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Elizabeth Farmosa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The retention of high-achieving students in a university honors program is a significant challenge for academic institutions. This dissertation evaluates how well an honors college at a large, urban, public university retains students in the Honors College. The evaluation is a mixed-methods utilization-focused evaluation conducted by an internal…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, School Size, Honors Curriculum, Academic Persistence
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Gilstrap, Donald L. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
This article presents research on persistence among at-risk students using network analysis following multiple linear regression (MLR). Data on a population of enrolled undergraduate students at an urban-serving university over several years (P = 35,239) is tested using multiple linear regression. Variables interacting at different dimensions of…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Academic Persistence, Enrollment Management, Undergraduate Students
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Corwyn, Robert F.; McGarry, Phillip P. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
We tested a model that integrates academic delay of gratification with Expectancy Value Theory to predict achievement in an undergraduate psychology and nursing statistics class at a metropolitan university in the southeastern United States. We analyzed measurements (n = 163: 80.4% female) of past performance, academic delay of gratification,…
Descriptors: Expectation, Statistics, Mathematics Achievement, Predictor Variables
Namrata Murthy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Demand is high for engineering students and educators must identify factors affecting persistence and graduation of engineers. Retention and graduation rates remain problematic for many institutions. Higher education research focuses on these two issues as many students head to engineering programs with a wide range of attributes, characteristics,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Predictor Variables, Engineering Education
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Wheatley, Kathryn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Transfer students often come from lower-income backgrounds, fail engage post-transfer, and graduate at lower rates than their native peers. Engagement is recognized as a factor connected to college student success. This study examines a business college cohort to determine the connections between pre-transfer student and school characteristics,…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students, Student Participation
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Thomas, Jackie C., Jr.; Wolters, Christopher; Horn, Catherine; Kennedy, Heidi – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2014
In this study, campus involvement, faculty mentorship, motivational beliefs (self-efficacy and utility value), and sense of belonging were examined as potential predictors of African-American college student academic persistence. Participants (n = 139) in the study were African-American college students from a large-urban university. Separate…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Urban Universities, Academic Persistence
Smith Staley, Charlesetta – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative study explored the leadership styles of mentors for retained first-year adult students to analyze whether the prevalent style had a higher impact on first-year adult student retention. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) 5x was used to collect data on the mentors' leadership styles from the perspective of retained…
Descriptors: Mentors, Leadership Styles, Questionnaires, Adult Students
Reyes, Saul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study assessed if there were differences in the academic performance, persistence, and degree completion for Associate in Arts transfer students in selected majors who enrolled in the different campuses of a multi-campus university. This causal comparative study analyzed historical student enrollment data from a large, urban, public, research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Graduation
Synco, Tracee M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Tinto, Astin and countless others have researched the retention and attrition of students from college for more than thirty years. However, the six year graduation rate for all first-time full-time freshmen for the 2002 cohort was 57%. This study sought to determine the retention variables that predicted continued enrollment of entering freshmen…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, School Holding Power, Grade Point Average, Supplementary Education
Mead, Molly Sherk – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Attrition in online programs has historically been much higher than in traditional face to face programs, creating concern regarding the appropriateness of online learning for all populations. This study aimed to address the question of whether students' levels of self-directed learning readiness and the quality ratings of online courses would be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
Kearney, Gretchen Warner; Kearney, Terrence J. – 1994
Students (n=424) who transferred to a large public urban university in fall 1989 were surveyed at the time of their matriculation and 131 students were surveyed again in March 1993 to discover their perceptions of 12 institutional characteristics. Characteristics included quality of academic programs, variety of courses and programs, faculty…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Expectation, Higher Education
Fox, Richard N. – 1984
The first phase of a study to predict retention and withdrawal among disadvantaged students at an urban commuter institution is described. Variable selection for the study was guided by Tinto's (1975) and Bean's (1982) models. Pilot testing was undertaken to estimate some psychometric characteristics of Pascarella and Terenzini's institutional…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Commuting Students, Disadvantaged
Johnson, Naomi T.; Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1986
A causal model of academic factors affecting undergraduate student persistence at a large, urban, commuter university was tested. The effects of academic variables on persistence from fall to spring semester were also assessed for transfer and native students. The model accounted for 49% of the total variance in persistence, while separate models…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1981
Multiple group discriminant analysis was employed to determine the utility of preenrollment traits and academic performance in identifying freshman students who persisted, stopped out, or withdrew early. After first-quarter academic performance, relatively clear distinctions can be made between students who persist and those who do not.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Commuter Colleges
D'Alessandro, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2009
The NEAIR 2009 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Baltimore, Maryland conference. Papers in this document include: (1) A Principle Components Analysis of The Determinants of Student Satisfaction at a Historically Black Institution (Tao Gong and Jacqueline V. Parham); (2) Assessing and Enhancing Graduates'…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Satisfaction, Black Colleges
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