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Giersch, Jason; Bottia, Martha Cecilia; Stearns, Elizabeth; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Moller, Stephanie – Educational Policy, 2021
The adoption of market theory as a guiding principle of education policy increased the need for assessments of school performance that families could use to compare academic benefits of attending one school to another. Prominent among measures used by states are the school proficiency and growth indicators resulting from high-stakes tests. Using a…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, College Bound Students
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Micomonaco, Justin P.; Espinoza, Benjamin D. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
Improving student success outcomes such as persistence and graduation rates remains a priority for higher education institutions, scholars, and advocates. Recent scholarly work argues for more qualitative work in this area to develop a deeper understanding of the issue and to identify more effective ways to increase college completion rates across…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Overachievement
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Abizada, Azar; Mirzaliyeva, Fizza – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2019
Designing effective selection procedures for honors programs is always a challenging task. In Azerbaijan, selection is based on three main criteria: (i) student performance in the centralized university admission test; (ii) student performance in the first year of studies; and (iii) student performance in the honors program selection test. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Honors Curriculum, Selection Criteria, Academic Achievement
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Culver, KC – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Many people within and outside of higher education view honors programs as providing meaningful academic experiences that promote learning and growth for high-achieving students. To date, the research exploring the link between honors participation and college grades and retention has obtained mixed results; some of the seemingly conflicting…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Achievement, Probability, Undergraduate Students
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Warren, Jeffrey M.; Goins, Camille L. – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
This study explored the impact of Advanced Placement and honors course enrollment and high school grade point average (GPA) on first-semester college GPA. Data were collected from 131 college freshmen enrolled at a minority-serving institution who graduated from a public school during the previous academic year. A four-step hierarchical multiple…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Public Schools
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Rhea, David M. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
Many honors programs make admissions decisions based on student high school GPA and a standardized test score. However, McKay argued that standardized test scores can be a barrier to honors program participation, particularly for minority students. Minority students, particularly Hispanic and African American students, are apt to have lower…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Honors Curriculum, College Freshmen, Admission Criteria
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Keller, Robert R.; Lacy, Michael G. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013
Honors directors and deans know or presume that retention and graduation rates of honors students substantially exceed those of non-honors students. In our research, we have attempted to better determine what portion of this success is attributable to the academic and other benefits of honors programs as opposed to the background characteristics…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Probability, Correlation, Graduation Rate
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Mould, Tom; DeLoach, Stephen B. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2017
While studies of predictive factors for success in honors have been increasingly creative and expansive on what these factors might include, they have rarely challenged the dominant, virtually monolithic definitions of success. The majority of studies measure success either by collegiate grade point averages (GPAs) or retention rates in honors,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Honors Curriculum, Alternative Assessment
Washington, Christina R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The transition to an institution of higher education can present challenges and difficulties, but it is a student's expectations that can ultimately predict adjustment (Jackson, Pancer, Pratt, & Hunsberger, 2000). A larger number of students who experience difficulties in their adjustment end up withdrawing from the institution (Baker…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Adjustment, Academic Achievement, Social Development
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Wolters, Christopher A.; Fan, Weihua; Daugherty, Stacy G. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2013
This study was designed to forge stronger theoretical and empirical links between achievement goal theory and attribution theory. High school students ("N" = 224) completed a self-report survey that assessed 3 types of achievement goals, 7 types of attributions, and self-efficacy. Results indicated that students' adoption of achievement…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Attribution Theory, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Trigwell, Keith; Ashwin, Paul; Millan, Elena S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: In separate studies and research from different perspectives, five factors are found to be among those related to higher quality outcomes of student learning (academic achievement). Those factors are higher self-efficacy, deeper approaches to learning, higher quality teaching, students' perceptions that their workload is appropriate,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
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Creech, Leah Renee; Sweeder, Ryan D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
This study examined the historical performance of students at Michigan State University in 12 life sciences courses over 13 yr to find variables impacting student success. Hierarchical linear modeling predicted 25.0-62.8% of the variance in students' grades in the courses analyzed. The primary predictor of a student's course grade was his or her…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Majors (Students), Grade Point Average, Biochemistry
Morales, Natalie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study investigated high school students' and teachers' perceptions of academic self perception, environmental perceptions, goal valuation, and motivation/self-regulation as factors affecting students' academic achievement. A two-way MANOVA was conducted to determine if high school students' gender and academic programs,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Attitude Measures, Self Concept
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Hines, Erik M.; Holcomb-McCoy, Cheryl – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2013
Parental characteristics, ecological factors, and the academic achievement of African American male high school students were examined. One hundred fifty-three 11th and 12th grade African American males completed the Parenting Style Index (Steinberg, Lamborn, Darling, Mounts, & Dornbusch, 1994) and a demographic questionnaire. Results…
Descriptors: Males, African American Students, High School Students, Child Rearing
D'Aquino, Erik A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Since their development in the early twentieth century Honors Programs and Colleges within Higher Education serve a variety of functions; from attracting academically talented students to an institution for the purposes of increasing the institutional profile to providing an opportunity for those students to achieve their potential. However, the…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Students, High Schools, Advanced Placement
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