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Sun, Jingping – Journal of Educational Administration, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a critical path through which school leadership travels to students by highlighting the importance of teacher commitment. Design/methodology/approach: Using both meta-analytic and narrative review methods, this paper systematically reviews the evidence in the past 20 years about the…
Descriptors: Databases, Online Searching, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes
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Crisp, Gloria; Taggart, Amanda; Nora, Amaury – Review of Educational Research, 2015
A systematic review was conducted to produce an up-to-date and comprehensive summary of qualitative and quantitative evidence specific to the factors related to undergraduate Latina/o student academic success outcomes during college. The purpose of the study was to make sense of and provide critique to this rapidly growing body of research, as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement, Qualitative Research
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Markoulakis, Roula; Kirsh, Bonnie – Review of Higher Education, 2013
Postsecondary institutions are witnessing an increase in the number and severity of student mental health problems, necessitating an understanding of the difficulties these students encounter in striving for higher education. The authors conducted a critical interpretive synthesis of 10 articles pertaining to difficulties experienced by students…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Academic Achievement, Disclosure
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Leader, Lars F.; Klein, James D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1996
Describes a study that investigated the effects of search tools and learner cognitive styles on performance in searches for information within a hypermedia database. Students in a university English-as-a-Second-Language program were assigned to one of four treatment groups, and results show a significant interaction between search tool and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Style, Databases
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Ennis, Demetria L. – Computers in the Schools, 1993
Discussion of computer literacy, database technology, and higher-order thinking skills focuses on a study that compared the problem-solving performance of fourth-grade students receiving search strategy training during computer-assisted instruction with students who did not receive training. Time spent on problems and the number of correct answers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers