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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 ...
An Examination of Language Learning Beliefs and Language Learning Strategy Use in Adult ESL Learners in a Higher Educational Setting
(2014-05-01)
The purpose of this study was to examine adult international students’ English learning beliefs and their use of different learning strategies at a four-year institution. This study was conducted to analyze English learning ...
Examination of Leadership and 4-H Experience among 4-H Participants
(2021-07-20)
The future of the nation, and the future of world civilization, will soon rest in the hands of today’s youth (Kleon & Rinhart, 1998). Youth organizations such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and 4-H provide lifelong leadership ...
Examination of Learning Styles and Technology Perceptions among Higher Education Students
(2015-07-23)
Today, adoption of innovative technology is an important subject for research and work. Recent research discussed the importance of integrating modern technology into teaching and learning environments in higher education ...
An Examination of Mental and Physical Health in College
(2015-05-04)
The transitional years of college that a traditional student faces are full of change and adaptation; these years of emerging adulthood require learning how to balance new responsibilities. Although this new independence ...
An Examination of Mentoring Mindsets of Faculty (Mentors) and Graduate Students (Protégés): An Exploratory Study of a Mentoring Framework
(2017-05-17)
The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics consisting of attitudes, behaviors, and competencies of protégés in a mentoring relationship. The study examined the presence or absence of a protégé mentoring ...
Examination of Mentoring Relationships of Women in Student Affairs
(2014-12-10)
According to the American Council on Education (2007) the growth of women in leadership positions in higher education has been slow and has not taken place consistently at different types of higher education institutions. ...
An Examination of Metamorphic Uranium Occurrences in Coosa County, Alabama
(2010-07-06)
Coosa County, Alabama, is host to one or more presumably metamorphosed uranium occurrences of unknown size or grade. The exact location, size and mode of emplacement of each uranium occurrence is currently unknown. This ...
An Examination of MHz Rate PIV in a Heated Supersonic Jet
(2014-07-29)
An experimental investigation of a high temperature, supersonic jet conducted at the University of Mississippi's National Center for Physical Acoustics is described. Time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) was used ...