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Multilevel Factors Affecting College Students' Perceived Knowledge Transferability: From the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory
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Wang, Cong; Zhang, Ying; Moss, Jennifer D.; Bonem, Emily M.; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Promoting students' ability to transfer or apply their knowledge and skills to real-life situations is critical in higher education. The current study was designed to test the likelihood that the constructs based on self-determination theory (SDT) framework help understand college students' perceived knowledge transferability. A total of 3783…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Transfer of Training, Self Determination, Student Motivation
Beyond Traditional Measures of STEM Success: Long-Term Predictors of Social Agency and Conducting Research for Social Change
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Garibay, Juan C. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Despite the importance of preparing socially responsible graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to address the current state of poverty and inequality, very few studies in higher education have examined the development of STEM students' outcomes critical to promoting a more equitable society, typically focusing on…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Predictor Variables, Social Change, Undergraduate Students
Testing the Efficacy of a Scholarship Program for Single Parent, Post-Freshmen, Full Time Undergraduates
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Carpenter, Dick M., II; Kaka, Sarah J.; Tygret, Jennifer A.; Cathcart, Katy – Research in Higher Education, 2018
This study examines the efficacy of a scholarship program designed to assist single parent, post-freshmen, full time undergraduate students and predictors of success among a sample of said students, where success is defined as progress toward completion, academic achievement, and degree completion. Results of fixed effects regression and…
Descriptors: Scholarship, One Parent Family, Undergraduate Students, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
What Matters in Increasing Community College Students' Upward Transfer to the Baccalaureate Degree: Findings from the Beginning Postsecondary Study 2003-2009
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LaSota, Robin R.; Zumeta, William – Research in Higher Education, 2016
This research uses the nationally representative Beginning Postsecondary Study: 2003-2009 to investigate the relative significance in upward transfer of individual and institutional factors for different groups of students, considering their state policy contexts of variable support for improved articulation and transfer between 2-year and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transfer Policy, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, State Policy
A Second Dystopia in Education: Validity Issues in Authentic Assessment Practices
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Hathcoat, John D.; Penn, Jeremy D.; Barnes, Laura L.; Comer, Johnathan C. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
Authentic assessments used in response to accountability demands in higher education face at least two threats to validity. First, a lack of interchangeability between assessment tasks introduces bias when using aggregate-based scores at an institutional level. Second, reliance on written products to capture constructs such as critical thinking…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Accountability, Higher Education, Validity
Layers of Influence: Exploring Institutional- and State-Level Effects on College Student Views toward Access to Public Education for Undocumented Immigrants
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Garibay, Juan C.; Herrera, Felisha A.; Johnston-Guerrero, Marc P.; Garcia, Gina A. – Research in Higher Education, 2016
Providing undocumented immigrants access to public education remains a pertinent issue facing both institutions of higher education and state governments. While instate resident tuition (ISRT) has remained a contentious policy, little is known about how such policies, as well as other state contexts, influence college students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Access to Education, Public Education