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Elies, Abigail M., Shannon Groff, Michelle Mc Craney, and Sunddip Panesar Aguilar. "Grit and Academic Success in Graduate Masters-Level Athletic Training Programs." International Journal of Social Science And Human Research 05, no. 11 (November 11, 2022): 4962–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i11-18.

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: A construct termed grit, a non-cognitive personality trait, defined as the perseverance and passion for achieving long-term goals, was introduced by Duckworth et al. Grit entails working tirelessly to reach goals while maintaining determination and interest despite obstacles that hinder progress. Although grit-scale surveys are included as part of the application process in other healthcare professional education programs, no published literature cites grit-scale surveys as part of the applications process in Masters-level athletic training (MSAT) programs. The problem addressed is the current lack of gritscale utilization during the admission process to MSAT programs as a non-cognitive tool to contribute to identifying applicants who will be academically successful. The National Athletic Trainers’ Association Research Survey Service was utilized to send a web-based survey to over 1000 email addresses. Data was analyzed using the most current version of SPSS (26.0) and was analyzed over four stages. All variables in the study were examined using descriptive statistics. Examples of descriptive statistical analysis used were mean and standard deviation, nominal/ordinal level frequency and percentage of categorical variables, and interval and ratio levels of values for continuous variables. Results of the study uncovered that Grit-S scores were higher in participants who attempted to complete the BOC exam more than once. Grit-S scores were lower in participants who had experienced severe human suffering. No demographic variable (age, racial and ethnic identity, gender) was found to correlate with the Grit-S score. Although the first-time pass rate of the BOC exam was not positively correlated with a higher grit score, Grit continues to reveal itself as a positive indicator of academic success. To maintain and increase alignment with other healthcare professional education programs, the use of Grit-S assessments during the admissions process as an identifier of applicants who will maintain determination and interest, despite failures, setbacks, and plateaus is recommended.
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Hamilton, Jillian, Michelle Fox, and Mitchell McEwan. "Sessional Academic Success: A Distributed Framework for Academic Support and Development." Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 10, no. 3 (July 1, 2013): 146–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.10.3.9.

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With approximately half of Australian university teaching now performed by Sessional Academics, there has been growing recognition of the contribution they make to student learning. At the same time, sectorwide research and institutional audits continue to raise concerns about academic development, quality assurance, recognition and belonging (Red Report, 2008; May, 2013). In response, universities have increasingly begun to offer academic development programs for Sessional Academics. However, such programs tend to be centrally delivered, generic in nature, and contained within the moment of delivery, while the Faculty contexts and cultures that Sessional Academics work within are diverse, and the need for support unfolds in ad-hoc and often unpredictable ways. In this paper we present the Sessional Academic Success (SAS) program – a new framework that complements and extends the central academic development program for Sessional Academics at Queensland University of Technology. This program recognizes that experienced Sessional Academics have much to contribute to the advancement of learning and teaching, and harnesses their expertise to provide school-based academic development opportunities, peer-to-peer support, and locally contextualized community building. We describe the program’s implementation and explain how Sessional Academic Success Advisors (SASAs) are employed, trained and supported to provide advice and mentorship and, through a co-design methodology, to develop local development opportunities and communities of teaching practice within their schools. Besides anticipated benefits to new Sessional Academics in terms of timely and contextual support and improved sense of belonging, we explain how SAS provides a pathway for building leadership capacity and academic advancement for experienced Sessional Academics. We take a collaborative, dialogic and reflective practice approach to this paper, interlacing insights from the Associate Director, Academic: Sessional Development who designed the program, and two Sessional Academic Success Advisors who have piloted it within their schools.
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Telbis, Nicola Miky, Lars Helgeson, and Cheryl Kingsbury. "International Students’ Confidence and Academic Success." Journal of International Students 4, no. 4 (October 1, 2014): 330–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v4i4.452.

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Research shows that the international student population is showing significant growth. This article deals with issues affecting a growing international student population. Studies show that foreign students are encountering difficulties in social adaptability, language barriers, academic ability, and financial need. There is evidence that a correlation exists among a sense of self-efficacy and each of these four issues. This study includes quantitative analysis of 137 students’ responses to a questionnaire addressing each of these issues that constitute their total resources. Data show that international students attending a mid-western university who scored high on confidence levels in completing their programs of study also scored high on the confidence of their resources. Analysis revealed that students who scored low in confidence for completing their programs of study also scored low on their confidence of these four aforementioned issues.
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Mann, Kent B. "Recognition Programs for Academic Success: Improvement or Achievement?" NASSP Bulletin 72, no. 512 (December 1988): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019263658807251219.

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Kirby, Lauren, and Patricia Amason. "Academic Success: Perceptions of Student-Athletes, Learning Specialists, and Academic Advisors." Journal of Higher Education Athletics & Innovation, no. 7 (May 4, 2021): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5267.2020.1.7.33-60.

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The current study explores how academic success is defined and perceived by student-athletes and athletic academic support staff professionals, specifically learning specialists and academic advisors. Using qualitative methods, one-on-one interviews were conducted with participants from six “Power 5” programs to establish overarching themes. Academic advisors identified academic achievement and personal development as academic success. Learning specialists identified academic success as maximizing individual potential. Student-athletes identified meeting grade-based standards and work ethic resulting in reaching personal goals as academic success for themselves. Student-athletes also perceived that their advisor would identify eligibility and effort as academic success, and that their learning specialist would view academic success as building academic skills and work ethic.
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Antonetti, Christine Marie. "Postsecondary Transition Programs for Underprepared Writers." Journal of Curriculum and Teaching 6, no. 2 (November 29, 2017): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jct.v6n2p113.

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There is a large population of students who enter postsecondary institutions underprepared in the area of writing,which can negatively affect their academic success in various disciplines. Lack of alignment between secondary andpostsecondary education writing curricula is a common cause of why students are underprepared in writing.Identifying gaps in writing when transitioning from secondary to postsecondary institutions is critical in creatingappropriate writing support programs which better prepare students for academic success. Moreover, in order tofacilitate successful postsecondary writing outcomes, proactive writing interventions (transition programs) betweensecondary and postsecondary institutions can be implemented to generate a positive impact on students’ ability towrite, thereby leading to greater academic success.
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Stank, Theodore P., and Thomas Goldsby. "Bridging the gap between academic responsibilities and practical application in logistics." Journal of Transportation Management 10, no. 1 (April 1, 1998): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.22237/jotm/891388920.

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The paper presents a model inspired by the success of innovative logistics programs that have enhanced the relevance of academic programs by developing closer ties with logistics and transportation practitioners. Discussion focuses on examples that illustrate implementation of the model. The intent is to provide a blueprint for academics to enhance cooperation at locations that do not currently have such programs in place.
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Afalla, Bonimar T., and Fitzgerald L. Fabelico. "SUSTAINING ACADEMIC SUCCESS THROUGH EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8, no. 4 (July 16, 2020): 213–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2020.8422.

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Purpose of the study: This study ascertained the classroom management practices of teachers and their relationship to the academic performance of college students of a state university in the Philippines. Methodology: As a correlational study, 317 randomly selected senior college students served as respondents. A survey questionnaire was used to determine the level of teachers’ classroom management practices. The Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of the students constitute their academic performance. Frequency, percentage, mean, and Pearson r were used to analyse gathered data statistically. Main Findings: When the teachers give priority to the physical classroom condition, the students tend to feel relaxed and comfortable, thereby displaying a higher level of academic performance. Further, students performed better when the teachers positively reinforced their responses. Furthermore, the students’ better performance in their educational undertakings is linked with teachers’ adeptness in time management. Applications of this study: To further improve the academic performance of students, teachers may strengthen the teaching-learning process through the following provisions: inspiring classroom setups, classroom enhancement programs (peer teaching, remedial and tutorial programs), appropriate educative measures and proper allocation of time. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study provides verifications that some aspects of classroom management such as physical condition, discipline, and time management are significantly linked to students’ academic success.
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Farruggia, Susan P., Cheon-woo Han, Lakeshia Watson, Thomas P. Moss, and Bette L. Bottoms. "Noncognitive Factors and College Student Success." Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice 20, no. 3 (September 26, 2016): 308–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1521025116666539.

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Farrington and colleagues developed a model that contends that academic mindsets, academic perseverance, learning strategies, social skills, and academic behaviors affect academic success. This study tests a modified version of this model with first-year students ( n = 1,603) at a large, ethnically diverse, urban university. The hypothesized structural model had acceptable fit, with minor modifications. The direct effect on academic performance of academic mindset was strong, of academic perseverance was modest, and of time management was nonsignificant. Only participants’ academic performance had a strong positive effect on retention. Few differences by ethnicity were found. As mindsets are amenable to change, with intervention programs showing promising effects, students with low scores should be targeted to receive support early in their college careers so they may succeed in college.
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Peterson, Virginia M. "Predictors of academic success in first semester baccalaureate nursing students." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 37, no. 3 (April 1, 2009): 411–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2009.37.3.411.

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Recently the number of students graduating from nursing programs has been insufficient to replace nurses leaving the workforce. The attrition rate for students entering baccalaureate nursing education programs is approximately 30%, with most (82.3%), leaving in their first semester of study (Morgan, 2001). Schools of nursing need to establish ways to decrease student attrition from programs. This study was an attempt to determine whether self-esteem, self-efficacy, and environmental variables are predictors of student attrition in first-semester baccalaureate nursing students, using a descriptive correlational design to explore the relationship between these variables in a non-probability convenience sample of 66 first semester baccalaureate nursing students. No statistically significant relationship between self-esteem, self-efficacy, or environmental variables and student attrition was revealed.
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Rode, Cheryl Rebecca. "Academic programs and services that affect student athlete success." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2763.

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Post, Jennifer B. "The Effect of Freshmen Year Programs on Academic Success." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36720.

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Student affairs practitioners attempt to combine in-class and out-of-class learning. One example of this is first year residential programs. In these programs freshmen live together in one residence hall. Each program is different, but common characteristics include increased student staff, freshmen seminar, and increase programming on adjustment issues.

This study examines one first year program (FYP) and attempts to determine the effects of the program on the academic success of the participants. Gender differences and ethnic differences were also examined. Academic success was defined as those elements of students' collegiate experiences that relate to retention and graduation. The instrument used in this study was based on a specific definition of academic success.

Five hundred and thirty five students were asked to participate in the study, and a total of 249 usable instruments were returned, for a response rate of 48.44%. Of the 249 participants, 264 (49.35%) were in the FYP and 271 (50.65%) were not in the FYP. The non-FYP students lived in a variety of buildings on campus.

There were significant findings in several areas of academic success. FYP participants had higher grades overall and completed more class credits. FYP students were more likely to understand academic policies and requirements. FYP students were more likely to complete all assignments before class and they were more likely to begin taking steps towards their career goals. Students in the FYP also reported higher levels of contact with faculty and higher attendance at university events. The FYP appeared to offer opportunities that enabled students to reach higher levels of academic success.
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Webster, Marsha Ann. "Impact of orientation programs on nontraditional students' perceived academic success in adult education programs." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2108.

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Many administrators and faculty within higher education institutions have grappled with identifying and employing effective strategies to facilitate student success and persistence. The current study focuses on assessing nontraditional students' self-efficacy beliefs and their perception of the orientation program at a 2-year continuing education program in a Caribbean nation. The study is important as the findings have the potential to increase nontraditional students' persistence and learning. Bandura's social cognitive theory and the theory of self-efficacy served as the theoretical frameworks of this sequential mixed-methods design study. The quantitative research questions examined the reported self-efficacy levels of 77 participants and nonparticipants in the orientation program. The qualitative research questions focused on 10 nontraditional students' perceptions of how the orientation program they participated in impacted their ability to complete and succeed in their course of study. A survey that combined 2 preestablished instruments was used in the quantitative phase and follow-up face-to-face interviews for the qualitative phase of the study. A ttest analysis showed no statistically significant difference between the self-efficacy of participants and nonparticipants in the focal orientation program. A pattern coding of the interviews revealed 5themes from the qualitative phase, ranging from nontraditional students' challenges to self-efficacy and persistence in the program. A policy recommendation in the form of a white paper was used to convey the findings of this study to the major stakeholders at the target institution. The recommendations from the study may contribute to positive social change as they can improve nontraditional students' performance, increase completion rates at the institution, and positively impact economic growth of the wider community.
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DeFelice, Carol Esselborn. "The relationship between self-efficacy and academic achievement in associate degree nursing programs /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1989. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10901449.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1989.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Elizabeth H. Tucker. Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth M. Maloney. Bibliography: leaves 75-78.
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McKenzie, Beth A. Bancroft. "Predictors of Academic Success in a Career-Ladder Nursing Program at Hocking College." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1210860967.

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Hagan, Robert Michael. "Academic achievement success for ESL students| An approach to school organization, leadership, and programs." Thesis, Fordham University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3559465.

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The increased number of English language learners (ELLs) presents a difficult task for middle school building principals. The challenge of ensuring the success of ELLs in future years will force schools to rethink educational practices. This study focused on how middle school building principals strategically planned, organized, and managed their schools to meet the needs of ELLs. The phenomenological study was based on the growing student population of English as a second language (ESL) in school districts in Eastern New York. Ten principals were interviewed and a triangulation of data was achieved through observation and collection of documents. The researcher found through bridging that middle school principals engaged in relationship building with parents, students, teachers, and community to create a sense of belonging in the school. As a result, principals are encouraged to provide professional opportunities for the faculty to become certified ESL teachers, accessible to community members, bilingual, and engaged in community building.

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Fallon, David M. "An Analysis of academic assistance programs on at-risk students at the United States Naval Academy." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2156.

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The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of academic assistance programs on at-risk students at the United States Naval Academy. Each year, students determined to be at-risk are enrolled in an academic assistance program known as the Plebe Intervention Program. In addition, other academic assistance programs are available to these students. In particular, the Naval Academy administers a program known as the Midshipmen Group Study Program, which is based on the supplemental instruction model. This study examines the impact of participation in each of these programs as a determinant to persistence beyond the freshman year. Other determinants examined included demographics (ethnicity and gender), course grades, athletic status, and preadmittance data (SAT scores).
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Triska, Olive Helen. "Academic success in five programs in allied health at the British Columbia Institute of Technology." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31149.

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This study examined the nature and strength of relationship between specific related high school academic grades and the cumulative graduating average of students in five allied health programs at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Lack of scientific studies on selection criteria for determining the cumulative graduating average of allied health professionals at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (B.C.I.T.) was evident. Educators argue that in order to enhance educational opportunities for institute students, there is a professional obligation upon the policy-makers to gather appropriate data to determine which factors contribute to the success of the allied health student. With the high cost of technical education, admission officers and admissions committees are accountable for their selection processes to the institute's administration, decision makers, provincial and federal funding sources, and society. The results of this study may assist admissions officers in selecting academic variables that indicate the cumulative graduating average so that a better match can be made between the students and their performance in allied health programs. The accessible population of 629 graduates from the allied health technologies in this study were biomedical electronics, medical laboratory, medical radiography, nuclear medicine, and prosthetics and orthotics. The dependent variable measurement of academic achievement for these students was their cumulative graduating average. Single variables consisted of the grade point average of the following: pretechnology academic requirements, high school English, high school algebra, high school biology, high school chemistry, and high school physics. Descriptive statistics, zero-order correlations, and stepwise multiple regression analysis were the statistical methods employed to determine which specific academic variable or multiple of variables exhibited a strong relationship between the cumulative graduating average and academic variables. The analysis identified certain variables that strongly related to the cumulative graduating average, both singly and in combination with others. Each of the program significant combination of variables are provided here in order of descending influence: Biomedical Electronics Technology- high school algebra; Medical Laboratory Technology- the pretechnology grade point average, high school chemistry, biology, and algebra; Medical Radiography Technology- high school biology and chemistry; Nuclear Medicine- the pretechnology grade point average, high school chemistry, and high school biology; Prosthetics and Orthotics Technology- the pretechnology grade point average and high school chemistry. Academic variables did not account for more than 34% of the total variables in any of the programs. The level of significance for individual variables was the convention, 0.05. Clearly, each program had its own character; however, the performance of students in the natural sciences were significant in four of the five programs. An attempt was made to investigate which specific high school subjects correlated highly with the cumulative graduating average of students at the B.C.I.T. through a inspection of five programs for five graduating classes. Relevant variables were identified that were indicative of academic achievement in each specific program of study. Investigating the nature and strength of relationship between preprofessional grades and the cumulative graduating average of allied health students at B.C.I.T. could benefit both students and admissions officers by supplying a piece to an educational puzzle that would demystify the selection process. The information presented may assist admissions officers and prospective allied health students make more suitable educational choices.
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Preston, Sean Michael. "The completion of advanced placement courses as an indicator of academic success in first-year college students." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Nickerson, Terrill L. "Parents' Perceptions of Academic Progress Information Access and Dual Enrollment Student Success." Thesis, Walden University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3742228.

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To comply with The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations, parents of high school students taking college classes as part of a dual enrollment program have to employ alternative monitoring practices to remain informed about their students’ academic progress. This quantitative research study explored how parents’ perceptions of access to student academic progress information correlated with their students’ academic performance based on cumulative grade point average (GPA) in college classes. Credit-based transition programs (CBTP) and parent monitoring theory provided the framework. All 867 parents of students under age 18 enrolled in the dual enrollment program at an urban community college in a western state during the winter quarter 2015 were asked to respond a 10 question survey instrument, modified from Stattin and Kerr (2000) and six demographic indicators. The results of 59 returned questionnaires were linked to GPAs of students using descriptive and correlational statistics. A small response (6.8%) limited the ability to correlate parental perceptions and dual enrollment success in college courses. No significance was demonstrated; however, when cumulative GPAs and parent responses on the survey instrument were correlated using split-cases with demographic indictors, six significant correlations appeared. These indicated that parents do appear to play some significant role in supporting their dual enrollment student’s success in college courses. As a result, colleges may want to find mechanisms for parents of dual enrollment students to stay engaged without compromising the FERPA regulations.

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Books on the topic "Academic Success Programs"

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International students and academic libraries: Initiatives for success. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011.

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Bouie, Anne. After-school success: Academic enrichment strategies with urban youth. New York: Teachers College Press, 2007.

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1942-, Ness Judy, ed. Student success: How to make it happen. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011.

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ACCESSing school: Teaching struggling readers to achieve academic and personal success. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005.

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Bonsangue, Nancy J. The teddy bear express two!: Skills and strategies for early academic success. Denver, Colo: Love Pub., 2005.

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"It's being done": Academic success in unexpected schools. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Education Press, 2007.

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Ensuring success for all students: Programs that work. Columbus, Ohio: National Middle School Association, 1997.

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Catch your kids before they fall: 140+ skill-builders to boost academic success. Peterborough, N.H: CSB, 2010.

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Farmer, Lesley S. J. Student success and library media programs: A systems approach to research and best practice. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2003.

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Failure is not an option: 6 principles for making student success the only option. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin Press, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Academic Success Programs"

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Steinberg, Steven M. "Establishing Departmental Mentorship Programs." In Success in Academic Surgery, 139–47. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71132-4_14.

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deMontigny, David. "Managing Academic Integrity in Canadian Engineering Schools." In Academic Integrity in Canada, 291–306. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83255-1_15.

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AbstractThis chapter explores what engineering schools across Canada are doing to address and advance academic integrity amongst their students, including how they are currently promoting academic integrity and managing related academic misconduct issues. Responses from a national survey are compared to identify the approaches and practices that are more widely adopted, as well as unique approaches that may warrant broader use. Input was also received from the twelve provincial and territorial engineering regulators that operate across the country. In addition to identifying areas of success, potential opportunities for additional progress are identified. This work serves as a starting point for dialogue among universities and regulators. All parties have a vested interest in strengthening the integrity of engineering students during their academic training and professional development. It is clear from this study that a collective effort is needed to develop solutions, educate faculty, and mentor students to achieve a higher standard of academic integrity. The successes and opportunities highlighted here may be helpful to other professional programs, such as nursing, medical, dentistry, law, and business schools, where integrity is also of extreme importance.
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Finlayson, Samuel R. G. "Building a Health Services Research Program." In Success in Academic Surgery, 273–82. London: Springer London, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4718-3_24.

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Dardik, Alan. "Being a Leader: Organizing a Basic Science Research Program." In Success in Academic Surgery, 189–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71132-4_19.

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Kang, Ravinder, and Sandra L. Wong. "Being a Leader: Organizing a Health Services Research Program." In Success in Academic Surgery, 199–213. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71132-4_20.

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Zeh, Herbert J. "Building a Successful Clinical Program in the Academic Medical Center." In Success in Academic Surgery, 181–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71132-4_18.

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López, Dante, Luis Villaseñor, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Eduardo Morales, and Hugo Jair Escalante. "Predicting Academic-Challenge Success." In Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, 874–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13469-3_101.

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Nwariaku, Fiemu E. "Setting Up a ‘Lab’ (Clinical or Basic Science Research Program) and Managing a Research Team." In Success in Academic Surgery, 161–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43952-5_13.

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Nwariaku, Fiemu E. "Setting Up a “Lab”(Clinical or Basic Science Research Program) and Managing a Research Team." In Success in Academic Surgery, 201–15. London: Springer London, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-313-8_13.

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Tshishonga, Ndwakhulu Stephen, and Muzi Patrick Matse. "Academic Mentoring for Undergraduate University Students in South Africa." In Using Self-Efficacy for Improving Retention and Success of Diverse Student Populations, 112–37. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-5039-0.ch007.

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This chapter interrogates the role of opportunities and challenges of an academic mentoring program for undergraduate students at Howard College Campus in the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Such programs target the first-year students especially those from the disadvantaged schooling background. In this chapter, it became apparent that students enrolled and committed to the mentoring program were able to improve their academic performance, made adaptation to university life easily, and increased their self-confidence. Although South Africa has inherited a dysfunctional education system, mentoring program offers a structured support for underground students to cope academically, emotionally, and socially. This chapter reflects the views of mentors employed by the mentoring program. This empirical study has used interviews with 10 mentors employed to facilitate mentoring programs within the Faculty of Humanities.
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Conference papers on the topic "Academic Success Programs"

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Karimi, Amir. "Examples of Academic Support Systems to Improve Student Success." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-15348.

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The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has implemented a number of academic support systems to address obstacles to student success and to improve student retention. This paper describes the student demographics at UTSA, provides tracking data on student enrollment and retention, and includes discussion of the underlying causes of student attrition. It will describe some of the programs that are implemented to improve student success. Data is provided to measure the level of success of some of the programs that have implemented for the student success.
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Merritt, James, and Robert Smith. "Early Success for Pipeline Safety Research With Universities." In 2016 11th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2016-64043.

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In 2013, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) implemented a new cooperative agreement program entitled the Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP). The CAAP initially was modeled after similar existing private and public sector based university programs where students themselves competed to participate in a limited number of publicized student intern programs. After just three years, CAAP is breathing further innovation into PHMSA’s pipeline safety research endeavors. One difference between CAAP and the traditional university student research model is that the professors directing students under CAAP have control over the number and educational level of the students entering into the program. This promotes a “Team Approach,” which today’s pipeline industry sees as an added value when interviewing potential job applicants. The CAAP is intended to spur innovation through enabling an academic research focus on high risk and high payoff solutions for wide ranging pipeline safety challenges. The CAAP is different in focus, execution and reporting than PHMSA’s core program on Pipeline Safety Research. It is intended to potentially deliver desired technical or scientific/quantitative solutions that can be “handed-off” for further investigations in future year CAAP applications or used in PHMSA’s core Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) program, which employs partnerships with a variety of public/private organizations. Another goal for CAAP is to expose undergraduate, MS and PhD research students to subject matter related to their educational area of focus, while addressing pipeline safety challenges. This approach is illustrating how their engineering or technical discipline is highly desired and needed across the pipeline field. The pipeline industry and federal/state regulators are all experiencing low numbers of entry level applications to positions that are engineering or technically focused. Public conferences, meetings and journals have identified similar shortfalls. This paper will describe the level of CAAP investment and focus areas to date; illustrate how efforts to expose student research to industry enhances employment opportunities; and comment on where promising innovations are coming from due to these research endeavors.
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Wangenheim, Matthias, Sarah Engelmann, and Frank Haupt. "Better Learning Success in Engineering Mechanics." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-50377.

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Studying engineering mechanics is mandatory for every engineering student at Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). The course is divided into four parts (statics, elastostatics, kinetics and kinematics, dynamics) and is taught over a period of two years at the very beginning of each study program. While students’ evaluations of our courses are good in general, we face a high failure rate in the exams, which are written once at the end of each course. In later stages of the engineering study programs, it seems hard to for us enthusing students for our research topics. Thus, finding M.Sc. or PhD students is more difficult for us than it should be. In a university funded, internal 12-month project we aim to optimize our Engineering Mechanics Tutorials, which provide a specific, relatively interactive form of teaching to the students. With internal and external consultancy by professional lecturers and didactics trainers, our project team has developed a course of actions and measures to raise the academic success of our students. In this publication we will discuss these actions as well as ways to measure and verify their success.
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Parker, Mary Jo. "A STEM Model Encouraging Post-Baccalaureate Pathways for First Generation, Underrepresented Undergraduates." In Fifth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head19.2019.9461.

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The University of Houston-Downtown supports a STEM program, Scholars Academy (SA) within the College of Sciences and Technology dedicated to enhancing, preparing, and enlightening minority, underrepresented, and first-generation majors seeking entrance into workforce, graduate, and professional programs of preparation. Over the past 18 years the University of Houston-Downtown Scholars Academy has implemented a series of success components supporting the nurturance of post-baccalaureate graduate and professional pursuit yielding a 51% acceptance rate into medical school, over 68 professional degrees (ranging from MD to DO to DDS and DPharm) earned by alumni, over 20 PhD degrees, and over 900 minority/underrepresented undergraduates moving into professional/graduate fields. Briefly, STEM success components consist of 1) Freshman Ramp Up support; 2) Academic Skill Monitoring; 3) Mentoring, peer to peer and PhD to undergraduate; 4) Career and Research Skill Development support; and finally 5) Leadership Development through Community Engagement support.
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Karimi, Amir. "A Freshman Engineering Education Experience." In ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2007-43664.

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This paper describes a freshman engineering educational experience at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). It highlights the first year engineering curriculum and an academic support system that is designed for student success during the freshman year. Traditional course work in calculus, chemistry, calculus based physics, introductions to engineering, engineering graphics, and writing courses are a part of the freshman engineering curriculum. The university offers a number of academic support programs to help freshman students a smooth transition from high school to college life. A Freshmen Seminar course, which is designed to enhance students’ educational experiences during the freshman year, is an important element of the university’s academic support system. This paper briefly describes the content of an introductory course in engineering and the Freshman Seminar. It also describes some of the programs within the university that are implemented to improve student success during the freshman year.
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Neira Embus, Manuel Fernando, Jesus Hernán Camacho Tamayo, and María Alejandra Guzmán Pardo. "Chart for Flexible Curriculum in terms of Time and Similarity." In Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11271.

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Within the framework of the evaluation of curricular reforms made in the programs of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, this proposal is designed as an evaluation tool for a flexible curriculum, to characterize the enrollment behavior of students and their possible relationships with demographics and academic success. The principle consists of plotting the median time and similarity coefficients of each student in the program on the axes of a two-dimensional Cartesian plane. On the X-axis, the time coefficient was plotted, consisting in the relationship between the time proposed by the program curriculum for each course, and the time when the student takes it. On the Y-axis, the similarity coefficient was plotted, consisting in the number of courses that were taken at the time indicated in the curriculum grid. The conclusions suggest that, for the program analyzed, there are no demographic biases. However, the findings of this study suggest that even though students seek to take the proposed curriculum with the highest possible similarity, they spend more time than the estimated to achieve academic success
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Young, Raymond, and Han Qiao. "WHERE PROJECT MANAGERS CAN GO TO DEVELOP THEIR SOFT SKILLS: A CURRICULUM MAPPING OF UNIVERSITY COURSES IN THE US, EUROPE AND CHINA AGAINST THE ACADEMIC LITERATURE AND IPMA’S ICB4.0." In 10th IPMA Research conference: Value co-creation in the project society. International Project Management Association, Serbian Project Management Association, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56889/miei9307.

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This research explores where project management practitioners can go to develop their soft skills. The academic research is presented and then summarised to identify the core soft skills needed for success (ICB4.0+). We then mapped the course offerings of top universities such as Harvard University, Oxford University and Tsinghua University against these core soft skills. We conclude that very few universities offer courses that develop the soft skills needed for project success. The practical implications of this research are that: The findings will guide project management practitioners on where they can go to develop the soft skills that are critical to project success. The newly developed ICB4.0+ may guide the development of project management education programs and may lead to practitioners actually being taught what they need to succeed. Further research is recommended to validate the mapping of university courses against the ICB4.0+ competencies.
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Young, Dave, Bill Young, Lisa Young, and Bing Wei. "THE IMPACTS OF MENTORSHIP ON DUAL ENROLLMENT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v2end079.

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"Dual enrollment programs enable high school students to take community college courses and earn high school and college credits, saving two years of college expenses. However, many dual enrollment students lack a robust support system for success in college-level coursework and environment. The authors created an interdisciplinary mentorship program that pairs a volunteer dual enrollment senior student with a dual enrollment junior student in a longitudinal mentoring relationship to address this. This study examined mentors’ and mentees’ long-term evaluation of the program and its impacts. Thirty-nine mentors and mentees were randomly matched with a waitlist control group, and mentoring relationships lasted for a full academic quarter. Participants later completed an anonymous online feedback survey (based on the Likert Scale), with a response rate of 67% (n = 26). Mentees reported an average 1.37 Likert scale increase in their comfort in dual enrollment; mentors reported an average 2.43 Likert scale increase in confidence in teaching others. Mentees’ comfort in the college environment increased with the frequency of meetings (p<0.05); the number of meetings did not correlate to their grade point average (GPA) (p>0.05). Change in dual enrollment comfort was more significant among matched students than waitlisted (p<0.05). Notably, many dual enrollment programs have a ~10% student academic probation rate (GPA<2.0) each quarter; none of the mentees experienced academic probation, but this was not significant. Among mentees, 79% reported interest in being a mentor the following year. These results indicate that peer mentorship is crucial for dual enrollment student success and presents a self-sustaining model for the future."
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Roldán Jiménez, Lizeth Stephany. "MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT STUDENT ACADEMIC RISK IN ENGINEERING." In Mujeres en ingeniería: empoderamiento, liderazgo y compromiso. Asociacion Colombiana de Facultades de Ingeniería - ACOFI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26507/ponencia.1579.

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Identifying academic risk in an engineering program is very important since it allows to stablish policies that can be applied to prevent it and to guarantee student success. At Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá – Colombia, we have developed some methods that can be used to predict the number of students that are in academic risk or even in dropout risk. This information can be employed to identify possible actions and interventions in our programs. We focus in the necessity to design and implement models to recognize patterns associated with academic performance and transitions of undergraduate students.Our strategies are faced to accompany the students. Once we identify the risk, every student is evaluated by an academic adviser, who is in charge of determining the possible causes of the low performance and this way customize the support. In this sense, weaknesses are identified around CDIO competencies, for example, interpersonal competences, basic knowledge, algorithmic thinking, problem solving or personal skills. In this way, students are routed to different strategies to strengthen those abilities.This paper starts with an introduction justifying this work. After that, a section describes the methodology to predict academic risk. Then, we present our accompaniment strategies. Some future works are also presented. In this context, this work tries to give hints about particular intervention for student in risk.
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Boothe, Diane. "LITERACY, LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: STRUCTURING ENGLISH TEACHING PROGRAMS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2022v1end104.

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"This study will examine English learning environments and methods in rural settings in Europe and the United States, assessing their contributions to language learning, both written and spoken. This is a pilot project and will evolve into a rigorous comprehensive study suitable for publication as a chapter and part of an edited volume. This study will compare and contrast educational systems, including two different styles of English education structured in a comparative analysis using five focal areas. These focal areas include the definition and structure of rural education, English language learning modalities, linguistic environment, academic leadership, educational outcomes and indicators of success. For the purpose of this paper, the definition and structure of rural education and English language learning modalities will be addressed. The opportunity to investigate the experiences of teachers who are active in rural communities and focus on the multidimensional aspects of the education of multilingual learners will provide valuable information that will contribute to expert teaching and learning. Embracing English language learning, new technologies, and initiating change through proactive educational strategies including a paradigm shift to incorporate a translanguaging pedagogy for emergent English speakers will lead to relevant and purposeful accomplishments in rural school settings."
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Olsen, Laurie, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Magaly Lavadenz, Elvira Armas, and Franca Dell'Olio. Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative: A Three-Year Pilot Study Research Monograph. PROMISE INITIATIVE, February 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.seal2010.

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The Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative Research Monograph is comprised of four sub-studies that took place between 2006 and 2009 to examine the effectiveness of the PROMISE Initiative across six implementing counties. Beginning in 2002, the superintendents of the six Southern California County Offices of Education collaborated to examine the pattern of the alarmingly low academic performance of English learners (EL) across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Riverside, and Ventura. Together, these six counties serve over one million EL students, more than 66% of the total EL population in the state of California, and close to 20% of the EL population in the nation. Data were compiled for the six counties, research on effective programs for ELs was shared, and a common vision for the success of ELs began to emerge. Out of this effort, the PROMISE Initiative was created to uphold a critical vision that ensured that ELs achieved and sustained high levels of proficiency, high levels of academic achievement, sociocultural and multicultural competency, preparation for successful transition to higher education, successful preparation as a 21st century global citizen, and high levels of motivation, confidence, and self-assurance. This report is organized into six chapters: an introductory chapter, four chapters of related studies, and a summary chapter. The four studies were framed around four areas of inquiry: 1) What is the PROMISE model? 2) What does classroom implementation of the PROMISE model look like? 3) What leadership skills do principals at PROMISE schools need to lead transformative education for ELs? 4) What impact did PROMISE have on student learning and participation? Key findings indicate that the PROMISE Initiative: • resulted in positive change for ELs at all levels including achievement gains and narrowing of the gap between ELs and non-ELs • increased use of research-based classroom practices • refined and strengthened plans for ELs at the district-level, and • demonstrated potential to enable infrastructure, partnerships, and communities of practice within and across the six school districts involved. The final chapter of the report provides implications for school reform for improving EL outcomes including bolstering EL expertise in school reform efforts, implementing sustained and in-depth professional development, monitoring and supporting long-term reform efforts, and establishing partnerships and networks to develop, research and disseminate efforts.
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Olsen, Laurie, Kathryn Lindholm-Leary, Magaly Lavadenz, Elvira Armas, and Franca Dell'Olio. Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative: A Three-Year Pilot Study Research Monograph. PROMISE INITIATIVE, February 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.promise2010.

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The Pursuing Regional Opportunities for Mentoring, Innovation, and Success for English Learners (PROMISE) Initiative Research Monograph is comprised of four sub-studies that took place between 2006 and 2009 to examine the effectiveness of the PROMISE Initiative across six implementing counties. Beginning in 2002, the superintendents of the six Southern California County Offices of Education collaborated to examine the pattern of the alarmingly low academic performance of English learners (EL) across Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Riverside, and Ventura. Together, these six counties serve over one million EL students, more than 66% of the total EL population in the state of California, and close to 20% of the EL population in the nation. Data were compiled for the six counties, research on effective programs for ELs was shared, and a common vision for the success of ELs began to emerge. Out of this effort, the PROMISE Initiative was created to uphold a critical vision that ensured that ELs achieved and sustained high levels of proficiency, high levels of academic achievement, sociocultural and multicultural competency, preparation for successful transition to higher education, successful preparation as a 21st century global citizen, and high levels of motivation, confidence, and self-assurance. This report is organized into six chapters: an introductory chapter, four chapters of related studies, and a summary chapter. The four studies were framed around four areas of inquiry: 1) What is the PROMISE model? 2) What does classroom implementation of the PROMISE model look like? 3) What leadership skills do principals at PROMISE schools need to lead transformative education for ELs? 4) What impact did PROMISE have on student learning and participation? Key findings indicate that the PROMISE Initiative: • resulted in positive change for ELs at all levels including achievement gains and narrowing of the gap between ELs and non-ELs • increased use of research-based classroom practices • refined and strengthened plans for ELs at the district-level, and • demonstrated potential to enable infrastructure, partnerships, and communities of practice within and across the six school districts involved. The final chapter of the report provides implications for school reform for improving EL outcomes including bolstering EL expertise in school reform efforts, implementing sustained and in-depth professional development, monitoring and supporting long-term reform efforts, and establishing partnerships and networks to develop, research and disseminate efforts.
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Thomson, Sue. PISA 2018: Australia in Focus Number 1: Academic resilience among Australian students. Australian Council for Educational Research, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37517/978-1-74286-624-6.

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Socioeconomically disadvantaged students (i.e. those whose scores on a constructed measure of social and cultural capital are below a specified cut-off, usually the 25th percentile) have been found to be more likely to drop out of school, repeat a grade, achieve lower levels at senior secondary school, and score lower on tests such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Despite this association between socioeconomic disadvantage and poorer outcomes related to education, a percentage of students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds enjoy success at school. This apparent success despite the odds is of interest to researchers and educators alike – what, if any, characteristics do these academically resilient students share, why might this be and what can we learn from this group of students, however small, that might assist in improving outcomes for all students, regardless of their socioeconomic background?
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Dunn, Linda. An evaluation of the academic success of students who participated in the English for non-native residents program at Portland State University. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.5853.

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McGee, Steven, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lucia Dettori, Andrew M. Rasmussen, Randi Mcgee-Tekula, Jennifer Duck, and Erica Wheeler. An Examination of Factors Correlating with Course Failure in a High School Computer Science Course. The Learning Partnership, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.51420/report.2018.1.

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Across the United States, enrollment in high school computer science (CS) courses is increasing. These increases, however, are not spread evenly across race and gender. CS remains largely an elective class, and fewer than three-fourths of the states allow it to count towards graduation. The Chicago Public Schools has sought to ensure access for all students by recently enacting computer science as a high school graduation requirement. The primary class that fulfills the graduation requirement is Exploring Computer Science (ECS), a high school introductory course and professional development program designed to foster deep engagement through equitable inquiry around CS concepts. The number of students taking CS in the district increased significantly and these increases are distributed equitably across demographic characteristics. With ECS serving as a core class, it becomes critical to ensure success for all students independent of demographic characteristics, as success in the course directly affects a student’s ability to graduate from high school. In this paper, we examine the factors that correlate with student failure in the course. At the student level, attendance and prior general academic performance correlate with passing the class. After controlling for student characteristics, whether or not teachers participated in the professional development program associated with ECS correlates with student success in passing the course. These results provide evidence for the importance of engaging teachers in professional development, in conjunction with requiring a course specifically designed to provide an equitable computer science experience, in order to broaden participation in computing.
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Wroblewski, Angela, and Victoria Englmaier. Absolventinnenbefragung muv. IHS - Institute for Advanced Studies, February 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2017.499.

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Despite some successes, however, there are still barriers for women at universities, which are reflected in the so-called "leaky pipeline", i.e. a decreasing proportion of women the higher their position in the science system. The University of Vienna is also characterised by a pronounced leaky pipeline. The mentoring programme of the University of Vienna - muv - was launched to counteract this development and to support women in entering an academic career. The programme has been continuously evaluated and further developed. This report continues this tradition and provides input for a discussion on the further development of the programme.
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Knight, Ruth, and Kylie Kingston. Gaining feedback from children in The Love of Learning Program. Queensland University of Technology, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.206154.

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This report details both the process undertaken to develop an evaluation instrument that can collect feedback from children in the Love of Learning program and feedback the children have provided. A total of 178 children who are beneficiaries of the program completed the survey, and 91% confirmed the program was positively supporting them. They provided their feedback using a 20-question survey which measured four protective factors that previous research suggests supports children to engage with and enjoy learning, helping them to thrive in school and life. The protective factors are known to foster social, emotional, and academic development and success. There is a strong positive association between these factors, and the results of the survey suggest the Love of Learning program is influencing children's attitude towards learning and school. This report highlights some of the design challenges and complexities when engaging children in participatory evaluation. Importantly, to ensure children are given an opportunity to provide feedback, they must be supported by their foster carer who need to also feel informed and confident to be part of the evaluation process and empower children to speak up. Further research will now be conducted to implement the evaluation process more widely and ascertain if the protective factors improve a child’s health, educational engagement, and performance.
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Kelly, Luke. Humanitarian Considerations in Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR). Institute of Development Studies, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.106.

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This rapid literature review finds that disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) raises a number of humanitarian considerations, centred on the treatment of participants and the unintended consequences of the programmes. In particular, DDR undertaken during conflicts is linked to several protection risks and is difficult to implement in a neutral, equitable and humanitarian manner. By humanitarian concerns, this report means: • Some of the functions undertaken in DDR, • Humanitarian risks to individuals in DDR programmes, • Indirect risks of conflict arising from DDR programmes; DDR is a broad and multi-faceted process involving security, humanitarian and development aspects and actors, with wide-ranging impacts. Humanitarian actors do not undertake DDR, but they may support some DDR processes, and maybe affected by DDR or its effects. According to UN guidance and the academic literature, successful DDR will consider socio-economic conditions in the community, as well as for the ex-combatants. It should be attuned to the range of needs of participants and should abide by relevant international law. The political dynamics of a conflict or post-conflict situation shape the success of DDR. It was first used in post-conflict situations, but the increasing use of DDR in ongoing conflicts creates new difficulties. The failure or partial implementation creates many humanitarian problems. This may arise from a lack of resources; competing authorities (and particularly the co-option of DDR for war aims); ongoing conflict and instability; mistakes in implementation; and socio-economic conditions unconducive to successful reintegration. Unsuccessful DDR may see partially demobilised actors remain dangerous, or may fuel new grievances around the perceived unfairness of granting support to former combatants. There is a large body of evidence on the successes and failures of DDR programmes, how they vary over time and across contexts, and guidance on how to implement DDR. Relatively little refers explicitly to humanitarian concerns, but many of the issues covered can be characterised as humanitarian. DDR has been employed in many situations since the 1980s, meaning that it is not possible to comprehensively survey the guidance or case study evidence. Instead, this review focuses on the main areas where DDR can be said to raise humanitarian concerns, with a particular focus on the problems raised by DDR in ongoing conflicts.
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Khan, Mahreen. Lessons from Adaptive Programming. Institute of Development Studies, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.142.

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The aim of adaptive programming (AP) is to produce adaptive, flexible, iterative, responsive, problem-driven, politically smart, locally led programmes which are effective and efficient and meet donor requirements for accountability. This is a rapid desk review of recent literature on AP including academic and grey sources. Section 2 covers the main challenges and barriers to successful implementation of AP. Key success factors are covered in Section 3. Selecting the appropriate monitoring and evaluation tools such as outcome harvesting or adapted versions of Value for Money to assist in measuring outcomes and embedding learning is key to successful AP, particularly in governance programmes, where results are usually long-term, non-linear and causality can be difficult to specifically trace back to the donor-funded intervention. Section 4 details three case studies from the governance arena as this report was requested to assist in designing adaptive governance programmes. Thus, the State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI) from Nigeria, Chakua Hatua from Tanzania, and Within and Without the State (WWS) from conflict regions are included to show how flexible indicators, donor communication and negotiation, empowering teams and adopting monitoring and evaluation tools assisted in successful AP outcomes in different locations and political contexts. The challenges faced and drawbacks of certain processes were fed into efficient feedback loops fostering cross-communication, adaptation, and modification to ensure procedures and policies were changed accordingly. Sources used are primarily from the previous 5 years, as per K4D norms, unless the work is seminal, such as the ODI Report (2016) Doing Development Differently, which encouraged over 60 countries to sign up for the AP methodology. This review found a substantive body of literature on AP methodology the relative recency of academic attention on AP in the development less evidence is available on case studies of AP in the development sector, as there are not many ongoing projects and even fewer have been completed and results assessed (ICF, 2019). There is also a lack of case studies on how dynamic, empowered, innovative teams successfully apply adaptive programming ideas, particularly providing behavioural insights about such teams (Cooke, 2017) as well as little attention to precipitating and sustaining behaviour change in institutions over the longer term (Power, 2017).
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Price, Roz. Lessons From Livelihood Interventions that Increase the Resilience of Populations to Droughts in Afghanistan and Other FCAS. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), November 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.012.

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Creating and protecting more resilient rural livelihoods is seen as being key to advancing Afghanistan’s development and improving its reslience to climate change impacts, particularly drought. This rapid review draws on policy and programme information from donor and multi-lateral organisations and some academic literature to identify best practices and lessons learned on interventions to support livelihood resilience (to drought) in Afghanistan. Where possible, final project evaluations were utilised. Some broader recommendations and insights are taken from other fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS) and also from resilience and livelihoods interventions in Afghanistan that are not necessarily explicitly linked to dought. This review highlights the prominence of ‘resilience’ in donor interventions, but that there is a continued lack of clarity on how it should be measured or evaluated. This rapid review uses broad search categories and approaches, including database and website searches and snowballing of references. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed iteratively, with abstracts and documents assessed to find the most relevant papers. Donor databases were searched for relevant information. Much of the literature identified through this rapid review is donor-based evaluations of projects in Afghanistan. However, many of these evaluations are mainly concerned with project outputs and issues of implementation and process, particularly those relating to routine project monitoring and evaluation in fragile situations. Less robust information was provided on the success/results, appropriateness and lessons learned from the interventions themselves. . This review shows a breadth of resilience and livelihood programming in Afghanistan, especially aimed at agriculture and livestock. It was not possible to explore all the evidence and evaluations identified; priority was given to systematic reviews of multiple interventions and evaluations with clear lessons on intervention success.
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