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Nathan Mentzer; Elnara Mammadova; Adrie Koehler; Lakshmy Mohandas; Shawn Farrington – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
During COVID, HyFlex gained popularity and became a "new normal" that educators need to consider as an effective instructional approach. Previous research offers conflicting findings related to the impact of HyFlex instruction on students' basic psychological needs and academic performance. Our investigation provides insight into a…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Academic Achievement, Pandemics, COVID-19
Tan, Li; Main, Joyce B.; Darolia, Rajeev – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: Given the importance of engineers to a nation's economy and potential innovation, it is imperative to encourage more students to consider engineering as a college major. Previous studies have identified a broad range of high school experiences and demographic factors associated with engineering major choice; however, these factors have…
Descriptors: High School Students, Predictor Variables, Majors (Students), Engineering Education
Qian, Cheng; Koedel, Cory – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
We examine the potential to expand and diversify the production of university STEM degrees by shifting the margin of initial enrollment between community colleges and 4-year universities. Our analysis is based on statewide administrative microdata from the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development covering enrollees in all…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, College Enrollment, Enrollment
Mitchell, Jeannette C.; Mitchell, Johanna E. – American Journal of Business Education, 2017
This study evaluates an interactive web-based homework designed to increase student understanding in a principles of microeconomics course. Employing concepts from Action Research, the preliminary investigation was undertaken based on assumptions about the efficacy of online educational resources. Do students who do well on online homework improve…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Homework, Economics Education, Microeconomics
Mackie, Michele Matteo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop a portrait of students with psychological conditions, to determine the predictors of sense of belonging for these students, and to draw comparisons between the collegiate experiences of students with, and those without, psychological conditions. Using data from the 2009 Multi-Institutional Study of…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mental Disorders, Educational Experience, College Students
Weems, Amy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 2001, the Louisiana Board of Regents adopted the "Louisiana Master Plan for Public Postsecondary Education: 2001" as a signal for new accountability standards in Louisiana institutions of higher education. The purpose of this study was to examine the power of the academic criteria utilized by the "Master Plan" to predict…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Master Plans, Public Colleges, Predictor Variables
Cox, Leah Kendra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines student's perception of the campus racial climate and interactional diversity at selective undergraduate liberal arts institutions through an examination of data collected in the 2005 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Student responses are selected from institutions identified as members of a specified group of…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Gender Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment
Campbell, K. Celeste; Fuqua, Dale R. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2008
This study identified factors that were potential predictors of student completion in a collegiate honors program, evaluated the relative predictive importance of these factors, and used them to describe how the completion groups differed. Records were examined from 336 freshman honors program participants at a large, Midwestern, public…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Class Rank, Academically Gifted, Grade Point Average
Cheng, Dorothy; Walters, Matthew – Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 2009
The Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program at the University of Minnesota has drawn from the best practices of Supplemental Instruction, Peer-Led Team Learning, Structured Learning Assistance, the Emerging Scholars Program, and other successful postsecondary peer cooperative learning models to establish guiding principles for structuring learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Peer Teaching, Program Effectiveness, College Mathematics

Brown, Ulysses J. III; Jara, Ursula; Braxton, Erika – College Student Journal, 2005
This paper examined the attitudes and perceptions of urban college students regarding Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) awareness and prevention. AIDS has devastated the lives of citizens in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that the AIDS incidence rate for young Americans between the ages of 13 to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Prevention, Disease Control, College Students
Cohn, Elchanan; Cohn, Sharon; Balch, Donald C.; Bradley, James, Jr. – Economics of Education Review, 2004
The primary purpose of the study is to assess the degree to which SAT scores, high-school GPA (HSGPA) and class rank predict success in college. Data collected from students enrolled in several sections of Principles of Economics at the University of South Carolina in 2000 and 2001 are used to study the relation between college GPA (the dependent…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, High School Students