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Kate Ryan; Carlton J. Fong – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
Community colleges, or 2-year associate-degree granting institutions, tend to enroll large numbers of students deemed misprepared for college-level coursework. Such students may also not be as likely to seek help, a self-regulated activity that is challenging and fraught with social stigma. A key component of active learning and the help-seeking…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Help Seeking, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Sydnei L. Patton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study explored the level of student engagement that transfer students experience and how these levels can predict their persistence. This quantitative study utilized secondary data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). George Kuh's Theory of Student Engagement guided this study and influenced the development of the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students, College Freshmen
Aaron McClure – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Adult students constitute a large and increasing proportion of community college enrollment across the United States. For personal, economic, and sociological reasons, the success of these students is vital to the students themselves, the institutions they attend, and society as a whole. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine results from…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Success, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average
Lewis, Danna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative study is to assess if perceptions of academic and institutional support as well as demographic factors, predict intention to return to school amongst online first-generation college students enrolled at traditional higher educational institutions. To complete the causal-comparative study, the researcher analyzes…
Descriptors: Online Courses, First Generation College Students, Intention, Reentry Students
Corinne Bannon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the factors that predict the likelihood of a first-time freshman (FTF) student retaining and graduating in a timely manner at the University of Kansas (KU) based on their perceptions of the frequency and quality of student-faculty engagement, with an emphasis on exploring differences between underrepresented minority students…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Research Universities, Teacher Student Relationship, College Freshmen
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Fong, Carlton J.; García, Agustín J.; Kundu, Diptendu – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
To understand how to best support Latino male community college students, we used the Socio-Ecological Outcomes (SEO) model to examine factors associated with their achievement and college satisfaction. Specifically, we leveraged data from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and situated our study in developmental…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Student Satisfaction, Hispanic American Students
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Jones, Vinetta C.; Anderson, Kenneth Alonzo; Mahmood, Mohammad; Johnson, Ayanna – Urban Education, 2023
In this article, we review factors that are associated with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) achievement and describe the development of the Predictors of Black Outcomes in STEM Survey (PBOSS). We retain a well-fitted three-factor model (engagement, continuity, and guiding functions) and find that the PBOSS scores are…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, African American Students, Outcomes of Education, STEM Education
Reed, Kristin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to use existing data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to examine the relationship between student engagement indicators and NCAA Division I student-athletes' participation in high-impact practices, specifically internships and study abroad. Student engagement indicators were the independent…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Participation, Educational Practices, Student Athletes
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Parlier, T. Richard; Rocconi, Louis M.; Skolits, Gary; Davidson, Christopher T. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
This study investigated the relationship learning community participation has with community college students' perceived learning gains and engagement in educationally purposeful activities. Study data were sourced from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) with a total of 694 institutions and over 107,000 participants. To…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Participation, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes
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Miller, Angie L.; Alvarez Huerta, Paula – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Previous research suggests that creativity training is effective in academic settings, and that creative skills are increasingly important for success within unconventional careers such as self-employment or starting a business. This study extends research on creativity and entrepreneurial training in higher education, using data from the National…
Descriptors: College Seniors, College Freshmen, National Surveys, Learner Engagement
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Wang, Shutao; Zhang, Demei – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine the mediating effect of learning engagement on the relationship between perceived teacher feedback and college students' academic performance, and the moderating effect of assessment characteristics on the relationship between perceived teacher feedback and learning engagement. A sample of 2,458 students in a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Student Evaluation
Moody, Shanna Gail Ussery – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student aspirations and other background characteristics with student engagement level in their first year. Despite the knowledge that engagement is influential in student success outcomes, completion rates have not changed in more than thirty years (Gonyea, 2006). Hsieh (2014)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Student Characteristics, Learner Engagement, College Freshmen
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Yukhymenko-Lescroart, Mariya; Sharma, Gitima; Stephens, Jason M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
Academic misconduct has been conceptualized as students' engagement in various types of proscribed behaviors, such as plagiarism and cheating on assignments and tests or exams (e.g., Stephens et al., 2021). While most of the current literature on academic misconduct has focused on developed countries, the problem is rampant across the world (Krou…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Cheating, Mexicans, Foreign Countries
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Langan, A. Mark; Harris, W. Edwin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to use machine learning and exploratory data analysis to interrogate patterns of metrics from a national-level student survey. Analysis of over 1.8 million returns detected long-term stability of the predictors of student satisfaction, with survey items relating to course management and teaching being consistently most…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Research Methodology, Predictor Variables
Stephen R. Hirst – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The Hispanic community within the U.S. has steadily grown over the last few decades. People identifying as Latina/o/x are already the largest minority population and are projected to become 29% of the U.S. population by the year 2050 (Salinas, 2015). Since 1980, the number of school age children within the Latina/o/x community increased from 8.1%…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Community College Students, Learner Engagement, Student Surveys
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