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Findlater, Nickcoy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The gap in supply (i.e., shortage) and demand of the STEM workforce have prompted extensive research on identifying factors that predict STEM outcomes and retention of students. Few studies, however, have examined the relationships between STEM outcomes and predictors in an integrated model, taking into account measurement errors in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
Kazuki Hori – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Educational researchers are often interested in phenomena that unfold over time within a person and at the same time, relationships between their characteristics that are stable over time. Since variables in a longitudinal study reflect both within- and between-person effects, researchers need to disaggregate them to understand the phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Time, Structural Equation Models, Monte Carlo Methods, Simulation
Nate S. Brophy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation implements self-determination theory to examine learning environments conducive to student motivation in higher education. Specifically, this work is concerned with measuring the satisfaction and frustration of students' three basic psychological needs (BPNs), the need for autonomy, relatedness, and competence (ARC). To do so,…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Higher Education, Structural Equation Models, Introductory Courses
Wright, Sarah R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The computing industry has advanced at a rapid pace from desktops and laptops to mobile devices that can be held or worn including smart phones, tablets, and smart watches. These mobile technologies have become a part of every facet of life from banking and health care to new ways to communicate with family and peers. While business and industry…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Higher Education, College Faculty
Murphy, Marina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Social skills and academic competence are key factors influencing children's development and functioning across early childhood and through adolescence. There is a great need to understand the longitudinal patterns of growth in social and academic skills in order to further inform intervention, particularly for at-risk groups such as individuals…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Disabilities, Children, Comparative Analysis
Hongxia Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate whether and how teacher-child interactions, teacher-child relationships, children's self-control, parents' education levels, teachers' teaching experience and education levels, and classroom physical environment impact children's engagement levels. Preschoolers from Head Start programs and a university…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Learner Engagement, Structural Equation Models
Marquez, Jocabed G. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The United States faces high demand for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) professionals and a scarce supply of individuals who pursue STEM careers, especially minority populations in the U.S with proficiency in a language other than English. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact of use of Spanish in…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Executive Function, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Koontz, Richard D. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Academic performance and persistence are critically important issues for both universities and their students. Colleges and universities have invested significant resources trying to improve student outcomes. Unfortunately, in spite of this investment, improvement of student outcomes remains elusive. One key issue is that academic outcomes are…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Psychological Characteristics
Wang, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study expands understanding of Chinese international undergraduate students' stay inclinations in the United States. It analyzed a sample of 247 Chinese undergraduate students from a public Midwestern research university during Spring 2017. This study compared the differences in stay inclinations between Chinese undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Universities, Foreign Students, Comparative Analysis
Clark, Teixeira L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research on morphological awareness has shown that it contributes to literacy outcomes. However, because of the way morphological awareness is traditionally measured, there is speculation that tasks may reflect cognitive flexibility, working memory, or some other type of executive processing, versus awareness of morphology. Further complicating…
Descriptors: Correlation, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Short Term Memory
Miller, Emma Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine what variables predict the use of instructional technology among community college instructors. Legislators, community college administrators, and students expect innovative lessons from instructors that use technology. This study addresses the problem of not knowing what predicts instructional technology…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Buxton, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explored the relationships among high school students' reading comprehension achievement, three latent constructs (reading comprehension strategy use, reading comprehension strategy instruction, reading attitudes), and five control variables (gender, minority status, socio-economic status [SES], class time, class size). The purpose of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction
Engwanda, Michel Ndongola – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Mobile banking (m-banking) allows consumers to conduct financial transactions without temporal and spatial constraints through Internet-enabled mobile devices such as smartphones. The adoption patterns are of particular research interest because m-banking penetration has been relatively low even though smartphones are the most dominant forms of…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Banking, Structural Equation Models, Electronic Mail
Edens, David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
For-profit colleges are under scrutiny with questions about quality of curriculum, quality of faculty and instruction, and the value of the degree for the high-priced tuition. The high debt-load and low levels of persistence among students who enter for-profit institutions raise the level of concern for these students, many of whom are older and…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Academic Persistence, Satisfaction, College Students
Quick, John – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The gameplay experience can be understood as an interaction between player and game design characteristics. A greater understanding of these characteristics can be gained through empirical means. Subsequently, an enhanced knowledge of these characteristics should enable the creation of games that effectively generate desirable experiences for…
Descriptors: Games, Individual Characteristics, Gender Differences, Surveys
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