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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
Elaine M. Allensworth; Kallie Clark – Educational Researcher, 2020
High school GPAs (HSGPAs) are often perceived to represent inconsistent levels of readiness for college across high schools, whereas test scores (e.g., ACT scores) are seen as comparable. This study tests those assumptions, examining variation across high schools of both HSGPAs and ACT scores as measures of academic readiness for college. We found…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, College Entrance Examinations, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence
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Carpenter, Dick M., II; Kaka, Sarah J.; Tygret, Jennifer A.; Cathcart, Katy – Research in Higher Education, 2018
This study examines the efficacy of a scholarship program designed to assist single parent, post-freshmen, full time undergraduate students and predictors of success among a sample of said students, where success is defined as progress toward completion, academic achievement, and degree completion. Results of fixed effects regression and…
Descriptors: Scholarship, One Parent Family, Undergraduate Students, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Ho, New Fei; Zhou, Jonathan; Fung, Daniel Shuen Sheng; Kua, Phek Hui Jade – Cogent Education, 2017
This study examined whether a three-month equine-assisted learning program improved measures of character skills in two independent cohorts of Year 1 youths, in a specialized secondary school for youths with difficulties coping with mainstream curriculum. In 2013, 75 students underwent intervention while 82 students did not. In 2014, 58 students…
Descriptors: Horses, Secondary School Students, At Risk Students, Intervention
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Cain, Kathleen M.; Wilkowski, Benjamin M.; Barlett, Christopher P.; Boyle, Colleen D.; Meier, Brian P. – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
Students and instructors show moderate levels of agreement about the quality of day-to-day teaching. In the present study, we replicated and extended this finding by asking how correspondence between student and instructor ratings is moderated by time of semester and student demographic variables. Participants included 137 students and 5…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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Brubacher, Michael R.; McMahon, Susan D.; Keys, Christopher B. – Exceptionality, 2018
Self-appraisals can combine with aspects of the school environment in predicting adolescent emotions and behaviors. This study examined how academic self-efficacy and social self-efficacy are related to anxiety and aggression, and how these relations are moderated by school stressors, academic achievement, and school belonging. The participants of…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Adolescents, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
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Johnson, Odis, Jr. – Youth & Society, 2018
This study explores how linkages between adolescents' educational attitudes and achievement vary according to race, expressive culture, and neighborhood collective socialization qualities. Specifically, the study examines (a) racial differences in how males' educational attitudes relate to their academic performance (i.e.,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Males, Socialization
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Bergman, Matthew E.; Fass-Holmes, Barry – Journal of International Students, 2016
The authors investigated whether undergraduates attending an American West Coast public university who were not U.S. citizens (nondomestic) maximized their grade point averages (GPA) through their choice of major field. Multiple regression hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that major field's effect size was small for these…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), Grade Point Average, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Thuneberg, Helena; Hautamäki, Jarkko; Hotulainen, Risto – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The relationships between reasoning and school achievement were studied taking into account the multilevel nature (school- and class-levels) of the data. We gathered data from 51 classes at seven schools in metropolitan and Eastern Finland (N = 769, 395 males, 15-year-old students). To study scientific reasoning, we used a modified version of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Process Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement
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Van Houtte, Mieke – Sociology of Education, 2017
This study examines whether the influence of track position on study involvement is gendered and whether gender differences in study involvement according to track position are associated with school misconduct and rather poor future perspectives. Three-level analyses (HLM 6) of data gathered in 2004-2005 from 11,872 third- and fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Track System (Education), Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Dupuis, Josee; Coutu, Josee; Laneuville, Odette – Computers & Education, 2013
In higher education, many of the new teaching interventions are introduced in the format of audio-visual files distributed through the Internet. A pedagogical tool consisting of questions listed as learning objectives and answers presented using online videos was designed as a supplement for a molecular biology course and made available to a large…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Video Technology, Scores, Molecular Biology
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Carter, Robert E. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that research-productive faculty are also the finest instructors. But, is this commonly held belief correct? In the current study, the notion that faculty scholarship exhibits a positive association with teaching evaluations is investigated. Reflecting the data structure of faculty nested within university, the current…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Scholarship, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Correlation
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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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Rodenbusch, Stacia E.; Hernandez, Paul R.; Simmons, Sarah L.; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
National efforts to transform undergraduate biology education call for research experiences to be an integral component of learning for all students. Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, have been championed for engaging students in research at a scale that is not possible through apprenticeships in faculty research…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Biology, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education
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Ling, Guangming; Bochenek, Jennifer; Burkander, Kri – Journal of Education for Business, 2015
By applying multilevel models with random effects, the authors reviewed and synthesized findings from 30 studies that were published in the last 20 years exploring the relationship between the Educational Testing Service Major Field Test for a Bachelor's Degree in Business (MFTB) and related factors. The results suggest that MFTB scores correlated…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Institutional Research, Educational Testing, Scores
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