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Loes, Chad N. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2022
This paper explores the effect of collaborative learning on academic motivation among students from 17 institutions throughout the United States. Even in the presence of a wide array of potential confounders, collaborative learning exerted a statistically significant and positive influence on students' academic motivation levels across four years…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, National Surveys
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Bigatel, Paula; Edel-Malizia, Stephanie – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2018
Much research on student engagement has recommended a variety of activities and instructor attitudes and behaviors that effectively engage online students such that they are more likely to persist in achieving their educational goals. This study asked online students how often they engaged in research-based effective activities in their courses…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Learner Engagement, Teacher Attitudes, Online Courses
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Wang, Jui-Sheng; Pascarella, Ernest T.; Nelson Laird, Thomas F.; Ribera, Amy K. – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
In this study the authors analyze longitudinal student survey data from the 17-institution Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) to determine the extent that the influence of overall exposure to clear and organized instruction on four-year growth in two measures of cognitive development is mediated by student use of deep approaches…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Classroom Techniques, Instructional Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies
Fraites-Chapes, Casey L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Student engagement is a recognized factor within higher education when understanding student satisfaction, retention, and persistence. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) has been used across the nation since 2000 to measure the engagement behaviors of first year and fourth-year students at four-year institutions. The results of the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Higher Education, Cooperative Learning, Teacher Student Relationship
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Dumford, Amber D.; Cogswell, Cindy A.; Miller, Angie L. – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2016
Learning strategies have been shown to be an important part of success in the classroom, but little research exists that examines differences across major fields concerning the use and faculty emphasis of learning strategies. This study uses data from the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement to explore…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, National Surveys, Learner Engagement, Student Surveys
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Alvarez-Bell, Rosa M.; Wirtz, Derrick; Bian, Hui – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2017
When implementing innovative teaching techniques, instructors often seek to gauge the success of their methods. Proposing one approach to assessing classroom innovation, this study examines the ability of students' ratings of engagement and instructional practices to predict their learning in a cooperative (team-based) framework. After identifying…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Practices, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
Miller, Kelly Burnley – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The focus of this research is in the area of student engagement and character at schools affiliated with the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities. As the researcher, I specifically used a data set purchased from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Such a study is important in order to test my hypothesis that the more engaged a…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Personality, Church Related Colleges, Christianity
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Lovik, Eric G. – Journal of College and Character, 2011
The researcher analyzed National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data for over 7,000 first-year students at nearly 450 institutions to examine the impacts on spiritual development. International, Asian, and first generation students reported gains in spirituality. Participating in worshipful activities, engaging in service learning and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Institutional Mission, Service Learning
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Lundberg, Carol A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
A national sample of 647 Native American students who took the National Survey of Student Engagement was used to test a path model to predict learning for Native American students. Institutional support for students' success and a positive interpersonal environment contributed both to engagement and learning. Support for student success was the…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Institutional Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship, Learning
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Lundberg, Carol A.; Lowe, Shelly C. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
With a national sample of 700 Native American students who took the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), this study tested the ways faculty interaction and inclusion of diverse perspectives in the classroom contributed to learning for Native American students. Significant predictors of learning were quality academic advising, faculty…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Learner Engagement, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
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Lane, Forrest C.; Martin, Georgianna L.; Thompson, Ken – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2015
Transfer students make up a significant portion of the student body in higher education today; yet, representation of their college experiences and outcomes in the literature seems sparse. This study explored transfer students to determine whether their level of engagement and belonging in college was related to their academic motivation. We…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Student Motivation, Sense of Community, Achievement Need
Yu, Winnie Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In recent years, access to higher education was greatly improved through public funding. This improvement is not matched by a similar increase in graduation rate. The purpose of this study is to examine what postsecondary institutions can do to improve college freshman retention. The conceptual framework was based on research on college student…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Pilot Projects, Comparative Analysis
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Lundberg, Carol A.; Sheridan, Dennis – College Teaching, 2015
Using a sample of 812 students who were enrolled exclusively in online courses, this study investigated the extent to which engagement in various elements of the college experience contributed to their learning. A supportive learning environment was the strongest predictor of learning in all three domains measured in the study. Faculty feedback…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Investigations, Educational Environment
Liu, Richard – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2010
Since Summerskill's study on college attrition forty years ago, the interest in this topic has never waned. This study was particularly interested in the relationship of race to retention. Various theoretical frames of references have been proposed: Price's organization theory, Durkheim's Suicide, and Marx's Alienation have been used to guide…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Alienation, Predictor Variables
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Beachboard, Martine Robinson; Beachboard, John C.; Li, Wenling; Adkison, Stephen R. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
This study examines whether feelings of relatedness constitute a substantial means by which learning communities (cohorts) improve learning outcomes in higher education. It applies Ryan and Deci's Self-Determination Theory to an analysis of the National Survey of Student Engagement. The SDT hypothesizes that environments that support perceptions…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Critical Thinking
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