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Attuquayefio, Samuel NiiBoi – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2022
The purpose of this study is to investigate students' intention to use ICT and use behaviour for learning and research by extending the UTAUT model with Health Issues and satisfaction as mediating variables between ergonomics factors and intention to use ICT relationship. This study employed a survey, which used a questionnaire to elicit data from…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Technology Integration, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education
Jeynes, William H. – Education and Urban Society, 2017
This meta-analysis of 28 studies examines the relationship between parental involvement and the academic achievement and school behavior of Latino pre-kindergarten-college-age children. Analyses determined the effect sizes for parental involvement overall and specific categories of involvement. Results indicate a significant relationship between…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Parent Participation, Hispanic Americans, Outcomes of Education
McCowan, Tristan – London Review of Education, 2018
The impact of higher education institutions on society has become the focus of significant policy attention in recent years, most prominently as part of research evaluation. This paper presents a theoretical exploration of the notion, identifying the key dimensions as source, form, trajectory, intensity, timescale and destination. While…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy, Educational History
Brech, Felicitas M.; Messer, Uwe; Vander Schee, Brian A.; Rauschnabel, Philipp A.; Ivens, Bjoern S. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2017
Although many universities use social media to interact with stakeholders, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Drawing on theories of self-presentation and community engagement, we develop a theoretical model to explain these crucial outcome factors. We then test the model based on secondary data from 159 universities. Our findings…
Descriptors: Social Media, Higher Education, Interaction, School Community Relationship
Rosch, David M.; Collier, Daniel A.; Zehr, Sarah M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2014
A sample (N = 81) of undergraduates participating in a semester-long team-project engineering course completed assessments of their leadership competence, motivation to lead, and leadership self-efficacy, as well as the leadership competence of their peers who served within their durable teams. Results indicated that peers scored students lower…
Descriptors: Competence, Self Efficacy, Motivation, Undergraduate Students
Kittendorf, Lorie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Student persistence and achievement are areas of significant concern for institutions of higher education. With national college graduation rates hovering in the 50% range, it is important for colleges and universities to understand which student characteristics and campus environments lead to greater success, as well as the expectations students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Freshmen, Majors (Students), Expectation
Patterson, Vandiver L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the annual revenue received by United States public community college foundations from 2008-2009 in relation to selected variables associated in the literature with successful foundation performance. This study also attempted to collect longitudinal data by replicating and expanding upon a similar…
Descriptors: Full Time Equivalency, Regression (Statistics), Effect Size, Geographic Location
Partin, Matthew L.; Haney, Jodi J.; Worch, Eric A.; Underwood, Eileen M.; Nurnberger-Haag, Julie A.; Scheuermann, Amy; Midden, W. Robert – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
Undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory biology course for nonmajors during the fall semester of 2007 were administered the Biology Attitude Scale (Russell and Hollander 1975), a constructed Mathematics Attitude Scale, and a portion of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich and Smith 1993). Together, the…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Incentives
Kittle, Kris J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Service-learning continues to gain in popularity across the higher education landscape and can be found in most educational institutions. Although more often found in student affairs programming, it is also viewed as a viable pedagogy. Most studies show that service-learning impacts students in various ways: academically, socially and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Social Integration, Multivariate Analysis
Thompson, Bruce; And Others – 1991
Problems with using stepwise analytic methods are discussed, and better alternatives are illustrated. To make the illustrations concrete, an actual data set, involving responses of 91 medical school admissions directors to 30 variables, was used. The 30 variables involved perceptions of barriers to medical school with respect to characteristics of…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, Data Interpretation, Effect Size, Higher Education

Kulik, Chen-Lin C.; Kulik, James A. – AEDS Journal, 1986
This meta analysis of 101 studies of computer-based education in colleges highlights examination performance, student attitudes toward instruction and computers, the relationship of publication source to study outcome, and time needed for instruction. One hundred twenty-one references are listed. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Effect Size, Higher Education
Cohen, Peter A. – 1986
A meta analysis was conducted of studies of college students' evaluations of their teachers. Forty-seven studies were included, representing 74 multisection courses, in which four selection criteria were met. An actual, rather than an experimental class was used; the unit of analysis was the class rather than the individual student; a common…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Research, College Faculty