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Kulp, Amanda M.; Pascale, Amanda Blakewood; Grandstaff, Matthew – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2021
This research examines the relationships between first-year college students' attendance at campus-sponsored extracurricular events and grade point average, persistence from fall to spring, and retention to the second year. Students' attendance at various campus life events over the course of an academic year was tracked by scanning students'…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Student Participation
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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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Shadick, Richard; Dagirmanjian, Faedra Backus; Trub, Leora; Dawson, Heather – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: To examine differences between heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning students' nonmedical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD). Participants: First-year university students between October 2009 and October 2013 who self-identified as heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning. Methods: Students completed…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, College Freshmen, Drug Abuse, Questionnaires
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Vaughan, Angela L.; Lalonde, Trent L.; Jenkins-Guarnieri, Michael A. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Many researchers assessing the efficacy of educational programs face challenges due to issues with non-randomization and the likelihood of dependence between nested subjects. The purpose of the study was to demonstrate a rigorous research methodology using a hierarchical propensity score matching method that can be utilized in contexts where…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Heng, Kreng – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2014
Research on the faculty impact on students' academic achievement has been disproportionately confined to the context of countries with developed higher education systems. Few studies have been undertaken in the developing world like Cambodia. This study employed hierarchical linear modeling to examine the relationships between faculty behaviors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Behavior, Academic Achievement
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DeAngelo, Linda; Franke, Ray – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Completing college is now the minimum threshold for entry into the middle class. This has pushed college readiness issues to the forefront in efforts to increase educational attainment. Little is known about how college readiness improves outcomes for students traditionally marginalized in educational settings or if social background factors…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, College Readiness, College Freshmen, School Holding Power
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Jones, Willis A. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2016
This study used data from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) to examine how student background characteristics, student engagement, and institutional characteristics correlate with the frequency of interactional diversity among community college students. Given the current lack of research on interactional diversity among…
Descriptors: Correlation, Performance Factors, Community Colleges, Student Surveys
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Tempelaar, Dirk T.; Wosnitza, Marold; Volet, Simone; Rienties, Bart; Giesbers, Bas; Gijselaers, Wim H. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
Students' learning goals demonstrate much stronger variety than traditional goal orientation models for classroom learning assume, especially when the educational context allows so. In this empirical study we will investigate the richness of students' goal orientation in a collaborative learning context. We do so with the help of a goal…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, Goal Orientation, College Freshmen
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Bowman, Nicholas A. – Innovative Higher Education, 2014
Openness to diversity and challenge (ODC) constitutes an integral outcome of the undergraduate experience. However, ODC may also serve as a form of generalized openness to experience; if so, then it should be positively related to a host of college experiences as well as student success. The study reported here explored this possibility within a…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, College Freshmen, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Grade Point Average
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Park, Julie J.; Denson, Nida – Research in Higher Education, 2013
This paper delves into a facet of socioeconomic diversity relatively unaddressed in the literature: student reports of cross-class interaction ("reported CCI"). Previous research has found that student interaction across social class is a significant predictor of cross-racial interaction, but it is unknown whether the actual…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Social Class, Race, Interaction
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Ames, Megan E.; Wintre, Maxine G.; Prancer, S. Mark; Pratt, Michael W.; Birnie-Lefcovitch, Shelly; Polivy, Janet; Adams, Gerald R. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
Undergraduates (N = 2,823) at 6 universities were surveyed longitudinally to examine the relevance of student home setting on the transition to university. Preliminary results indicated that rural students seem less likely to attend large, ethnically diverse universities. Hierarchical linear models revealed that "proximal rural" students…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Freshmen, Rural Urban Differences, Student Adjustment
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Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
The purpose of the study was to estimate the relationship between academic achievement in college, as defined by first-year grade point average (GPA), and self-authorship among African American first-year students at an HBCU (N = 140), using hierarchical linear regression techniques. A single research question guided this investigation: What is…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Success, College Freshmen
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Shaw, Emily J.; Marini, Jessica P.; Mattern, Krista D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2013
The current study evaluated the relationship between various operationalizations of the Advanced Placement[R] (AP) exam and course information with first-year grade point average (FYGPA) in college to better understand the role of AP in college admission decisions. In particular, the incremental validity of the different AP variables, above…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Grade Point Average, College Freshmen, College Admission
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Dickson, Kerry Ann; Stephens, Bruce Warren – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2016
Literature shows that attendance is an important bidirectional link in engaging students in learning. However, metacognitive awareness eludes many first-year students--particularly the disadvantaged, including those with low admission scores, English as a second language or coming from low socio-economic status (SES), migrant, or first-in-family…
Descriptors: Intervention, Lecture Method, Attendance, Scores
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Mutz, Rudiger; Daniel, Hans-Dieter – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: It is often claimed that psychology students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics affect course enrolment, persistence, achievement, and course climate. However, the inter-institutional variability has been widely neglected in the research on students' attitudes towards research methods and statistics, but it is important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Research Methodology, Statistics
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