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To See the World or Stay at Home: Applying an Integrated Student Choice Model to Explore the Gender Gap in the Intent to Study Abroad
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Salisbury, Mark H.; Paulsen, Michael B.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Research in Higher Education, 2010
Although interest in study abroad has grown consistently in recent decades, study abroad professionals and higher education scholars have been unable to explain or rectify the long-standing gender gap in study abroad participation. This study applies an integrated model of the student-choice construct to explore differences between male and female…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Gender Differences, Student Participation, Cultural Capital
The Development of Process Indicators To Estimate Student Gains Associated with Good Practices in Undergraduate Education.
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Kuh, George D.; Pace, C. Robert; Vesper, Nick – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A study investigated indicators of student academic performance in six samples (n=911 each) of men and women students from 19 baccalaureate, 27 master's, and 29 doctoral granting institutions. Measures of achievement gains associated with three good educational practices (faculty-student contact, cooperation among students, active learning) were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Active Learning, Classroom Techniques