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Kerwin Winston Graham – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationships among leadership style, job satisfaction (JSAT), willingness to exert extra effort (EEE), and job self-efficacy (JSE) within the admissions departments of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) in the United States. Drawing from Maslow's (1943) hierarchy of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Leadership Styles, Questionnaires, Transformational Leadership
Spaniol, Scott R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research suggests that student success in mathematics is positively correlated to math self-efficacy and negatively correlated to math anxiety. At a Hispanic serving community college in the Midwest, developmental math students had a lower pass rate than did college-level math students, but the role of math self-efficacy and math anxiety on these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Hispanic American Students, Mathematics Education
Berry, Chelsia – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in science dual enrollment courses influenced African American high school students' post-secondary aspirations that will lead to college attendance. The investigation examined the relationship between African American students' learning experiences and how their self-efficacy and outcome…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Science Education, High School Students, STEM Education
Lockard, Steven A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Preparing students to be college or career ready in the 21st Century starts with the foundational skills they acquire in elementary school. Elementary school principals must work to ensure that, not only do they have a belief in their own abilities to provide this foundation, but that their school improvement efforts are reflected in the results…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Principals, Reading Achievement, Administrator Attitudes
Hancock, Sean C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In response to the continued reduction in higher education funding at the state and federal levels, educational administrators at both public and private institutions have had to reduce the number of course offerings, resulting in layoffs of those faculty members who do not meet regulated degree requirements for enough courses to retain their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Effectiveness, Models
Fry, Donald W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
While withdrawal from higher education may be the result of many reasons both within and beyond the control of the student or the institution, the intent of not returning to higher education indicates the acceptance of a permanent disassociation with the pursuit of the higher education endeavor. It is of paramount importance in understanding the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Causal Models, Academic Persistence
Kim, Byunggook – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine a conceptual framework for an individual's subjective perception of leisure that contributes to Subjective Well-Being (SWB). More specifically, this study was an attempt to examine causal relationships among social cognitive variables, subjective perception of leisure, and SWB. A survey was administered to…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Well Being, Social Cognition, College Students