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Jana Korecková; Radek Kovács; František Ochrana – Cogent Education, 2023
The article focuses on the hitherto unresearched impact of nudging on the successful completion of HEIs studies. The aim of the study is to find out how HEIs students accept different forms of nudging and how individual forms of nudging can contribute to the successful completion of studies. The explanatory paradigm is anchored in nudge theory.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Educational Strategies
John S. Windley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study determined the differences in CTE stakeholders' transferable skills, inter-stakeholder collaboration, and career-minded outcomes. Differing perceptions were identified between stakeholder groups concerning collaborative efforts and career-minded benefits, but not transferred skills. Program graduates are capable of sustaining equipment…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Stakeholders, Coordination, Transfer of Training
Ashley Donaldson Burle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global event that disrupted higher education learning environments in unique ways. This study explored the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate students' academic progress in higher education at Saint Louis University. The outcomes of interest were four-year cumulative grade point average…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement
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Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi; Andrews, Georgina – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the low placement participation rate among international students compared with UK students, by examining the impact of individual factors such as gender and domicile and academic achievement such as prior academic qualification, prior academic results and subsequent academic results on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Foreign Students, Student Participation
O'Leary, Brian P. – Education Canada, 2010
In Manitoba's Seven Oaks School Division, all 3,000 high school students have a teacher advisor who spends an hour a week with them throughout their four years in high school, knows them as individuals, knows their families, and acts as an academic and life coach. Advisors help students complete their first high school course registration and they…
Descriptors: High Schools, Ceremonies, Graduation, Foreign Countries
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Ackerman, Phillip L.; Kanfer, Ruth; Beier, Margaret E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Prediction of academic success at postsecondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, especially of 1st-year college grades, yet a large amount of individual-differences variance remains unaccounted for.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Educational Psychology
Carr, Sarah – Education Writers Association, 2013
Many education reporters are drawn to the beat because of its complexity and rich variety. Few topics provide such a wealth of political, business, human interest, breaking news, feature, and investigative stories. A reporter's day can start in a classroom with 4-year-olds struggling to learn to read, and end at a school board meeting with…
Descriptors: Ethics, Standards, Journalism, Guides
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DesJardins, Stephen L.; Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – Economics of Education Review, 2006
We present a multiple spells-competing risks model of stopout, dropout, reenrollment, and graduation behavior. We find that students who experience an initial stopout are more likely to experience subsequent stopouts (occurrence dependence) and are less likely to graduate. We also find evidence of the impact of the length of an initial spell on…
Descriptors: Stopouts, Student Behavior, Race, Individual Differences