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The life stories of former community college agriculture reentry students: a narrative inquiry of self-efficacy

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dc.contributor.authorDutto, Laurence S., author
dc.contributor.authorHarbour, Clifford P., advisor
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T19:26:13Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T19:26:13Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry was to identify agriculture reentry students and to understand and interpret their life stories in relation to the concept of self-efficacy. In so doing, I was able to determine the role of self-efficacy in their decisions to become community college reentry students. My interviews of my participants were in-depth, private, individual, open-ended, and face-to-face. I was able to identify emerging themes from my participants' stories by using a system of cross-case matrix analysis. I reported my research findings using a narrative inquiry methodology that allowed the individual and collective voices of my participants' life stories to be clearly expressed and heard. During the interpretation of my data, I found a correlation between my participants' level of self-efficacy as it related to their decision to become community college reentry students. In particular, I found the self-efficacy construct of motivation played an important role in guiding them toward their academic achievement. I was able to connect my participants' stories to the literature on self-efficacy and this deepened my understanding of their experience as community college re-entry students. This research will assist community college researchers and practitioners in understanding the role of self-efficacy in the academic achievement of reentry students at public two-year institutions. It also provided me with a basis to make recommendations for further research and improvements to practice.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierETDF_Dutto_2008_3346479.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237700
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectcommunity colleges
dc.subjectcritical incidents
dc.subjectnarrative inquiry
dc.subjectreentry students
dc.subjectself-efficacy
dc.subjectcommunity college education
dc.subjectagricultural education
dc.subjectinquiry method
dc.titleThe life stories of former community college agriculture reentry students: a narrative inquiry of self-efficacy
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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