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Byrne, Marann; Flood, Barbara; Willis, Pauline – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the learning approaches of students taking their first course in accounting at a United States or an Irish university. The data for this study was gathered from 204 students in the U.S. and 309 in Ireland, using the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST, 1997) which measures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Skills, Comparative Analysis, Accounting
Crede, Marcus; Roch, Sylvia G.; Kieszczynka, Urszula M. – Review of Educational Research, 2010
A meta-analysis of the relationship between class attendance in college and college grades reveals that attendance has strong relationships with both class grades (k = 69, N = 21,195, p = 0.44) and GPA (k = 33, N = 9,243, p = 0.41). These relationships make class attendance a better predictor of college grades than any other known predictor of…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Grade Point Average, Attendance Patterns, Meta Analysis
Jorgensen, Shirley; Fichten, Catherine; Havel, Alice – Online Submission, 2009
The main aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of why students abandon their studies, or perform less well than expected given their high school grades, and to develop predictive models that can help identify those students most at-risk at the time they enter college. This will allow teachers and those responsible for student…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Failure, Profiles
dePyssler, Bruce; Williams, Valerie S. L.; Windle, Michael – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2005
This investigation focused on the relation between college student drinking behavior and study skills, behaviors, habits, and attitudes among undergraduate students at a predominantly African American university. Students (N = 492) were administered a multimedia alcohol survey with an embedded measure of study practices. The negative and generally…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables, Study Skills, Study Habits
Clemons, Trudy L. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among students' self-perception, attitudes toward school, study and organizational skills, achievement motivation, attributional style, gender, parental involvement and style, parental income and parental level of education, and students' academic performance or achievement. Using…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Grade Point Average
Ronsisvalle, Tammy; Watkins, Ryan – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
While online education has made great strides in recent years to become an accepted component of higher education, with many colleges now offering accredited online degree programs, the current opportunities and challenges of online K-12 education are still awash in the turbulent waters of regional politics, temperamental technologies, changing…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Distance Education

Strage, Amy A. – Adolescence, 1998
Proposes a conceptual framework based on attachment theory and parenting styles typology for examining the relationship between family context variables and the development of self-regulation skills. Also presents initial findings from a study of the parental practices and values associated with academic self-regulation in college students.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, College Students
Stalker, Jacqueline – 1982
This study was conducted to determine the usefulness of a general global reading test, a cloze test, and a vocabulary test as predictors of success, as well as the effects of an extended required study skills program on success and achievement, for students in mechanics programs at Keewatin Community College in Manitoba, Canada. The three criteria…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auto Mechanics, Cloze Procedure, Community Colleges