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Direct linkJana Korecková; Radek Kovács; František Ochrana – Cogent Education, 2023
The article focuses on the hitherto unresearched impact of nudging on the successful completion of HEIs studies. The aim of the study is to find out how HEIs students accept different forms of nudging and how individual forms of nudging can contribute to the successful completion of studies. The explanatory paradigm is anchored in nudge theory.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Educational Strategies
Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi; Andrews, Georgina – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the low placement participation rate among international students compared with UK students, by examining the impact of individual factors such as gender and domicile and academic achievement such as prior academic qualification, prior academic results and subsequent academic results on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Foreign Students, Student Participation
O'Leary, Brian P. – Education Canada, 2010
In Manitoba's Seven Oaks School Division, all 3,000 high school students have a teacher advisor who spends an hour a week with them throughout their four years in high school, knows them as individuals, knows their families, and acts as an academic and life coach. Advisors help students complete their first high school course registration and they…
Descriptors: High Schools, Ceremonies, Graduation, Foreign Countries
Ackerman, Phillip L.; Kanfer, Ruth; Beier, Margaret E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Prediction of academic success at postsecondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, especially of 1st-year college grades, yet a large amount of individual-differences variance remains unaccounted for.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Educational Psychology
DesJardins, Stephen L.; Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – Economics of Education Review, 2006
We present a multiple spells-competing risks model of stopout, dropout, reenrollment, and graduation behavior. We find that students who experience an initial stopout are more likely to experience subsequent stopouts (occurrence dependence) and are less likely to graduate. We also find evidence of the impact of the length of an initial spell on…
Descriptors: Stopouts, Student Behavior, Race, Individual Differences
Peer reviewedEnsminger, Margaret E.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether neighborhoods influenced the likelihood of high school graduation for a cohort of African-American children who were followed from 1966 to 1993. Found that living in a poverty census tract did not seem to influence the likelihood of high school graduation or school leaving over and above the impact of family and individual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dropouts, Family Influence, Graduation
