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Afghani, Amani Abdulaziz – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This study aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Blackboard E-learning management system used in distance education programs at Taibah University in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. The study takes a descriptive approach, employing several survey tools to acquire data on various aspects of the e-learning experience from the point of view of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, College Students, Females
Tandberg, David A.; Hillman, Nichola; Barakat, Mohamed – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Community colleges are central to the United States' college completion goals. A popular strategy pushed by a number of influential policy organizations and foundations is a policy of tying state funding to community college completions, otherwise known simply as performance funding. This is happening despite little to no…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Funding Formulas, Community Colleges, State Aid
Schmidt, Kari – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2012
In this column, the author discusses how the management of e-books has introduced, at many libraries and in varying degrees, the challenges of maintaining effective technical services workflows. Four different e-book workflows are identified and explored, and the author takes a closer look at how particular variables for each are affected, such as…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Services, Innovation, Predictor Variables
Solomonson, William L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
This study seeks to improve the contributions of performance consultants, instructional design consultants, and training consultants by explaining the effect that several variables have on trust as a mediator to relationship commitment within the context of the client-consultant relationship. The participants were 228 college students from two…
Descriptors: Consultants, Instructional Design, Trust (Psychology), Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Ann Marie Wilkinson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Students with disabilities are faced with overwhelming challenges as they transition from high school to postsecondary education, careers, and independent living. Legislation has mandated that schools provide services for students with disabilities to prepare them for these transitions into adult life (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act,…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, High School Students
Windham, Melissa H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although close to half of all community college students leave before obtaining their stated goals, most retention studies are still being conducted at the four-year college and university level. There is still little research conducted at the community college level. In order to determine what student characteristics increase community college…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence
Hollifield-Hoyle, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Poverty in the US is growing at an alarming rate. The current economic climate demands higher education to embrace the economic diversity of all students and to prepare them, regardless of economic class, for a globally competitive workplace. Unfortunately, the higher education community is not as adept at serving low-income students, as it is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Interviews, Poverty
Tatum, Holly; Schwartz, Beth M. – Theory Into Practice, 2017
Although there is evidence of cheating at all levels of education, institutions often do not implement or design integrity policies, such as honor codes, to prevent and adjudicate academic dishonesty. Further, faculty members rarely discuss academic integrity expectations or policies with their students. When cheating does occur, faculty members…
Descriptors: Integrity, Evidence Based Practice, Program Improvement, Ethics
Henry, Gary T.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Thompson, Charles L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2010
Evaluating the impacts of public school funding on student achievement has been an important objective for informing education policymaking but fraught with data and methodological limitations. Findings from prior research have been mixed at best, leaving policymakers with little advice about the benefits of allocating public resources to schools…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Regression (Statistics)
Scaling Student Success with Predictive Analytics: Reflections after Four Years in the Data Trenches
Wagner, Ellen; Longanecker, David – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
The metrics used in the US to track students do not include adults and part-time students. This has led to the development of a massive data initiative--the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) framework--that uses predictive analytics to trace the progress of all types of students in the system. This development has allowed actionable,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Reflection, Academic Achievement, Models
McElroy, Doug; Cobb, Robert – Planning and Changing, 2010
Using data from a self-report survey of juniors and seniors, we document statistically significant growth of a student engagement culture on our campus after a three year period following implementation of an institutional Quality Enhancement Plan. Twenty-three of 45 individual variables, scores on four of 10 multivariate engagement factors, and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Multivariate Analysis, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
Topper, Amy; Lee, John – Achieving the Dream, 2010
Using data from Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, this issue of "Data Notes" looks at three-year enrollment and attainment outcomes of students who persist through their first year. Additionally, first-year persisters (FYPs) were grouped based on the interaction of several student characteristics; analysis was conducted to…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Academic Persistence, Interaction, Enrollment
Fong, Kristen E.; Melguizo, Tatiana; Prather, George – Research in Higher Education, 2015
This study tracks students' progression through developmental math sequences and defines progression as both attempting and passing each level of the sequence. A model of successful progression in developmental education was built utilizing individual-, institutional-, and developmental math-level factors. Employing step-wise logistic regression…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Program Improvement, Sequential Approach
De LaGarza, Thomas R.; Manuel, Marcus A.; Wood, J. Luke; Harris, Frank, III – Community College Enterprise, 2016
Few quantitative studies exist on veteran success in postsecondary education, and existing qualitative research has also not accurately identified factors related to veteran achievement or pathways to success in postsecondary education. In this article, the Community College Survey of Men (CCSM) evaluates predictors of student success for…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Veterans, Academic Achievement, Community Colleges
Turner, Haley C.; Bliss, Stacy L.; Hautau, Briana; Carroll, Erin; Jaspers, Kathryn E.; Williams, Robert L. – Journal of General Education, 2006
Although past research indicates that giving brief quizzes, administered either regularly or randomly, may lead to improvement in students' performance on major exams, negligible research has targeted daily writing activities that require the processing of course information at a deeper level than might result from simply reading course materials…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Predictor Variables, Multiple Choice Tests, Enrichment Activities
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