Students, Transitions, Achievement, Retention, Success: STARS Invited Panel

Improving student retention and achievement

The Effects of Social Networks on Nursing Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Learning English

Introduction: The use of modern virtual technologies in the process of teaching-learning is inevitable. One example is the use of virtual social networks in education. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of social networking on nursing students’ academic achievement and retention in learning English. Methods: The pretest-posttest design with a control group was used in this qua...

Invited commentary: panel reviews of trauma mortality.

It is not surprising that surgeons were the first group of physicians to publish their mortality results or disease categories. When a surgeon intervenes in a disease process the results are immediate and definitive. In contrast, in internal medicine, the physician primarily intervenes in chronic diseases with pharmaceutical agents and the results are relatively nonspecific. The surgeon must im...

Smoothing out transitions: how pedagogy influences medical students' achievement of self-regulated learning goals.

Medical school is an academic and developmental path toward a professional life demanding self-regulation and self-education. Thus, many medical schools include in their goals for medical student education their graduates' ability to self-assess and self-regulate their education upon graduation and throughout their professional lives. This study explores links between medical students' use of s...

Female Retention and Success in CS 1 RUNNING HEAD: FEMALE RETENTION AND SUCCESS IN CS Improving The Retention and Success Rates of Female Students in Computer Science Through The Alice and Media Computation Course