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Expectancy-Value Model: Investigating Academic Success and Retention Predictors of First-Year STEM Majors
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Findlater, Nickcoy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The gap in supply (i.e., shortage) and demand of the STEM workforce have prompted extensive research on identifying factors that predict STEM outcomes and retention of students. Few studies, however, have examined the relationships between STEM outcomes and predictors in an integrated model, taking into account measurement errors in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
Role of College Environment on Students' Soft Skills: Achievement Goal Structure
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Zhang, Qiannan; Lin, Sheng; Liu, Jinlan; Zhang, Jingyi – College Teaching, 2022
The development of undergraduate students' soft skills is crucial because their chances to satisfactorily deal with the demands of various environments and interlocutors increases with the development of their soft skills. Based on the achievement goal theory, this study aimed to examine the role of the school environment in fostering students'…
Descriptors: College Environment, Soft Skills, Goal Orientation, Undergraduate Students
Making the Mark: Are Grades and Deep Learning Related?
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Campbell, Corbin M.; Cabrera, Alberto F. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Assessing gains in learning has received increased attention as one dimension of institutional accountability both in the USA (Arum and Roksa, Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses, 2011) and abroad (OECD, http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_39263238_40624662_1_1_1_1,00.html, 2013,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average, Correlation
Synthesizing Technology Adoption and Learners' Approaches towards Active Learning in Higher Education
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Chan, Kevin; Cheung, George; Wan, Kelvin; Brown, Ian; Luk, Green – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
In understanding how active and blended learning approaches with learning technologies engagement in undergraduate education, current research models tend to undermine the effect of learners' variations, particularly regarding their styles and approaches to learning, on intention and use of learning technologies. This study contributes to further…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Technology Integration, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Below the Surface: The Relationship among Different Types of Motivation, Engagement, and Performance of Undergraduate Students in Taiwan
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Hsieh, Tzu-Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among learning motivation, engagement behaviors, and performance of undergraduate students. 178 junior students are surveyed from five colleges at a four-year research university in Taiwan. The scales of motivation, engagement, and perceived learning outcomes are adapted from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Fountain of Knowledge: IR Collaboration for Effective Change. [Proceedings of the] Annual NEAIR Conference (37th, Saratoga Springs, New York, November 13-16, 2010)
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Frederick, Beth, Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
The NEAIR 2010 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Saratoga Springs, New York conference. Papers in this document include: (1) Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Research: A Model for the Successful Assessment of Students' College Experience (Michael N. Christakis and Joel D. Bloom); (2) Direct…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Student Personnel Services, Cooperation, College Students