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Partlo, Margaret; Ampaw, Frim – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2018
Relying heavily on case or regional studies, higher education institutions market the perceived global skills that students acquire from education abroad as a value-added commodity. As industries increase their global reach, understanding the labor market effects of education abroad from a national perspective is necessary and timely. This study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Regression (Statistics), Business Administration Education
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Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
The purpose of the study was to estimate the relationship between academic achievement in college, as defined by first-year grade point average (GPA), and self-authorship among African American first-year students at an HBCU (N = 140), using hierarchical linear regression techniques. A single research question guided this investigation: What is…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Success, College Freshmen
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You, Sukkyung; Nguyen, Julie – Educational Psychology, 2012
This study examined the relationship between academic preparation and post-secondary educational outcomes. To uncover the factors that influence secondary-level school course-taking patterns and outcomes, multi-level modelling was conducted using data from a nationally representative sample of US secondary-level school students from the Education…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Course Selection (Students), Educational Objectives, Correlation
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Crisp, Gloria; Delgado, Chryssa – Community College Review, 2014
Developmental education has been cited as one of the most difficult issues facing community colleges. Despite the controversy and changes to educational policy regarding developmental education, there is a notable dearth of rigorous research measuring the causal effect of remediation on community college student outcomes. The present study uses…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Academic Persistence
Rodriguez, Awilda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recent studies have revealed how large shares of college-ready students "undermatch", or enroll in colleges with less competitive admissions processes than they are eligible to attend. Undermatch sits at the nexus of both college access and completion agendas, as undermatching to a less selective institution results in a decreased…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Enrollment, Disproportionate Representation, College Choice
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Werblow, Jacob; Urick, Angela; Duesbery, Luke – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
Academic tracking has been shown to limit the quality of student instructional opportunities, decrease students' perceptions of their abilities, and negatively influence student achievement. These factors associated with academic tracking also may influence students in lower tracks to learn less and ultimately to drop out of high school. Few…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Academic Failure, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Wilson, James K., III – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to better predict how a first semester college freshman becomes prepared for college. The theoretical framework guiding this study is Vrooms' expectancy theory, motivation plays a key role in success. This study used a hierarchical multiple regression model. The independent variables of interest included high school…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, College Readiness, College Freshmen, College Preparation