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Direct linkDeOnte T. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examined how personal, behavioral and environmental factors influenced educational outcomes of Black collegians at predominately white institutions in the south. Specifically, 11 institutions are represented in this study from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Race, Outcomes of Education
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Download full textMbawuni, Joseph; Nimako, Simon Gyasi – World Journal of Education, 2015
This study principally investigates job-related and personality factors that determine Ghanaian accounting students' intentions to pursue careers in accounting. It draws on a rich body of existing literature to develop a research model. Primary data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of 516 final year accounting students in a Ghanaian…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Accounting, Undergraduate Students
Adedokun, Omolola A.; Bessenbacher, Ann B.; Parker, Loran C.; Kirkham, Lisa L.; Burgess, Wilella D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Positive student outcomes of undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been well documented, however, many studies have neglected the logical relationship among outcomes, the processes through which they are achieved, and the contextual and participant factors at play in UREs. This study uses structural equation modeling to explore these…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Structural Equation Models
Tight, Malcom, Ed.; Huisman, Jeroen, Ed. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2013
"Theory and Method in Higher Education Research" contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education. Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research
Heimler, Ronald – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to empirically examine college graduate, faculty, and human resource manager descriptions of needed, received, and further training in eight employability dimensions of literacy and numeracy, critical thinking, management, leadership, interpersonal, information technology, systems thinking skills, and work ethic…
Descriptors: Careers, Employment Potential, Structural Equation Models, Job Performance
Glynn, Shawn M.; Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Brickman, Peggy – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
A theoretical model of nonscience majors' motivation to learn science was tested by surveying 369 students in a large-enrollment college science course that satisfies a core curriculum requirement. Based on a social-cognitive framework, motivation to learn science was conceptualized as having both cognitive and affective influences that foster…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, College Science, Careers, Structural Equation Models
