Training on Grade Point Averages of Postsecondary Career Technical Education Graduates in Alabama
(2014-11-24)
Career technical education programs are viewed as an essential resource to addressing the economic and workforce development needs in the State of Alabama. The primary impetus for this study is to determine whether students ...
An Examination of Green Environmental Attributes in Hotel Service Settings
(2010-08-17)
This study uses Baker’s (1987) conceptualization of the physical environment (referred to from here as service environment framework) as a skeleton to build a new framework that introduces ‘green’ to service environment ...
An Examination of How Self-Control and Impulsivity Influences Eating Habits and Alcohol Use
(2014-04-25)
People frequently make decisions that might affect their health. Obesity and alcohol dependence are debilitating problems facing many adults and individual differences in self-control and impulsivity may contribute to the ...
Examination of how the use of multimedia characteristics, political partisanship and perceived organizational reputation influence perceived message effectiveness and attitudes toward the message of health organizations’ COVID-19 tweets
(2022-04-20)
Based on the social presence theory, this study aimed to examine the potential impact of using multimedia characteristics within health communication tweets in terms of perceived message effectiveness and attitudes toward ...
An Examination of Information Technology and its Perceived Quality Issues in Single System Hospitals in the United States
(2009-12-15)
The safety and quality of healthcare is of great concern in the United States. The positive effects of information technology reported in past research, especially case studies, has encouraged expectations that information ...
An Examination of Intolerance of Uncertainty, Anxiety, and Spirituality in College Undergraduates
(2024-04-22)
Feelings of distress over the unknowns of the future refers to an intolerance of uncertainty (IU). IU is significantly linked to internalizing disorders like anxiety. College students are in a unique position of uncertainty ...
An Examination of Job Satisfaction and Work/Life Balance among Racial Minority Faculty in Higher Education
(2017-07-25)
Racial minority faculty remain underrepresented in higher education institutions across the U.S. Faculty continue to encounter barriers to recruitment and retention such as over extension, discrimination, the lack of ...