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Lee, Jonathan; Leibowitz, Jami; Rezek, Jon – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
International virtual exchange is gaining popularity as an innovative approach to providing international experiences to students, particularly considering the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little research has been conducted on this unique teaching approach or how it fits into university comprehensive internationalization plans. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Study Abroad, Universities, College Students
Walton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked with many important life outcomes, including academic performance, performance on standardized college entrance exams, and college enrollment, although research on enrollment is limited. In this report, the authors present data points from a study that evaluated test-criterion validity…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, College Attendance, Postsecondary Education
Jan Blacher; Abbey Eisenhower – Grantee Submission, 2022
Viewed through a social justice lens, preschool expulsion is an educational equity issue. This study focused on prior expulsion from preschool and child-care in a longitudinal study of 203 autistic children, ages 4 to 7. By parent report, 16%--one out of six autistic children--had been expelled from a preschool or child-care setting prior to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Child Care, Expulsion
Caleb D. Marsh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The official stance of the Association America of Medical Colleges (AAMC) regarding the undergraduate major of applicants for admission to medical school is that there are no required or preferred majors. While the AAMC is the body that governs admission to allopathic medical schools in the United States, this statement does not provide clarity to…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Undergraduate Students, Majors (Students), College Admission
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Chatterjee, Ayona; Marachi, Christine; Natekar, Shruti; Rai, Chinki; Yeung, Fanny – College Student Journal, 2018
Improving graduation rates is one of the biggest missions in many universities across the country and it is surely the case on the campus of this institution. The work here presents a statistical tool box to use early academic performance as a predictor for graduation with logistic regression and machine learning techniques. The methods described…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Student Characteristics, Graduation, Probability
Mitic, Radomir Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study contributes new evidence on the factors associated with undergraduate study abroad participation and post-college civic engagement, with particular attention on the moderating influence of first-generation college student status. Drawing on Education Longitudinal Study 2002-2012 data, this study analyzes how students' ascribed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, Citizen Participation, Student Characteristics
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Whatley, Melissa – Community College Review, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study is twofold. First, this study explores individual student characteristics, specifically those related to demographics, financial need, academic characteristics, and social and cultural capitals, related to study abroad participation among community college students. Second, this study identifies when over the…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Study Abroad, Student Characteristics
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Rentz, Bradley; Holquist, Samantha E.; Arens, Sheila A.; Stuit, David; Rhinesmith, Evan; Nicotera, Anna; Plotz, Margot – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
The Palau Ministry of Education and Palau Community College are aligning their education systems to better prepare students for college. Research on the high school academic preparation variables that predict college success is limited for students in Palau. Using data from Palau's Ministry of Education and Palau Community College, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Readiness, High School Students, College Preparation
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Rentz, Bradley; Holquist, Samantha E.; Arens, Sheila A.; Stuit, David; Rhinesmith, Evan; Nicotera, Anna; Plotz, Margot – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
The Palau Ministry of Education and Palau Community College are aligning their education systems to better prepare students for college. Research on the high school academic preparation variables that predict college success is limited for students in Palau. Using data from Palau's Ministry of Education and Palau Community College, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Readiness, High School Students, College Preparation
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Rhinehart, Laura; Iyer, Sai; Haager, Diane – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2022
Approximately one in 10 children in the United States is diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a disability that can negatively affect academic achievement, yet relatively few children with ADHD are in special education. To better understand factors that determine which students with ADHD are in special education, we…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
These are the appendices to the report, "Using High School Data to Predict College Success in Palau" (ED610714). Prior research, particularly for the United States, has shown that earning a community college credential increases an individual's likelihood of gaining stable employment, earning a living wage, and working in a higher-paying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Readiness, High School Students, College Preparation
Ling, Jizhi; Radunzel, Justine – ACT, Inc., 2017
A majority of high school graduates aspire to earn a college degree (ACT, 2016), yet many students are graduating from high school unprepared to do college-level work. As a result, about one-third of college freshmen enroll in at least one developmental course upon entry to college (Skomsvold, 2014). Because developmental courses are often not…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Readiness, Probability, Student Characteristics
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Korhonen, Vesa; Rautopuro, Juhani – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Finland offers a specific example of a country with a broad enrolment in higher education, where the educational starting age is relatively high and where studies may last considerably longer than in most other European countries. This study attempted to identify at-risk students in Finnish universities with the greatest probability of…
Descriptors: College Students, At Risk Students, Dropouts, Probability
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Catalano, Hannah Priest; Richard, Keith; Hawkins, Katherine Hyatt – Health Educator, 2017
This study tested a theory of planned behavior (TPB)-based model in predicting human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination intentions and series completion among university students. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional design was utilized with a convenience sample of 281 university students, including 40.9% nonvaccinees, 19.6% vaccine initiators, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Communicable Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs
Dan Goldhaber; John Krieg; Roddy Theobald – Center for Education Data & Research, 2016
We use data from six Washington State teacher education programs to investigate the relationship between teacher candidates' student teaching experiences and their later teaching effectiveness and probability of attrition. We find that teachers who student taught in schools with lower teacher turnover are less likely to leave the state's teaching…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Mobility
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