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Stitzel, Shannon; Raje, Sonali – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
There has been considerable research on potential academic factors that can predict success in college introductory science courses. In order to support high success rates for students, some institutions across the country have implemented diagnostic tests to determine which students are eligible to take introductory chemistry classes. These tests…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Access to Information, Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses
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Leyretana, Kaela; Trinidad, Jose Eos – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Although there has been a rich amount of research about lifelong learning providing benefits such as economic advancement and personal fulfillment, less is known about factors that increase or decrease a person's likelihood of pursuing it. Nonetheless, knowing these predictors and barriers can have practical consequences on encouraging people to…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Lifelong Learning, Attitudes, Barriers
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Abdelmohsen Hamed Okela – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2024
The pervasive adoption of online learning in educational systems worldwide has resulted in delivering this learning to digital natives, today's university students. In this context, it is crucial to acknowledge the significance of students' satisfaction in determining the success or failure of online learning. This study examines the impact of the…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Mass Media Role, Electronic Learning, Student Satisfaction
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Amalia E. Maulana; Paul G. Patterson; Arif Satria; Indry A. Pradipta – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
This study proposes a new giving behavior model for higher education institutions (HEI), featuring alumni connectedness as a primary predictor. This contrasts with previous studies that measured variables that showed an inconsistent influence as predictors of alumni's desire to contribute. Alumni connectedness, built from socio-psychological…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Alumni, Donors, Predictor Variables
Yolanda Alvarez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem this study addressed involves how college students since the year 2020 in the U.S. have been negotiating romance, dating, and sexual relationships in the unique historical period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Further, this study addressed the problem of needing to determine how the pandemic may have disrupted college students' intimate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Students, Dating (Social)
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Jiang, Weiwei; Ha, Louisa – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
China has a conservative sex culture and does not include contraception as part of its sex education curriculum. As a result, young people tend to search for sex information online. How college students seek contraception information, by what means, and the factors affecting their information seeking are poorly understood. To better understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Contraception, Access to Information
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Tolulope, Akano – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2017
Libraries before the 21st century carried out daily routine library task such as cataloguing and classification, acquisition, reference services etc using manual procedures only but the advent of Information Technology as transformed these routine task that libraries can now automate their activities by deploying the use of library software in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Demography, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Yin-Fah, Benjamin Chan; Sok-Foon, Yeoh; Migin, Melissa W. – International Education Studies, 2016
University can be an exciting yet challenging transition for students. Many universities provide counselling services to students who need it during their tertiary studies but many students tend to avoid counselling. This study was conducted to identify the counselling service experience among undergraduate students. The emphasis was on the past…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Counseling Services, Private Colleges, Undergraduate Students
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Guy, Richard,; Byrne, Bruce; Dobos, Marian – Advances in Physiology Education, 2018
Anatomy and physiology interactive video clips were introduced into a blended learning environment, as an optional resource, and were accessed by ~50% of the cohort. Student feedback indicated that clips were engaging, assisted understanding of course content, and provided lecture support. Students could also access two other optional online…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Blended Learning, Video Technology
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Mao, Ching-Hua – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2017
Regression analysis using 633 Taiwanese college students revealed that only maternal support had a significant predictive effect on the developmental indecision of male and female college students; furthermore, neither paternal nor maternal support had a significant predictive effect on the indecisiveness of male and female college students. For…
Descriptors: Fathers, Mothers, Parent Influence, Parent Child Relationship
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Sadik, Alaa – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Students' perceptions about both ease of use and usefulness are fundamental factors in determining their acceptance and successful use of technology in higher education. File sharing systems are one of these technologies and can be used to manage and deliver course materials and coordinate virtual teams. The aim of this study is to explore how…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Shared Resources and Services, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Hoag, Anne; Grant, August E.; Carpenter, Serena – NACADA Journal, 2017
Popular and news media sources may play a key role in influencing undergraduate choice of major, yet their unique impact has not been investigated. Most research has focused on the influence of unmediated salient referents, such as parents, on students' major choices. Therefore, we developed a scale to examine the role of media professionals and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys, News Media, Majors (Students)
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Fynn, Angelo – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The prediction and classification of student performance has always been a central concern within higher education institutions. It is therefore natural for higher education institutions to harvest and analyse student data to inform decisions on education provision in resource constrained South African environments. One of the drivers for the use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Data Collection
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Çam, Emre; Kiyici, Mübin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
The aim of the quantitative study is to identify the digital literacy levels of prospective teachers in terms of several variables. The sample consisted of 354 prospective teachers studying in different departments of Sakarya University College of Education. The 30-item instrument used to gather the data was the "Digital Literacy Scale"…
Descriptors: Literacy, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Atherton, Mirella; Shah, Mahsood; Vazquez, Jenny; Griffiths, Zoe; Jackson, Brian; Burgess, Catherine – Open Learning, 2017
Curriculum design, teaching methods, assessments and range of academic support need to be inclusive in Open Access Enabling courses. The findings of this study confirm a correlation between student access to online learning materials and a positive impact on grades in science courses. More specifically, students who frequently use the online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Educational Research, Data Collection
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