This non-experimental, mixed methods study was completed to determine the effects of Persist Nashville on college students’ self-reported persistence as well as their perceptions of the effectiveness of the services that the participants used. The purpose of this study was to al…
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`Active Ageing' has been promoted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a strategy for promoting the health and well-being of older people. Keeping active and involved in a range of activities not restricted to those associated with labour market participation may, it has be…
Informed by a sociological approach, this thesis provides an account of the theoretical and empirical context of pharmacy students' undergraduate careers, beginning with the decision to enter higher education and ending with the final undergraduate year of a pharmacy student's e…
Even before the passage of Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, the demand for special education teachers in America’s public schools has been greater than the supply (Thornton, Peltier, & Medina, 2007). Today, researchers, policy makers, and…
After evaluating a series of sociolinguistic interviews and translation exercises conducted among the Spanish-speaking Sephardic community in Istanbul, Turkey, I examine the morphological and syntactic changes present across several generations of informants (ages 19-95). The st…
With an active war ongoing for nearly thirteen years, the nation has been experiencing hundreds of thousands of returning solders as a result of the military drawdown of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The intent of this research study was to understand the effectiveness of un…
This study investigated academic advising and retention in a Gulf-Arab university. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered in order to understand how academic advising could have potentially contributed to the improvement of student retention. The focus of the study was …
Purpose and rationale: In 2012, an estimated 9,500 infants in Ethiopia were born with HIV. Mortality for these infants is high, and preventing infection offers the best hope for reducing the childhood death rates. Effective measures exist which can reduce the likelihood of a chi…
Informed by a sociological approach, this thesis provides an account of the theoretical and empirical context of pharmacy students' undergraduate careers, beginning with the decision to enter higher education and ending with the final undergraduate year of a pharmacy student's e…
Youth behavior problems have increased in prevalence in Scandinavian countries. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) has been shown to be an effective intervention across diverse populations and international contexts. The current study examines the effectiveness of FFT within a Dani…
One solution to chronic teacher shortages has been to hire alternatively certified teachers who arrive in the classroom lacking critical trainings in methodology and pre-service student teaching. The problem addressed was the high rate of attrition for alternatively trained teac…
This mixed methods study shed light on the issue of attrition within Catholic education and points to opportunities for leaders to improve the effectiveness of elementary and secondary schools as well as identify barriers impacting access to poor and vulnerable populations. The …
Premature termination of psychological care is common among individuals seeking mental health treatment. Individuals who terminate treatment early are often those with ongoing psychological distress, and these clients tend to have similar outcomes to those who never initiated tr…
This qualitative phenomenological research is seeking to determine why young adult Orthodox Jews are leaving Orthodoxy. This is the focus of the research and the main research question. This study focuses on the lived experiences of those who have chosen attrition from an Orthod…
Early teacher attrition has been a problem for American secondary schools for decades. With raising student enrollment and high fiscal costs to train new teachers, determining value-added approaches to secondary early teacher retention is critical for schools to ensure a quality…