As states develop plans to address direct service workforce (DSW) issues, many states are interested in examples of efforts that have demonstrated positive impacts on recruitment, retention, and quality of services. The DSW Resource Center developed this resource in response to requests for information on what works, what doesn’t, and research gaps. It summarizes key findings from several natio...

Almost one half of U.S. students receiving B.S. and M.S. science degrees attend community colleges during their academic careers, yet for the large majority of community college students in the sciences, a four-year degree in a STEM discipline remains an unrealized goal. The authors describe methods intended to improve student learning, retention, and graduation rates of community college stude...

According to Oxford (1990), strategies are steps taken by students to enhance their own learning. This research attempted to investigate the impact of teaching vocabulary learning strategies on short-term and long-term retention of vocabulary items. The sample participants included 303 females randomly selected from one all-female governmental Pre-university school (PUC) in Iran. They were then...

AANA Journal/February 2007/Vol. 75, No. 1 13 Many factors have led to the current nursing and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) faculty shortage. These shortages need to be addressed with the development of strategies to attract high quality nurse anesthesia faculty and facilitate success in academic positions. As part of its strategic plan, the 2005-2006 AANA Education Committee ad...

Four categorized lists were presented for a single study and test trial. Form of retention test (recognition, cued recall, or free recall) for Lists 1-3 was factorially combined with that of List 4. Learning to learn was evident only for cued recall and improvement in that condition was primarily due to an increase in the number of items per category recalled. Effects in Test 4 performance prov...

PROBLEM Retaining physicians in remote settings can be challenging owing to the heavy workload and harsh environmental conditions and to the lack of opportunities for professional development. In Norway, poor physician distribution between urban and rural areas has been persistent, particularly in the north, where in 1997 a total of 28% of the primary care physician positions were vacant. APP...

Nanoparticles (NPs) with diverse functionalities are widely used in tumor diagnostic and therapeutic. However, the therapeutic efficiency is unsatisfactory because of limited penetration depth as well short retention time a solid tumor, resulting inaccessibility NPs low treatment efficiency. Therefore, it extreme vital significance to design for simultaneously realizing deep long retention. Con...

INTRODUCTION The successful recruitment and retention of participants is integral to the translation of research findings. We examined the recruitment and retention rates of racial/ethnic minority adolescents at a center involved in the National Institutes of Health Obesity Research for Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) initiative by the 3 recruitment strategies used: clinic, informatics, ...

Customer retention, or repurchase, is one of the main factors that help to create and maintain the competitiveness and sustainability of an organization. With the proliferation of B2C electronic commerce, retention has become even more important to Internet merchants who sell online, where customers are provided with a wide variety of choices and competition is globally severe. As opposed to pa...