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Direct linkAnderson, Whitney; Motto, Justin S.; Bourdeaux, Renee – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2014
Maintaining effective undergraduate academic advising programs that meet the needs of students is an ongoing challenge for universities across the country. Using expectancy violations theory as a lens, this study argues that student satisfaction with advising is linked to alignment between student expectations of the advising process and perceived…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Undergraduate Students, Expectation, Student Attitudes
Download full textPhilbrick, Jane Hass; Leseane, Reginald; Bart, Barbara D.; Dowling, William – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The authors examine the impact of a program designed to encourage students to read popular business magazines. The results suggest that a reading program can improve student knowledge of current events, but that more work is needed to encourage students to attain timely knowledge of the current environment of business.
Descriptors: Periodicals, Journal Articles, Reading Motivation, Program Effectiveness
Grant, Timothy S.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2008
Confidence intervals are beginning to play an increasing role in the reporting of research findings within the social and behavioral sciences and, consequently, are becoming more prevalent in beginning classes in statistics and research methods. Confidence intervals are an attractive means of conveying experimental results, as they contain a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intervals, Research Methodology, Figurative Language
Peer reviewedBrewer, James K. – Florida Journal of Educational Research, 1987
An index that measures the degree of comfort a researcher has relative to statistical inference application is proposed. The index is calculated by selecting and weighting components inherent in the conduct of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals, and its values range from zero to one. To organize the components of the index, inference…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Hypothesis Testing, Rating Scales, Research Reports
Bennett, Randy Elliot; Rock, Donald A. – 1993
Formulating-Hypotheses (F-H) items present a situation and ask the examinee to generate as many explanations for it as possible. This study examined the generalizability, validity, and examinee perceptions of a computer-delivered version of the task. Eight F-H questions were administered to 192 graduate students. Half of the items restricted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Difficulty Level, Generalizability Theory, Graduate Students
Westbrook, Bert; Sloan, Stephanie – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
A longitudinal design was used to test the hypotheses that career development indices account for significant amounts of variance in the prediction of high school success, and account for unique variance beyond that of academic predictors of high school success. The participants included 188 11th-grade students who were followed-up in the 12th…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Grade Point Average, Grade 12, Grade 12
