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Ugwu, Dorothy N.; Adamuti-Trache, Maria – Journal of International Students, 2017
This study examines the post-graduation plans of international science and engineering doctoral students at a public research-intensive university, and the extent to which graduate school experiences influence post-graduation plans. The study is grounded in Tinto's Integration Model as well as Berry's Acculturation Model. Study findings highlight…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Research Universities
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Toven-Lindsey, Brit; Levis-Fitzgerald, Marc; Barber, Paul H.; Hasson, Tama – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2015
The 6-yr degree-completion rate of undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors at U.S. colleges and universities is less than 40%. Persistence among women and underrepresented minorities (URMs), including African-American, Latino/a, Native American, and Pacific Islander students, is even more troubling, as these…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
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Smedema, Susan Miller; Chan, Fong; Yaghmaian, Rana A.; Cardoso, Elizabeth DaSilva; Muller, Veronica; Keegan, John; Dutta, Alo; Ebener, Deborah J. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2015
This study examined the factorial structure of the construct core self-evaluations (CSE) and tested a mediational model of the relationship between CSE and life satisfaction in college students with disabilities. We conducted a quantitative descriptive design using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis.…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Life Satisfaction, Disabilities
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She, Hsiao-Ching; Liao, Ya-Wen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
This study reports an adaptive digital learning project, Scientific Concept Construction and Reconstruction (SCCR), and examines its effects on 108 8th grade students' scientific reasoning and conceptual change through mixed methods. A one-group pre-, post-, and retention quasi-experimental design was used in the study. All students received tests…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Interviews, Scientific Concepts, Grade 8
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Lubke, Gitta H.; Hudziak, James J.; Derks, Eske M.; van Bijsterveldt, Toos C. E. M.; Boomsma, Dorret I. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: To investigate whether items assessing attention problems provide evidence of quantitative differences or categorically distinct subtypes of attention problems (APs) and to investigate the relation of empirically derived latent classes to "DSM-IV" diagnoses of subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), for…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Child Behavior, Severity (of Disability)
Young, Deidra J.; Fraser, Barry J. – 1993
The purpose of this study is to investigate science achievement of Australian students and how this achievement can vary from school to school. The proposition that gender and socioeconomic inequities in Australia are the result of school systems designed to reproduce an unequal social order is be examined with reference both to current…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Equal Education, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries