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Lucas Pugh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored leadership perceptions around grade configuration and student achievement. Grade configuration is the grade level present within a school. The metric used to determine student achievement is ninth-grade GPA. This multi-method study began to determine if grade configuration had a significant impact on student achievement for the…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Academic Achievement, Elementary Education
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Melissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Stephanie West Wehrer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The era of accountability and a rise in standardized testing during recent years have emerged from policy reform initiatives designed to increase student performance. While the goal was to increase learning standards, it has not yielded the dramatic improvements expected. This study explored if there was a statistically significant difference in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Private Schools, Rural Schools, Christianity
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Öksüzoglu, Irem Elçi; Tünkler, Vural – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
The aim of this study was to examine prospective social studies teachers' efficacy perceptions of 21st century skills based on gender, grade, academic success and mastery of information-communication technologies. Descriptive survey model was adopted in the study. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 257 prospective social studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, 21st Century Skills
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Caroline Cobb; Jianling Xie; Katarzyna Gallo; Marlon Boyd; Margaret Wilkins; Madison Wadsworth; Lucy Brake – American Journal of Distance Education, 2024
We sought to examine the potential environmental protective factors contributing to academic resilience among college students during emergency distance education. Data were collected from a sample of undergraduate students (n = 195) representing various majors and academic classifications. Our study results revealed that students perceived their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Resilience (Psychology), COVID-19, Pandemics
Barbara B. Lussier – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a relationship existed between early-career teachers' performance on the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) as a measure for improving readiness to teach and their Level of Effectiveness (LOE) score once they begin teaching, and to investigate perceptions of early-career teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance Based Assessment, Readiness, Performance
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Rudd, Matthew; Honkiss, Lawrence – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
The primary objective of this research paper is to examine the relationship between students' English language proficiency skills and academic performance across unrelated subjects from a sample population totalling 2,026 students at a private university in the surrounding areas of Bangkok. Participants in this research study comprised first,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement
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Alhadabi, Amal; Li, Jian – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
The current study investigated patterns of growth in academic achievement trajectories among American high school students (N = 12,314) that were obtained from a nationally representative, public-use dataset (the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009) in relation to key demographic information (i.e., gender, grade level, socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Bartolj, Tjaša; Polanec, Sašo – Research in Higher Education, 2018
In this article we analyze the effects of student work on academic performance for college students. In order to reduce the endogeneity bias due to selection into treatment, we use propensity score matching technique. This approach allows us to estimate the effects of student work separately for different years of study, which is not possible when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Probability, Grade Point Average
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Kartal, Büsra; Tasdemir, Adem – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2021
STEM education has benefits for students, such as increasing achievement and improving attitudes, motivation, interest toward STEM disciplines, and higher-order thinking skills. Teachers' characteristics, perceptions, and attitudes related to STEM influence teachers' implementation of integrative STEM approaches and, as a result, shape the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Positive Attitudes, STEM Education, Preschool Education
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Pollak, Micah; Parnell, David Alan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Using data from economics and history courses taught across multiple semesters, the authors show that a triweekly meeting frequency improves student performance relative to a biweekly meeting frequency. There is evidence that this effect operates through two channels. First, there is an indirect effect that operates through attendance. While…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Length, Time Factors (Learning), Attendance
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Taskin, Necati; Erzurumlu, Kerem – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
This study aims to investigate the online learning readiness of learners and to examine this readiness according to various variables. The descriptive survey model was used in this study. The data of the study were collected from 1963 higher education students who participated voluntarily according to the convenience sampling method. Demographic…
Descriptors: College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Getachew, Abera – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2019
Guidance and counseling programs are effective in assisting young students in various aspects like academic achievement, study habits and choosing appropriate careers. A study was conducted in a public university in Ethiopia among 605 regular undergraduate students. Its objective was to investigate the students' awareness and use of Psychological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Services, Counseling Services, Undergraduate Students
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Hemdan Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan; Omara, Ehab Mohammed Naguib – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychometric properties of an Arabic translation of the Gifted Rating Scales-School Form (GRS-S) on a national sample of 907 students from Cycle 1 (Grades 1 to 4) and Cycle 2 (Grades 5 to 10) from five governorates in Oman (Muscat, Dhofar, Al-Batinah North, Al-Sharqiyah South, and Al-Dhahira). The…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Semitic Languages, Psychometrics, Translation
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Cheng, Wen – Educational Psychology, 2019
To determine intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for work among college students, an online survey was conducted to collect participants' self-reported motivation and personality traits, as well as academic performance in samples of 310 American and 686 Taiwanese college student respondents. Data suggest that intrinsic and extrinsic motivations…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Incentives, Personality Traits
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