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Heather A. Dalal; Arthur Taylor; Sharon Whitfield – College & Research Libraries, 2025
Generation Z has come of age in a world inundated with an immediate and constant flow of information from a variety of sources. This information is usually uncurated, unverified, and presented in ways that make it difficult to discern the source and the veracity of the information. While previous generations had access to similar information, it…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Attitudes, College Students, Generational Differences
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Reysen, Rebekah H.; Degges-White, Suzanne; Reysen, Matthew B. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among academic entitlement, life satisfaction, and academic performance as measured by cumulative grade point average. When comparing academically at-risk versus non-at-risk college students, academically at-risk students scored significantly lower on satisfaction with life than their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Life Satisfaction
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Koh, Jinyoung; Farruggia, Susan P.; Back, Lindsey T.; Han, Cheon-woo – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
This study examines whether self-efficacy predicted academic success (via self-regulation) for first-generation and continuing-generation college students (Model 1) and among various racial/ethnic groups (Model 2). The 3,316 ethnically diverse incoming freshmen from a large, urban, public university (53% first-generation) participated in this…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Self Efficacy, Success, Self Management
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Granitz, Neil; Kohli, Chiranjeev; Lancellotti, Matthew P. – Journal of Education for Business, 2021
A case study is used to achieve two research objectives: To understand students' attitudes, behavior toward, and satisfaction with videobooks vs. traditional textbooks; and to identify factors that drive student satisfaction and positive attitudes toward videobooks. Analysis of student experiences across multiple sections of an introductory…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Video Technology, Learner Engagement, Positive Attitudes
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Jones, Emily J.; Schreier, Hannah M. C. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To examine prospective associations between physical and mental self-rated health (SRH), college generation status and college adjustment among first-year college students. Participants and methods: Eighty-seven first-year college students (41 first-generation college students) reported their SRH when starting college, and then,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Physical Health
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Jiang, Su; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Math and science motivational beliefs are essential in understanding students' science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) achievement and choices in high school and college. Drawing on the Eccles' expectancy-value theory and Arnett's emerging adulthood framework, this study examined the relations among high school students' motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Generational Differences
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Hernandez, Edwin; Suárez-Orozco, Carola; Cerda, Janet; Osei-Twumasi, Olivia; Corral, Monique; Garcia, Yuliana; Katsiaficas, Dalal; Ruedas-Gracia, Nidia – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background: Immigrant-origin students are the fastest growing new population in community colleges, making up nearly a third of the community college population. To date, little is known about how immigrant-origin students make use of their time on community college campuses. Purpose: This study sought to understand in what ways and to what extent…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Immigrants, Time Management
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Elias, Rafik Z. – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Cheating is an epidemic in higher education. The author examined the psychological variable of academic entitlement and its relationship with the ethical perception of cheating using a sample of business students. Contrary to some previous research, the author found that millennials were only slightly more academically entitled than students from…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Cheating, Ethics