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Disciplinary Differences in Student Ratings of Teaching Quality
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Kember, David; Leung, Doris Y. P. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
Comparisons of large samples of course and teaching evaluation questionnaire data show consistent disciplinary differences. The current study examined the disciplinary differences in a theoretical model positing the impact of the perceived nature of teaching and learning environment on the development of generic capabilities by testing of (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment
Gender, Psychosocial Dispositions, and the Academic Achievement of College Students
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Clifton, Rodney A.; Perry, Raymond P.; Roberts, Lance W.; Peter, Tracey – Research in Higher Education, 2008
Researchers have recently claimed that there are substantial differences in the psychosocial dispositions and academic achievement of male and female college students. To test this proposition, a sample of 854 undergraduate students were selected from a major Canadian Research-1 university. Multiple regression analyses assessed the effects of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Coping
Students' Persistence in a Distributed Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study
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Ivankova, Nataliya V.; Stick, Sheldon L. – Research in Higher Education, 2007
The purpose of this mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to identify factors contributing to students' persistence in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Distributed Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in Higher Education by obtaining quantitative results from surveying 278 current and former students and then following up with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, Online Courses, Doctoral Programs
An Examination of the Influence of Institutional Context on Student Persistence at 4-Year Colleges and Universities: A Multilevel Approach
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Titus, Marvin A. – Research in Higher Education, 2004
Using constructs from Bean's (1990) [In: D. Hossler and J. P. Bean (Eds.), The strategic management of college enrollments. San Francisco:Jossey-Bass] student attrition model and the Berger and Milem (2000) [In: J. C. Smart (Ed.), Higher education: Handbook of theory and research (Vol. XV, pp. 268?338). New York: Agathon Press] college impact…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Colleges, Student Attrition, Context Effect