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Prevett, Pauline S.; Black, Laura; Hernandez-Martinez, Paul; Pampaka, Maria; Williams, Julian – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2021
A novel approach to integrating Cluster Analysis (CA) within qualitative inquiry is presented, grounded in a large, unstructured dataset from open and rather unstructured interviews. This dataset was previously subjected to typical (theory sensitive) thematic analyses. Transformed into quantitative binary matrix structures, the CA offers…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Robustness (Statistics)
Postareff, Liisa; Mattsson, Markus; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Hailikari, Telle – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
The demands and pressures during the first study year at university are likely to arouse a variety of emotions among students. Nevertheless, there are very few studies on the role of emotions in successful studying during the transition phase. The present study adopts a person-oriented and mixed-method approach to explore, first, the emotions…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Transitional Programs, Higher Education, Mixed Methods Research
Lutes, Lyndell; Davies, Randall – Education Sciences, 2018
This study compared student workload and perceived value of coursework assigned for a matching set of semester and term general education courses at Brigham Young University. Statistically significant differences in workloads were found between most semester and term courses. While term workloads were slightly lighter in general, both could be…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Scheduling, Study Habits
Snyder, Seth Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2017
College persistence and completion rates for students from families earning low incomes are consistently lower than for students from wealthy families. Some of these inequitable gaps may be associated with students' perceptions of fit and belonging at higher education institutions dominated by upper-middle-class systems and norms. This…
Descriptors: College Students, Low Income Students, Academic Persistence, Decision Making
Turhan, Burcu; Kirkgöz, Yasemin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
English is an access to a global society (Normark, 2013), which implies studying a specific subject area through English is crucial in today's educational arena. The reason behind this is that English is a motive for universities to gain a global status as Coleman (2006) argued. Thus, the focal point of this study is to reveal motivational…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Student Motivation, College Faculty
Cantinotti, Michael; Désormeaux-Moreau, Marjorie; Balbinotti, Marcos – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2017
Students in psychology generally have difficulties to successfully accomplish mandatory courses in statistics. Group peer-tutoring is a pedagogical strategy to support them with a peer that has already successfully mastered the content of such a course. In order to specifically tailor group peer-tutoring to the needs of students and to sustain…
Descriptors: Statistics, Psychology, Student Attitudes, Tutoring
Evans, Melissa S.; Massey-Stokes, Marilyn; Denson, Kathleen – Journal of Health Education Teaching, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to: (a) evaluate the effectiveness of a required Health-Related Fitness (HRF) course in changing dietary behaviors among community college (CC) students, and (b) explore student perceptions about the effectiveness of HRF curriculum activities in changing behaviors. Methods: Pre- and…
Descriptors: Health Related Fitness, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Food
Sahney, Sangeeta – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: Educational institutes must embrace the principles of total quality management (TQM) if they seek to remain competitive, and survive and succeed in the long run. An educational institution must embrace the principles of quality management and incorporate them into all of their activities. Starting with a theoretical background, the paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Total Quality Management, Models, Foreign Countries
Athens, Wendy – Online Learning, 2018
In an effort to characterize perceptions of learning community and engagement in relation to success for underrepresented populations of online learners at a public institution in southeastern United States, a survey was conducted in Spring 2016. The results of the survey were paired with institutional data to create a baseline engagement and…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Learner Engagement, Enrollment, Online Courses
Bazezew, Arega; Neka, Mulugeta – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Interpersonal conflict happens everywhere and at any time and is inherent in all societies. However, the methods of managing such conflict are quite different from one organisation to the other. The general objective of the study was to assess interpersonal conflicts and styles of managing conflicts among students at Bahir Dar University.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Relationship
Sorensen, Chris; Donovan, Judy – Online Learning, 2017
Online learning has continued to grow in recent years. However, retaining students in online courses and programs has posed a challenge. Whether the university is public, private, offers both face-to-face and online programs, or is 100% online, retaining students in online programs can be an issue. This study reflects the widespread desire at a…
Descriptors: College Students, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools, Online Courses
Kupers, Elisa; van Dijk, Marijn; van Geert, Paul – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Learning implies change. Inside and outside schools, we aim for students to change into people with more skills and knowledge as well as with a growing sense of agency and responsibility. Furthermore, education itself is subject to constant change. In this article, we examine change in 3 case studies in the context of individual music lessons from…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Music Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mixed Methods Research
Clark-Gordon, Cathlin V.; Bowman, Nicholas D.; Watts, Evan R.; Banks, Jaime; Knight, Jennifer M. – Communication Education, 2018
Research has established that students often consider the delivery of instructor feedback to be a face-threatening event. To minimize the potential negative effects of feedback, verbal and nonverbal face-threat mitigation (FTM) strategies are utilized by instructors. Advances in digital feedback systems, like online documents and learning…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Feedback (Response)
Hastings, Lindsay J.; Griesen, James V.; Hoover, Richard E.; Creswell, John W.; Dlugosh, Larry L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Preparing college students to be active contributors to the next generation is an important function of higher education. This assumption about generativity forms a cornerstone in this mixed methods study that examined generativity levels among 273 college students at a 4-year public university. MANCOVA results indicated that college students who…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Role of Education, Mixed Methods Research
Yilmaz, Özkan; Sanalan, Vehbi Aytekin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of mobile technology use in university science instruction on students' academic achievement and self-regulation skills. An experimental study is conducted to test the use of mobile in-class interaction system (M-CIS) and to determine the change in students' academic achievement and self-regulation…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning
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