Student attrition is the reduction in the student population in a school because of dropouts or transfers. Student attrition has become an important concern for many colleges and universities that has resulted in much research because students who drop out normally suffer from personal disappointments, minimization of career and life goals, and financial setbacks. The research on student attrition or retention has mainly been on the basis of statistical analyses of the variations between dropouts and persisters. One of the main reasons for the analyses is to understand the phenomenon of school drop outs, which was regarded as a major problem in today's society.
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In the last two decades, student attrition rates in both higher and distance learning education have come under increased scrutiny ("Student Attrition in Higher Education," n.d.). Some of the reasons attributed to the recent student attrition rate are political factors and the extensive adoption of…...
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Angelino, L.M., Williams, F.K. & Natvig, D. (2007, July). Strategies to Engage Online Students
"Factors Affecting Student Attrition: An Overview of NCEC Study of Short-term Enrollment in Postsecondary Education." (2003). Research Review. Retrieved from University System Georgia website: http://www.usg.edu/research/pubs/rreview/rev-spr03.pdf
Ferreira, M.M. (2003). Gender Issues Related to Graduate Student Attrition in Two Science
• Feeling lack of control because of too many rules and regulations of white institutions.
• Fitting in at school may fail to be a priority.
• Lack of positive interracial relationships before and during college.
• Lack of parental support.
(Arnold, 1999).
3. Main Factors Affecting etention and Attrition
Many of the central factors affecting retention and attrition have already been discussed above. As was referred to, preparation is a central factor that was found to be significant across demographic boundaries and especially among various ethnic groups. This refers to social, emotional as well as academic preparedness. Academic preparedness is noted in the literature as being of cardinal importance in continuing to the second year of study: "…those students with higher ACT scores were more likely to return for the second year" ( McDaniel and Graham, 2001).
Motivation and high academic goals were also seen as a primary factor in retention and student persistence. Other factors…...
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Arnold a. ( 1999) Retention and Persistence in Postsecondary Education: A
" Gabriel is an employee of a small business and agrees with the results of numerous reports that highlight that irrespective of the increase in the overall opportunities for work, the overall living expenditures, student loans, utilities etc. leaves most graduates in a dire state of (Franke-uta, 2003).
Another Nellie Mae report conducted in 1998 showed that nearly 40% of the graduated lawyers and doctors and 25% of graduates of private institutions were earning far less money than what they owed monthly to the students loan agencies. The report also shows that out of the total graduate lawyers and doctors, nearly 41% paid off 13% of their salaries to the student loan agencies to relieve their debts and all 41% felt like this was a huge weight on their shoulders. This burden was even more obvious on the African-American debtors and low income earners by the end of 2002 (Franke-uta, 2003).
One of the acts in the performance was composed of three African students who performed a traditional African dance. The thirteen-year-old students danced in a manner that was found by the writer of this work to be erotic in nature and contained dance moves that this writer found to be provocative in a sexual context. The clothing worn by the dancers was revealing in nature as well. It entered the mind of the writer of this work that perhaps the conservative environment in which the writer had been reared, or one of a traditional Chinese cultural heritage had biased these thoughts. It was the realization of the writer of this work that in order to win the respect of children in such a culturally diverse environment that the teacher must possess the mindset that allows for removal of any and all bias that one might possess toward other cultures.
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Kimbell, Lucy (nd) Some Ways of Working: Themes Emerging in Artists' Residencies with/in Business. The Arts Council of England.
Williams, Jennifer; Morisette, Ann-Sophie; and Vazquez, Antonio Nolina (2004) Tales of the City - The Experience of REAL Learning. Commissioned by Scottish Enterprise Glasgow 2004.
A change in any one of the factors has to be 'compensated' by changes in the other two" (p. 27). Consequently, the type of instructional practices that may be best suited for one learning venue will likely be unsuitable and therefore ineffective in another setting. The goal, then, is to identify the optimal mix of the three elements to produce instructional practices for each setting (Koehler et al., 2004), and these issues are discussed further below.
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Developing Effective Online Instructional Practices. Unfortunately, many educators may have become overly reliant on one teaching style to the exclusion of other approaches that may be more suitable for a given group of students. Prying busy teachers out of this "comfort zone of teaching" will require careful scrutiny of how these three elements affect teachers new to online learning environments to ensure they are provided with the support and training they need to succeed.…...
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References
Bach, S., Haynews, P. & Smith, J.L. (2007). Online learning and teaching in higher education.
Maidenhead, England: Open University Press.
Badke, W. (2008, May/June). Information literacy and faculty. Online, 32(3), 47-49.
Bressler, L.A., Bressler, M.E. & Bressler, M.S. (2010). The role and relationship of hope, optimism and goal setting in achieving academic success: a study of students enrolled in online accounting courses. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, 14(4), 37-39.
The hardest part of being a student now is the pressure that comes with knowing that this is it. It is like approaching the high dive at the swimming pool. Being a student is like walking the edge of the pool and climbing up the ladder to the diving board. The water is the real world where all you lessons that you have learned in the pool about how to swim, breathe, float and so on, are now going to be put to the test—in a real way. As a student you sometimes forget about this fact because you are so immersed in your studies. You forget to look up over the edge of the book and see that the real world is waiting to see what you are made of. You know that before long you will have to prove yourself by taking flight from the high dive and…...
Sentiment Analysis in EducationIntroductionTeacher effectiveness can be gauged by analysis of student sentiment as communicated in written texts, particularly in social media posts (Misuraca, Forciniti, Scepi & Spano, 2020). Hajirizi and Nuci (2020) state that being able to understand and find out what students like and dont like most about a course, professor, or teaching methodology can be of great importance for the respective institutions (p. 1). For Kwecko et al. (2020), the challenge is to understand the points of convergence and divergence between a set of opinions published on digital networks and their ability to reveal collective intelligences for the management of public policies in Education (p. 2).To overcome that challenge, both Hajirizi and Nuci (2020) and Nikolic, Grljevic and Kovacevic (2020) recommend aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) to help discern student sentiment. The use of ABSA appears to be a major trend in gauging sentiment analysis in education.Sentiment AnalysisMisuraca…...
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References
Hajrizi, R., & Nuçi, K. P. (2020). Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Education Domain. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01429.
Kwecko, V., de Tocirc;ledo, F. P., Devincenzi, S., Ortiz, J. O. D. S., & Botelho, S. S. D. C.
(2020, October). Analysis of the feelings of the population’s opinion in social media: a look at education. In 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-9). IEEE.
Misuraca, M., Forciniti, A., Scepi, G., & Spano, M. (2020). Sentiment Analysis for Education with R: packages, methods and practical applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12840.
Student Smoking Behavior
Given that the health risks of smoking are very well-known, one would think that smoking would be rare behavior among college students. After all, the average college student is not only young enough to have been exposed to anti-smoking education throughout their lifetimes, but might also values education more than their same-age peers who are not students. However, according to the research, young people, including college students, do smoke. In fact, college students may actually smoke more than their peers outside of college. What this suggests is that there is a social factor linked to smoking behavior. As a result, I would expect to be able to observe more students smoking when in social situations than in non-social situations.
Assumptions
I began with three assumptions about smoking behavior. The first assumption was that approximately one-third of observed college students would smoke. The second assumption was that students would be more…...
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References
Levinson, A., Campo, S., Gascoigne, J., Jolly, O., Zakharyan, A., & Vu Tran, Z. (2007).
Smoking, but not smokers: Identity among college students who smoke cigarettes. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 9(8), 845-852.
Schorr, M. (2013, August 13). A third of college students smoke. Retrieved February 5, 2014
Students' ight to Free Speech
The right of student to free speech is a matter that has been debated over years. Where many people claim that students, just like any other group of people, have the right of free speech, others claim that students should know where their limits end. Therefore, at many schools, colleges and universities, the students are provided with a code of conduct that they have to follow. This code of conduct defines rules of speech for the students; to tell them where they have to start speaking and where they should end. These codes have also been controversial in some places.
The right of free speech can be highlighted from the fact that the distinguishing feature between human beings and other creatures is speech. By the freedom of speech, one does not only mean to speak what one feels like speaking, but it means to express one's knowledge…...
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References
Ash, Timonthy Garton (2012). "The basic Principle." Free Speech Debate.
Biskupic, Joan (2007). "High court case tests limits of student speech rights." USA Today. Gannett Company.
Hypothetical Case Study
Subjects
Two students, Jack and Bob, determined as aggressive by their educators and chosen using purposive sampling, made up the participants of the study. The two are, at present, enrolled in a behavioral support classroom setting. Neither has knowingly taken part in any research or been involved with self-monitoring or tactile prompt interventions. Both were enrolled in the very same class, require behavioral support, and suffer from various disabilities.
Setting
The setting of the research was a self-contained classroom, with the two students referred for serious behavioral issues. Both took part in a behavioral support unit-developed token-economy points system. For system maintenance, a fresh point sheet was utilized every day. Individual sheets illustrated frequency measure tables, for how many times each child displayed aggressive conduct. Sessions (of a ten-minute duration for each subject) were conducted in the course of routine scholastic instruction/teaching on regular school days, occurring thrice daily at the…...
There is little doubt that students with special needs require more support services, and the article referenced above adds clarity to that assertion. hat also is true is that often students with disabilities are harassed, made fun of and even bullied because they are "different." An article in The Journal of Counseling & Development refers to emotional abuse that students (not necessarily students with disabilities but rather students that are "different" per se) are subjected to from teachers. This topic is not one that gets a lot of attention, the authors day, but in certain classrooms "…it can be a daily occurrence" (McEachern, et al., 2008, p. 3). Take Jason, he has had a fear of this one particular teacher and while he was "at the peak of his humiliation" because his second period teacher teased him in front of the class about the way he dressed, he finally got…...
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Works Cited
Elbaum, Batya, and Vaughn, Sharon. (2001). School-Based Interventions to Enhance the Self-
Concept of Students with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis. The Elementary School
Journal, 101(3), 303-329.
Letrello, Theresa M., and Miles, Dorothy D. (2003). The Transition from Middle School to High School: Students with and without Learning Disabilities Share Their Perceptions.
Serving students with a full range of abilities and disabilities in the general education class room with appropriate in-class support is how Roach (1995) defines inclusion using this practice. Friend & Bursuck (1996) noted that children with disabilities are considered as full members of the classroom learning community in such setting with their special needs met there. Students with disabilities are helped to establish and maintain social networks and opportunities to be accepted by no disabled peers (Farmer & Farmer, 1996; Kennedy & Itkonen, 1994). Students with severe disabilities developed social networks, positive interpersonal relationships, and friendships with students without disabilities (Hendrickson, Shokoohi-Yekta, Hamre-Nietupski, & Gable, 1996).
Surprisingly, according to authors Cloninger & Giangreco (1995), Harig & Romer (1995), students who are deaf blind or have other severe or multiple disabilities are being educated in general education classes has increased. Sharp, York and Knight (1994) added that the inclusion of students…...
Behrmann, J. (1993). Including everyone. The Executive Educator, 15(12), 16-20.
Bennett, T., Bruns, D. And Deluca, D. (1997). Putting Inclusion into Practice: Perspectives of Teachers and Parents. Exceptional Children, 64.
Bertness, H.J. (1976). Progressive inclusion: The mainstream movement in Tacoma. In M.C. Reynolds (Ed.), Mainstreaming: Origins and implications (pp. 55-58). Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.
Conquering Technology ChallengesAs an educator, I am constantly looking for and at new ways to use technology to empower my students so that they can take ownership of their learning. The integration of technology in the classroom offers immense potential for boosting student engagement and dedication, while also supporting a more personalized learning experience for each student. Thus, there is a lot that can be achieved with new technology. However, these developments are not without their challenges.One significant obstacle in this practice is the varying levels of access to technology among students. In my experience, not all students have equal access to devices or reliable internet at home, which can hinder their ability to engage with digital learning tools outside the classroom. This disparity often reflects broader socio-economic inequalities and poses a challenge to creating an equitable learning environment.Another challenge is maintaining student engagement with educational technology, especially when they…...
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References
Derban, E., & O’Neill, D. K. (2018). Technology disruptions and elementary teachers\\\\\\' problem
solving in an urban Canadian district: A case study. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 50(4), 365-383.
Mingle, T. (2018, November 29). 3 Issues in Technology Integration in the Classroom [Video].
RESEARCH QUESTION PLANBrief BackgroundA fifth-grade child is likely to be ten to eleven years of age in the United States. According to Stapp & Karr (2018), besides differences in the physical realm, fifth graders are different from fourth graders from both a cognitive and social emotional perspective. Fifth grade children are likely to apply math concepts to the real world. At the moment, fifth grade math curriculum consists of numbers and operations, factors and multiples, fractions and operations, multiplication and division of fractions, decimals and their addition and subtraction, percentages and geometry (Grnmo, Lindquist, Arora, & Mullis, 2015).There have been concerns on multiple fronts because fifth grade students have not been doing well in math. Math is a subject that entails solving problems and proper strategies may need to be put in place to ensure that students understand content. The failure of the fifth-grade students may, however, have been triggered…...
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Alshenqeeti, H. (2014). Interviewing as a data collection method: A critical review. English linguistics research, 3(1), 39-45.
Böhme, M., Oliveira, B. C. D. S. & Roychoudhury, A. (2013, August). Regression tests to expose change interaction errors. In Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (pp. 334-344).
Casado, P. & Cutillas, P. R. (2011). A self-validating quantitative mass spectrometry method for assessing the accuracy of high-content phosphoproteomic experiments. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 10(1).
Improve Wellness for Students: Social and Emotional Well-Being Early on in their educational careers, students should receive information about on-campus counseling and also the phone numbers of local organizations outside the school where students can seek out support for specific issues, including depression, stress, substance abuse, and other concerns. This should be accompanied by a self-assessment list for signs of mental health issues, including depression and anxiety. Residence hall advisors should be encouraged to host weekly social events and study breaks to reduce stress and create a sense of community between students. They should also be encouraged to facility once-monthly organized activities such as nature hikes, crafts, or movie nights to encourage students to bond with one another outside of academics. Student groups which address the needs of marginalized groups which suffer disproportionately from mental health concerns, such as women, LGBT+ students, or students with learning challenges should receive additional…...
To develop a thesis statement, the first thing you'll need to do is determine what kind of paper you're writing. It will be either expository (explain something to the reader), argumentative (make and justify a claim), or analytical (break down and evaluate an issue). The type of paper you're writing will affect the content of your thesis statement, which should be very specific. The main issue you'll cover in your paper should be listed in your statement, and should be backed up with proper evidence. Generally, the statement will appear at the very end of the paper's first paragraph. As....
There are four different philosophical approaches in education: idealism, realism, pragmatism, and existentialism. While each of these four philosophical approaches can be seen in parts of modern-day education, realism is probably the most pervasive current philosophical influence.
Realism developed from the teachings of Aristotle and can be thought of as concerning objective facts. While different people may perceive things in various ways, the objective truth of an event does not change. This emphasis on rational thought means that realism underpins much of what we think of as truth.
Realism is reflected in educational approaches that teach critical thinking skills....
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