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Assignment: Explore Your Area of Interest

For this assignment, choose one topic of interest to you related to your degree program (Note: The topic I have selected is: At Risk Students in Higher Education). Then, explore available scholarly peer-reviewed resources using at least three of the following databases. 

1. EBSCOhost (link: http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.proxy1.ncu.edu/ehost/search/advanced?sid=88da6ce2-8849-40c4-9bc5-22d7525c0364%40sessionmgr4007&vid=0&hid=4213)

  EBSCOhost Education Research Complete

  EBSCOhost SPORTDiscus

2. ProQuest (link: http://search.proquest.com.proxy1.ncu.edu/advanced)

ProQuest Education Journals

3. Sage Journals Online (link: http://online.sagepub.com.proxy1.ncu.edu/search)

4. Gale Academic OneFile (link: http://go.galegroup.com.proxy1.ncu.edu/ps/start.do?p=AONE&u=pres1571)

5. Springer Link (link: http://link.springer.com.proxy1.ncu.edu/advanced-search)

(Note: the link will bring you to NCU’s login page first then after you enter my login information it will direct you to the proper sites. I will message my login information to you.)

As noted in this Week’s Introduction, the use of peer-reviewed articles is important to you as a researcher.Find five peer-reviewed scholarly research articles in your area of interest. Use key words and search limiters to focus your searches. Next, write a short paper covering the following topics (you can use first person). Include an APA style References section with the five resources you found; list them according to APA formatting requirements.

  • Describe your topic of interest and why it is important to you.
  • What are “key words” and how do they help with searches?
    • What key words did you use for your searches?
  • What are “search limiters” and how do they help with searches?
    • What search limiters did you use for your searches?
  • What does “peer reviewed” mean Why is it important to conduct research?
  • Comment on what you learned from two of the suggested NCU Library resources?
  • Complete the Reference section per APA Style. 

Length: 2-4 pages, not including title page and reference page

References: Five resources from the search exercise

Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts that are presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. 


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Running Head: AT RISK STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION


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AT RISK STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
At Risk Students in Higher Education
Introduction
‘At-Risk’ is a term which is used to describe a group of students or individual students
who are regarded to be having a higher possibility of dropping out of school or failing in their
academic work (Jocius, 2016). The ‘At-risk’ students experience circumstances which can
compromise their ability to finish their schooling. The examples of these cases include teenage
pregnancy, domestic violence, incarceration, homelessness, detrimental health issues, and
transiency. The students may also be experiencing academic problems like grade retentions,
learning disabilities, disciplinary problems, low test scores, among other factors related to
learning (Tuck, 2013). The educational attainment and performance of the ‘At-risk’ students are
often affected negatively because their education is disrupted by some of the factors named
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