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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
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Garett, Renee; Liu, Sam; Young, Sean D. – Journal of American College Health, 2017
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to: (1) examine changes in stress during first semester among freshmen undergraduates and (2) identify predictors of stress (coping strategies, emotional states, and quality of sleep). Participants: One hundred ninety-seven freshmen students were recruited for a 10-week study during first quarter…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Anxiety, College Freshmen, Psychological Patterns
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Sasaki, Miyuki; Mizumoto, Atushi; Murakami, Akira – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This study adopts Oxford's (2017) definition of language learning strategies (LLS) framed by self-regulation theory and explores the longitudinal development in the use of three second language (L2) writing strategies (global planning, local planning, L1-to-L2 translation) by Japanese university students as it interacts with cognitive, affective,…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Second Language Learning, Translation, Japanese
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Tendhar, Chosang; Paretti, Marie C.; Jones, Brett D. – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
This study had three purposes and four hypotheses were tested. Three purposes: (1) To use hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to investigate whether students' perceptions of their engineering career intentions changed over time; (2) To use HLM to test the effects of gender, engineering identification (the degree to which an individual values a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Engineering, Engineering Education, Identification (Psychology)
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Galambos, Nancy L.; Fang, Shichen; Krahn, Harvey J.; Johnson, Matthew D.; Lachman, Margie E. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Happiness is an important indicator of well-being, and little is known about how it changes in the early adult years. We examined trajectories of happiness from early adulthood to midlife in 2 Canadian longitudinal samples: high school seniors followed from ages 18-43 and university seniors followed from ages 23-37. Happiness increased into the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Age Differences, High School Seniors
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Vasilenko, Sara A.; Maas, Megan K.; Lefkowitz, Eva S. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2015
Although sexual behavior is multidimensional, little research has focused on the experience of nonintercourse behaviors for adolescents and emerging adults. This article uses open-ended coded data from a longitudinal study of college students (N = 346; M age = 18.5, 52% female, 27% Hispanic/Latino [HL], 25% non-HL European American, 23% non-HL…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Experience, College Students, Late Adolescents
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Partlo, Margaret; Ampaw, Frim – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2018
Relying heavily on case or regional studies, higher education institutions market the perceived global skills that students acquire from education abroad as a value-added commodity. As industries increase their global reach, understanding the labor market effects of education abroad from a national perspective is necessary and timely. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Regression (Statistics), Business Administration Education
Crisp, Gloria; Reyes, Nicole Alia Salis; Doran, Erin – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2017
This study examines Latina/o students' remedial math needs and outcomes. Data were drawn from a national sample of Latina/o students. Hierarchical generalized linear modeling techniques were used to predict three successful remediation outcomes. Results highlight the importance of providing financial aid and academic support to Latina/o students,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, Remedial Mathematics, Hispanic American Students
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Rockenbach, Alyssa N.; Mayhew, Matthew J. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
Student affairs practitioners and scholars are paying greater attention to issues of religion and spirituality on college campuses. The present study explores the link between campus religious/worldview climate and overall student engagement within a longitudinal sample of 14,517 undergraduates at 134 colleges. When controlling for various student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, World Views, Religion
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Benton, Tom – Educational Research, 2014
Background: This article considers the impact of pupils studying for entry-level qualifications on their intentions of remaining in education. Such qualifications are intended to re-engage young people who are performing below expected levels and give them the opportunity to learn at a pace that suits them. Purpose: This article specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Qualifications, College Entrance Examinations
Iglesias, Kevin W. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study examined the effect that striving behavior has upon an institution's expenditures. While not the first study to examine such effects, it was the first to look across a multitude of institutional types, spanning seven levels of Carnegie classifications and encompassing public and private not-for-profit bachelors-granting schools to…
Descriptors: Reputation, Expenditures, Educational Finance, Public Colleges
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Radey, Melissa – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: In light of increasingly common, non-traditional pathways to college enrollment and potential importance of post-secondary education for family wellbeing, this article examines maternal college enrollment. I employ a sociological application of rational action theory in which costs of reentry, probability of success, and…
Descriptors: Mothers, College Students, Enrollment, Well Being
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Denson, Nida; Park, Julie J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Racial/cultural awareness workshops constitute a salient form of co-curricular diversity engagement in higher education. Although these workshops are generally quite short in duration (often no more than two hours), previous research suggests that workshop participation is associated with undergraduate civic growth. The current study uses…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racial Relations, Cultural Awareness, Workshops
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Lowinger, Robert; Song, Hyun-a – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
This study explored Asian American students' likelihood of selecting STEM over liberal arts or business college majors using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. Student-level variables were the strongest predictors of college major, followed by parent-level variables, and background variables. Academic achievement and interest were the…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, STEM Education, Majors (Students), College Choice
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Schmidt, Susanne; Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga; Fox, Jean-Paul – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2016
Longitudinal research in higher education faces several challenges. Appropriate methods of analyzing competence growth of students are needed to deal with those challenges and thereby obtain valid results. In this article, a pretest-posttest-posttest multivariate multilevel IRT model for repeated measures is introduced which is designed to address…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Item Response Theory
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