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Mogaladi, Tshegofatso; Mlambo, Motlatso – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2022
Public higher education institutions in South Africa conduct Student Representative Council (SRC) elections yearly. However, there is a paucity of studies to determine factors that affect voter turnout in these elections. This descriptive quantitative study conducted an empirical analysis of factors influencing students' voter participation at…
Descriptors: Voting, College Students, Distance Education, Student Government
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Palacios Mena, Nancy; Ariza Bulla, John Fredy – Quality in Higher Education, 2023
This article studies the relationship between the socioeconomic conditions of higher education students in Colombia and their academic performance during the pandemic. The household's socioeconomic conditions are approximated by the education level of the parents, their occupation and the possession of assets. A multiple regression model tests the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Bilgin, Okan; Ince, Murat; Yesilyurt, Erhan – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The present study aims to investigate the relationship between university students' school climate and their motivation levels. In this study, whether the school climate and motivation levels differ according to gender and year of study also been examined. The "School Climate Scale for University Students" and "Adult Motivation…
Descriptors: College Students, College Environment, Student Motivation, Environmental Influences
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Serrano Corkin, Danya M.; Lindt, Suzanne F.; Williams, Patrick S. – Learning Environments Research, 2021
Understanding factors within college learning environments that can ameliorate maladaptive academic behaviours such as procrastination could contribute to enhancing college students' success and persistence. Thus, the aims of the current study were to investigate: (a) the degree to which facets of the college classroom motivational environment…
Descriptors: College Environment, Classroom Environment, Student Motivation, Time Management
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Addison, Letetia; Williams, Densil – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to provide a parsimonious but rigorous model to assist decision-makers to determine critical factors which can lead to higher graduation rates amongst higher education institution (HEI) participants. It predicts the odds of dropout amongst university students, using HEI data from a developing country. This is used as a…
Descriptors: Prediction, School Holding Power, College Students, Graduation Rate
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Ricco, Robert B.; Badiee, Manijeh – College Student Journal, 2020
Mothers pursuing higher education represent a substantial and growing percentage of college students across the U.S. Previous research with this population is relatively scant and, generally, has not considered age differences among college mothers. The present study sought to identify predictors of parent role and student role efficacy in college…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy, College Students, Mothers
Morenike Adebodun – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive power of Academic and Learning Analytics models on the persistence, retention, and graduation rates for students enrolled in higher education institutions in the United States. Specifically, this study is concerned with the relationships between the present usage of Academic and Learning…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Learning Analytics, Academic Achievement, Higher Education
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Ünsal Özbek, Elif Bengi; Yetkiner, Alper – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
The developments and changes that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the educational world and all sectors. Educational institutions around the world have implemented emergency and online educational practises to ensure continuity of education as opposed to the planned distance education activities that were implemented for…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Classification, Instructional Effectiveness, Electronic Learning
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Dalkiran, Oguzhan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between the attendance of theoretical and applied field courses and the success status of the students attending Sports Science Faculty. The data of the study consisted of 68 female and 88 male students in the Faculty of Sports Sciences; two lectures and two practicals, and 624 grade points and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Success, Attendance, Statistical Analysis
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Kozan, Hatice Irem Ozteke; Kesici, Sahin; Buyukbayraktar, Cagla Girgin; Yalcin, S. Barbaros – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Aim of this research is to examine the predictive power of attachment style on problematic internet use among university students. Participants of study consist of 481 university students (230 girls). Results indicate that there is a negative correlation between secure attachment style and social benefit/social comfort and there is a positive…
Descriptors: Prediction, Internet, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Kemper, Lorenz; Vorhoff, Gerrit; Wigger, Berthold U. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
We perform two approaches of machine learning, logistic regressions and decision trees, to predict student dropout at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The models are computed on the basis of examination data, i.e. data available at all universities without the need of specific collection. Therefore, we propose a methodical approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Potential Dropouts, School Holding Power
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Oral, Tuncay; Arslan, Coskun – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of the study is to investigate forgiveness levels of university students in terms of self-compassion, rumination and personality traits. A descriptive-correlational was used and self-administered questionnaires were conducted in this study. Participants of the study were 840 university students (460 females, 380 males) from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Altruism, College Students, Self Concept
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Thompson, E. David; Bowling, Bethany V.; Markle, Ross E. – Research in Science Education, 2018
Studies over the last 30 years have considered various factors related to student success in introductory biology courses. While much of the available literature suggests that the best predictors of success in a college course are prior college grade point average (GPA) and class attendance, faculty often require a valuable predictor of success in…
Descriptors: Success, Biology, Science Instruction, Predictor Variables
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Webb, Patrick – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2018
The existence of a race-based stigma has been well documented among adolescents and young adults within higher educational settings; however, similar studies among students at historically Black universities are rare. Specifically, the 'acting white' accusation is a common, and yet seldom openly discussed phenomenon that exist within the African…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Black Colleges, Stereotypes
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Wolters, Christopher A.; Won, Sungjun; Hussain, Maryam – Metacognition and Learning, 2017
The primary goal of this study was to investigate whether college students' academic time management could be used to understand their engagement in traditional and active forms of procrastination within a model of self-regulated learning. College students (N = 446) completed a self-report survey that assessed motivational and strategic aspects of…
Descriptors: Time Management, Metacognition, Predictor Variables, College Students
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