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Bryan Haffey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The United States' airline industry is currently unable to meet passenger demand due to a limited pilot labor supply; a problem exacerbated by the fact that student retention remains a significant issue within the civil flight training industry. The aim of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between the socialization of…
Descriptors: Socialization, Intention, Academic Persistence, Flight Training
Sydnei L. Patton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study explored the level of student engagement that transfer students experience and how these levels can predict their persistence. This quantitative study utilized secondary data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). George Kuh's Theory of Student Engagement guided this study and influenced the development of the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students, College Freshmen
Shereza Marina Phekni – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative non-experimental predictive correlational study aimed to explore the relationship between intent to persist, academic self-efficacy, and burnout among college first-year STEM students. The study is important since there are high dropouts of undergraduate college STEM students that cause vast gaps in the STEM labor market. This…
Descriptors: Intention, Academic Persistence, Self Efficacy, Burnout
Michelle A. Burnside – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Persistence in distance learning has become problematic. This quantitative nonexperimental study examined whether perceived connectivity, perceived internal locus of control, and age predict persistence in online master's degree programs. Rotter's locus of control theory, Moore's transactional distance theory, and Rovai's composite persistence…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Age, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence
Zachary Richards – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is composed of three studies linking general education astronomy to student performance, course-taking, graduation, and identity. The first study examined demographic and academic predictors of astronomy performance among a cohort of N=1,909 community college students enrolled in astronomy courses in a large suburban community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Community College Students, Astronomy, STEM Education
Rich, Kandy YuJuan Ng – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study sought to examine how midterm math performance can impact a student's final math performance, STEM performance, overall performance, as well as retention and graduation with a STEM major. The sample consisted of 283 first-time full-time undergraduate students who were admitted in Fall 2014 as STEM majors within a liberal…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), STEM Education, Academic Achievement
Decoteau, Nicole I. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study analyzes the reasons for stop out behavior in a first-year composition class. The study was intended to be mixed methods, but the quantitative data, which was to be collected via survey, yielded too low of an n-value to allow for statistical analysis; therefore, case study research, analyzed through a social context framework, was…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Freshman Composition, College Freshmen, Stopouts
April Wood Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study used archived student records to determine which high school and postsecondary factors are the most significant predictors of college retention among 2,175 students enrolled at the University of West Georgia in Fall 2018. A two-tailed t-test was conducted for research questions one and two to analyze the high school GPAs…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Academic Persistence, College Students, Grade Point Average
Fagan, Linda Okoye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the involvement and integration factors that contribute to the persistence of international students. Persistence and retention are central to improving higher education, and individual student persistence as well as the rates at which students persist have direct ramifications on the university…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Social Integration, Predictor Variables, Foreign Students
Rauscher, Darren R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The demand for STEM graduates has remained consistent over the past decade, and is anticipated to further increase as the next decade unfolds. Difficulties regarding mathematics within introductory courses has been cited by participants as a contributing reason for transferring out of STEM fields of study, or avoiding these fields entirely.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Mathematics Anxiety, Introductory Courses, Academic Persistence
Anne Wildermuth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Most physician assistant (PA) programs receive applications in excess of available seats, yet based on the 2019 PAEA Curriculum Report, the all-cause attrition rate is 7.4%. Given the large pool of applicants available to select from, it is valuable to identify students who will succeed in and graduate from the program. Admissions interviews are…
Descriptors: College Admission, Interviews, Allied Health Personnel, Medical Education
Thierry, Jacqueline Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to determine if and to what extent students' Cognitive Ability, first-term GPA, and ethnicity predict student graduation status from a CTE college in Texas. Student retention rates continue to be a cause for great concern for higher learning, even more so for CTE institutions.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Grade Point Average, Graduation, Ethnicity
Bowman, Alayne J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While students have enrolled in college at increased rates since 1996, graduation rates have remained mostly stagnant (NCES, 2022). First-generation Appalachian students, specifically, had lower college completion rates but higher college enrollment rates than their peers (ARC, 2018). Since 2007, researchers have supported the use of non-cognitive…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Success, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Charisse Monique Staine – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative correlational predictive study examined the extent to which academic resilience and supportive environment collectively and individually predict internal motivation in African American male first generation college students at an HBCU in the United States. Academic Resilience Theory, African American Male Theory, and the Model of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, First Generation College Students, African American Students, Males
Landy-Blacklock, Syreeta – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship and predictability of demographic factors, and academic factors on the persistence and progression rates among first-year, full-time, four-year degree seeking students at a Historically Black College and University. Specifically, this study focused on the predictive power of demographic…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Black Colleges, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
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