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Direct linkJohnston, Michael; Wood, Bronwyn Elisabeth; Cherrington, Sue; Boniface, Suzanne; Mortlock, Anita – Educational Assessment, 2022
In this paper, we report an exploratory investigation of the types of assessment in a variety of high school subjects that best predicted subsequent success at university in those subjects. In social sciences and the humanities, internal (school-based) assessment was a better predictor of university success than external, examination-based…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Hojda, Paulina; Roszkowska, Sylwia; Trojak, Mariusz – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The study aims to examine the factors that determine the success of graduates in the labour market. This success is measured in several ways, namely, above-average wages in the economy, employment in accordance with the field of study and job satisfaction. The research explores the employment outcomes of graduates from Jagiellonian…
Descriptors: Labor Market, College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Success
Hailikari, Telle; Sund, Reijo; Haarala-Muhonen, Anne; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Despite vast research on transitioning to higher education and student diversity, little longitudinal evidence exists of how individual differences of first-year students predict their graduation times. The present study explored the relation between first-year students' study profiles and graduation times in two different disciplines, by…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Intellectual Disciplines, Legal Education (Professions), Humanities
Verniers, Catherine; Martinot, Delphine – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2015
The aim of the present study was to test whether the content of a gender stereotype concerning general academic achievement matched the characteristics deemed to predict success in the fields of higher education dominated by women and men respectively. A sample of 207 undergraduate students rated the extent to which characteristics ascribed to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Gender Differences
Download full textBrint, Steven; Cantwell, Allison M. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Using data from the 2008 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, we show that study time and academic conscientiousness were lower among students in humanities and social science majors than among students in science and engineering majors. Analytical and critical thinking experiences were no more evident among humanities and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Study, Social Sciences, Engineering
Ramasamy, Shamala – Online Submission, 2011
A component in the study of critical thinking which needs to be addressed is informal reasoning fallacy. It is a type of mental trickery which is able to self-deceive undergraduates and public at large. In order to practice good critical thinking, one has to detect and get rid of these fallacies. However, students have to be disposed in detecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Thinking Skills, Misconceptions
