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Download full textMilz, Sabine – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This observational study adds to a small number of college-specific studies comparing student performance in online and face-to-face versions of the same course. It also complements more largescale college-based studies that compare the delivery formats across courses, disciplines, and institutions. Using descriptive statistics and the chi-square…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Conventional Instruction, Electronic Learning
Direct linkKennett, Deborah J.; Reed, Maureen J.; Stuart, Amanda S. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2013
It is a well-known phenomenon that generally resourceful students are more likely to employ specific self-control skills, such as academic resourcefulness, to overcome stressors in their life, and as a result, are more likely to be better adjusted, to receive higher grades, and to remain in university than their less resourceful counterparts. To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Self Control, Stress Management
Jorgensen, Shirley; Fichten, Catherine; Havel, Alice – Online Submission, 2009
The main aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of why students abandon their studies, or perform less well than expected given their high school grades, and to develop predictive models that can help identify those students most at-risk at the time they enter college. This will allow teachers and those responsible for student…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Failure, Profiles
Cheng, Liying; Klinger, Don A.; Zheng, Ying – Language Testing, 2007
Results from the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) indicate that English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Literacy Development (ELD) students have comparatively low success and high deferral rates. This study examined the 2002 and 2003 OSSLT test performances of ESL/ELD and non-ESL/ELD students in order to identify and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Literacy
Grayson, J. Paul – 1996
This study examined voluntary and involuntary withdrawal rates of students of various racial origins at York University in Ontario (Canada). Data were obtained from three surveys of first-year students conducted in 1993, 1994, and 1995, and involving 1,864 students. Information on Ontario Academic Credit (OAC) marks, first year grade point…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, Black Students, College Students
Peer reviewedJohnson, Genevieve Marie – Preventing School Failure, 1997
A study of 56 inner-city Canadian teachers found they believed that student behavior and attitude combined with familial situations were strongly related to students becoming at risk for school failure. School violence and gangs, large class sizes, and limited school resources and programs were rated as moderately contributing to student risk. (CR)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence
