assessment. Other trends include the ability of dual credit programs to promote equity through the promotion of minority students in higher education and to increase the representation of minority students and faculty in institutes of higher learning. The literature, particularly focused on Hawaii, shows how some dual credit programs may be failing to reach objectives due to a lack of supports for students during their critical transition from high school to university. Implications for future research are also covered in the literature. Major trends in the literature are as follows.
General Support for Dual Credit Programs
The literature overall indicates “strong support” for dual credit programs since… Continue Reading...
from achieving equitability in education. The impact of diversity on this problem is that, as Ferrer et al. (2015) point out, minority students tend to be the ones who suffer most from the achievement gap.
The purpose of this study is to test the recommendation of Moses and Kelly (2018) to see if by promoting and socializing reading in a positive and consistent manner over the course of the first grade year all students, regardless of their ethnic or socio-economic background can adopt positive views of reading, establish favorite authors and types of books, choose reading as a the preferred way to recreate as opposed to other activities, make reading part… Continue Reading...
of internally assessing performance as in whether or not enrollments of minority students went up since five years ago or whether revenues have increased since the implementation of a new marketing strategy. Benchmarking is about comparing those specific performance outcomes with those in other companies or organizations that are recognized as industry leaders or top competitors. There is no use benchmarking against lower performers, because the goal of benchmarking is to reach the status of industry leader or to maintain status as industry leader.
In any workplace environment, benchmarking can be used for improving human resources and organizational culture. For example,… Continue Reading...
