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Ashley Hannah Majzun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling (MASEM) is the combination of meta-analysis (MA) and structural equation modeling (SEM). With new MASEM methodologies developed over the past few years, there is an opportunity to compare the past approaches with the new ones. The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold. First, the parameter estimates,…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Structural Equation Models, College Students, Academic Persistence
Chen Zong – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A predictive model of undergraduate graduation rate at the institutional level is important and useful to researchers, administrators, and policy makers in higher education. Graduation rate is a key indicator for higher education institutional performance. This study aimed to replicate, revise, and validate the model of Institutional Performance…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduation Rate, Public Colleges, Structural Equation Models
Chen, Yanyan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study investigated the relationships among Chinese undergraduate English learners' motivation for learning English (i.e., students' internal choice, students' external pressure), integrative orientation (i.e., students' engagement with the target language culture or community), students' perceptions of psychological need satisfaction, English…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English Language Learners
Allen, Michael Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Latino/as are the largest minority group within the United States and have the fastest projected population growth within the United States but currently have the lowest baccalaureate attainment rate of any racial or ethnic group. Traditional methods of measuring and supporting Latino/a students have not been successful and need reevaluation.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Characteristics, Online Surveys, College Students
Ali Farzan, Isbah – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The students in the US are positioned in the middle among the nations on the international tests of academic achievement. This moderate achievement is a matter of great concern as it reflects the output of the US education system, as well as the input, in terms of human resource, available to the market. One way of probing this moderate…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
Manwaring, Kristine C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is a multi-article format dissertation that explores emotional and cognitive engagement in higher education classrooms. Student engagement in higher education classrooms has been associated with desired outcomes such as academic achievement, retention, and graduation. Student engagement is a multi-faceted concept, consisting of behavioral,…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Learner Engagement
Chun, Jina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Researchers have assumed that social cognitive factors play significant roles in the career development of transition youth and young adults with disabilities and those without disabilities. However, research on the influence of the career decision-making process as a primary causal agent in one's psychosocial outcomes such as perceived level of…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Social Cognition, Social Theories
Moore, Linden A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In September of 2007, the Michigan Department of Education introduced a program referred to as seat time waivers to a few school districts in Michigan to pilot. During the 2009-2010 school year, 999 students were on seat time waivers with a total of 5070 classes taken by these students. While the number of online learners continues to grow…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Administration, Metacognition, Self Management
Baharav, Hadar – ProQuest LLC, 2014
It has long been documented that not all students succeed in college despite being identified college-ready by college admission. Possibly, traditional measures of college readiness, such as class rank and scores on generally accepted standardized exams, fail to adequately represent the knowledge, skills, and attributes that are required by…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Outcomes of Education, Racial Differences, White Students
Lockeman, Kelly Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2012
College completion is an issue of great concern in the United States, where only 50% of students who start college as freshmen complete a bachelor's degree at that institution within six years. Researchers have studied a variety of factors to understand their relationship to student persistence. Not surprisingly, student characteristics,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Service Learning, Academic Persistence, Graduation
McIntosh, Eric James – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Despite increased access to higher education for previously underrepresented ethnic groups, the graduation rates of African Americans and Latinos in higher education pale in comparison to their Caucasian and Asian peers (Aud, Fox, & KewalRamani, 2010). In contrast, Asians are graduating at rates higher than Caucasians; however, the literature…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Asian American Students
Makiewicz, Monica Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this work was to understand the concept of trust, its meaning, antecedents, and outcomes as they applied to teacher trust in principals. Since there are very few in-depth studies specifically on trust in a school principal, research on trust from an organizational perspective was consulted. This body of research has numerous and…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Student Characteristics, Trust (Psychology), Academic Achievement
Song, Hyuksoon S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many medical schools have developed computer-based, multimedia learning environments to fill the knowledge gap and provide common cases and resources to students. However, considering that multimedia in education may impede effective learning if the characteristics of learners and tasks are not considered thoroughly in instructional design, it is…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Instructional Design, Medical Schools, Structural Equation Models
Nichols, Shirley J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative correlational research study was to investigate, describe, and measure factors influencing retention of nontraditional first and second year students at a university located in the Midwestern United States. Retention of adult students has become a major issue for many institutions of higher education and many…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intention, Statistical Analysis, School Holding Power
Tolley, Patricia Ann Separ – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the effects of a residential learning community and enrollment in an introductory engineering course to engineering students' perceptions of the freshman year experience, academic performance, and persistence. The sample included students enrolled in a large, urban, public, research university…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Program Effectiveness