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Adesanya, Ibiyemi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While food insecurity among college students has existed for decades, only in recent years has the focus on the impact of food insecurity on student success emerged. However, most of the research has been quantitative, conducted at public two-year and four-year colleges and focused on predictors, prevalence, and impact of food insecurity among…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Success, Correlation
Zachry William Warren – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this research is to better understand how perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEU) predict how frequently science teachers use digital learning tools in the physical classroom. The research was based on the widely used Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), originally developed by Davis (1989). The research is…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Usability, Value Judgment
Elijah Knight – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Due to the high incidence of running-related injuries (RRIs), there is a need to better understand factors contributing to the prevalence of RRIs in community college (CC) women's cross-country runners when research is lacking in CC intercollegiate athletics. The limited focus on CC athletics has left numerous crucial questions about…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Athletics, Student Athletes, Females
Coughlan, Meghan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Motivated by the underrepresentation of women in math-related majors and occupations, the present dissertation explored the possibility that disparities in frequency of classroom participation--a measure of engagement prone to gender differences--could be partially responsible for gender differences in belonging and identity in math contexts. Via…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Student Participation, Learner Engagement
Barthel, Lori P. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study was an inquiry into whether Louisiana school counselors' perceptions of their professional identity, quality of principal-school counselor relationships, and confidence level (self-efficacy) of providing school-based mental health services (SBMHS) including counseling skills, addressing student issues, and working with…
Descriptors: Principals, School Counselors, Counselor Attitudes, Professional Identity
Milton, Orlando, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study sought to examine the impact of financial, academic, and demographic institutional factors on the graduation rate of male student athletes. Specifically, this study was concerned with the predictive power of financial (total athletic operating expenses, recruiting expenses, and student aid for athletes), academic (SAT verbal, SAT math,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Graduation Rate, Athletes, Males
Jizi, Lama – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In Lebanon, estimates of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use among college students are not available. CAM practices are not well regulated and some products contain unsafe substances. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and predictors of CAM use among Lebanese college students using the health belief model. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Medicine, Incidence
Schuessler, Wesely – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between levels of implementation of Tomlinson's (2015) differentiated instruction and students' disruptive classroom behaviors. This is an area of research that has not been previously explored. Tomlinson's differentiated instruction is a process of teaching in which each student's…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Student Behavior, Correlation, Middle School Students
Best, Neil A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One of 5 women are sexually assaulted during college, resulting not only in immediate suffering, but also negative consequences that affect their career trajectory and success over a lifetime (Krebs et al., 2016; Loya, 2015). Although previous research has focused on the individual predictors of violence, more recent research has hypothesized the…
Descriptors: Incidence, Sexuality, Rape, Student Attitudes
Keramidas, Natacha L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Mentoring can change the course of our lives and, in graduate education, is defined as "a personal relationship in which a more experienced faculty member or professional acts as a guide, role model, teacher, and sponsor of a less experienced graduate student or junior professional" (Johnson, 2002, p. 88). It has been posited that this…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Mentors, Barriers, Incidence
Meredith, David C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study investigated whether use of the Achieve 3000 differentiated reading internet program correlated with increased incidence of ELL students achieving proficiency and/or with improvement in reading and literacy scores. It also examined attitudes among district ELL teachers. Results supported DI and CALL methods as instructional approaches.…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Literacy Education, Literacy
Prince, Angela M. T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
For decades, youths with disabilities have had consistently poor postschool engagement outcomes in terms of employment and postsecondary education and training. Student-, school-, and district-level factors have impacted these outcomes in varying degrees. Using three years of postschool outcome data from the South Carolina Department of Education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Smith, Justin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Concerns over fiscal and personal appropriateness for public retirement pensions have become prevalent within conversations throughout the United States. However, with some important exceptions (e.g., DeArmond and Goldhaber, 2010) limited research has focused upon perceptions of teachers who receive these pension plans. As such, the purpose of…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Factor Analysis, School Districts
Lee, Chung Gun – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study consists of three sub-studies. Sub-study 1 and 2 attempted to incorporate environmental variables as precursor background variables of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to predict quitting-related intentions among Texas adult smokers and university student smokers, respectively. Sub-study 1 and 2 analyzed different data sets and were…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Smoking, Health Behavior, Behavior Change
Amanda Dahir – ProQuest LLC, 2010
School discipline plays an important role in maintaining a safe and orderly learning environment for students. Disruptive behavior in the classroom interferes with classroom learning time making it difficult to accomplish academic goals. A common method of handling discipline problems within schools is removing the disruptive student from their…
Descriptors: Students, Discipline Policy, Discipline, Suspension