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Direct linkLisa Marie Chervenak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While instances of cut and paste plagiarism among undergraduate college students has decreased over the past several years, a new form of plagiarism has emerged that often goes undetected by these software systems. Paraphrasing websites allow users to enter information from a source, which the website will then reword, giving the appearance of an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, For Profit Colleges, Plagiarism, Writing (Composition)
Elizabeth Farmosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The retention of high-achieving students in a university honors program is a significant challenge for academic institutions. This dissertation evaluates how well an honors college at a large, urban, public university retains students in the Honors College. The evaluation is a mixed-methods utilization-focused evaluation conducted by an internal…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, School Size, Honors Curriculum, Academic Persistence
Washington, Christina R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The transition to an institution of higher education can present challenges and difficulties, but it is a student's expectations that can ultimately predict adjustment (Jackson, Pancer, Pratt, & Hunsberger, 2000). A larger number of students who experience difficulties in their adjustment end up withdrawing from the institution (Baker…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Social Development
Morales, Natalie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study investigated high school students' and teachers' perceptions of academic self perception, environmental perceptions, goal valuation, and motivation/self-regulation as factors affecting students' academic achievement. A two-way MANOVA was conducted to determine if high school students' gender and academic programs,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Attitude Measures, Self Concept
Moon, Jessica Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the quantitative study was threefold: (a) to examine high-ability students in and outside an honors program at a midwestern comprehensive university to determine differences in background and demographic characteristics between honors participants and nonparticipants of similar ability; (b) to determine differences in academic…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Ability, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation
D'Aquino, Erik A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Since their development in the early twentieth century Honors Programs and Colleges within Higher Education serve a variety of functions; from attracting academically talented students to an institution for the purposes of increasing the institutional profile to providing an opportunity for those students to achieve their potential. However, the…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Students, High Schools, Advanced Placement
