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Download full textDawson, Chris – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
Accumulated evidence indicates that low spatial ability makes a contribution, separate from levels of general or verbal intelligence, to the unlikelihood of students enrolling in, or succeeding in, STEM subjects. Further, there is a tendency for female students not to perform as well as males on some spatial tests, suggesting that this might be…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, STEM Education, Course Selection (Students), Gender Differences
Direct linkLinda Fergusson-Kolmes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this non-experimental, quantitative study was to investigate the relationship of course-taking patterns of community college students enrolled in a major's biology sequence to successful transfer into a biology or biology-related degree track at four-year institutions. The research was guided by the seminal work of Adelman (1999,…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, Biology, Community College Students, Course Selection (Students)
Crawford, Ian; Wang, Zhiqi; Andrews, Georgina – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the low placement participation rate among international students compared with UK students, by examining the impact of individual factors such as gender and domicile and academic achievement such as prior academic qualification, prior academic results and subsequent academic results on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Foreign Students, Student Participation
You, Sukkyung – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
In 2004, the pattern in academic pathways for high school students in the USA showed that students were completing more demanding mathematics courses. Despite the upward pattern in advanced-level mathematics course-taking, disparities among racial/ethnic groups persisted between 1982 and 2004. Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Course Selection (Students), Gender Differences, Ethnic Diversity
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Noble, Julie; Powell, Douglas A. – 1995
The relationships between course work taken, educational needs and plans, high school attended, and PLAN test scores of high school sophomores were examined. The PLAN tests are higher-order thinking skills tests that are used in educational planning for individuals and in program and curriculum evaluation. The relationships between ethnicity of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Course Selection (Students), Educational Planning
Peer reviewedSobral, D. T. – Higher Education, 1992
A scale of course appeal was tested on medical students in preclinical courses. Results showed that positive (pleasure, satisfaction) or negative (anxiety, grief) student reactions were substantially correlated with an independent measure, the Course Valuing Inventory. In addition, different student adaptation modes appeared to correspond to…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Educational Benefits, Higher Education, Individual Differences
