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Summer Odom; Ann Bianchi – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To implement a STI risk behavior reduction program to reduce sexual risk behaviors in university-aged students. Participants: Fifty-nine freshman from the university participated in the STI Risk Behavior Reduction program. Methods: Pre- and post-test design using descriptive statistics evaluated the STI Risk Behavior Reduction Program.…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Risk, College Freshmen, Sexuality
NaLette Brodnax – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
This article reports on the impacts of a nudge intervention designed to narrow the gender gap in technology education. I randomly assigned approximately 4,000 college freshmen to one of three advising interventions during new student orientation. Students in the treatment group received a brochure containing information about technology courses…
Descriptors: Intervention, College Freshmen, School Orientation, Technology Education
Benjamin Buck Blankenship; Jon Lee – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study was intended to investigate a small-scale School-based Motivational Interviewing (SBMI) pilot with first-year college students. This approach honors student autonomy, supports self-determination and has the potential to impact educational outcomes in higher education. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence based…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Self Determination, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation
Victoria S. Glena; Aislin R. Mushquash; John K. Gotwals; Kathryn E. Sinden; Erin S. Pearson – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To determine the impact of four classroom-based sessions on mindfulness and symptoms of psychological distress among first-year students. A secondary objective was to explore participants' involvement experiences. Participants: First-year undergraduate students at a Canadian university were recruited. Methods: A mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mental Health, College Freshmen, Intervention
Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Sense of belonging is a basic human need, which has been consistently correlated with positive educational outcomes such as good grades, retention, and satisfaction in college. Using a quasi-experimental research design, we analyzed data from 115 respondents to assess the impact of a short video intervention on first-year students' sense of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, College Freshmen, Sense of Community
Sharma, Shailja; Palomares-Fernandez, Ronald – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a mindfulness-based intervention among college students with externalizing behaviors and attentional problems. Participants: Three students attending their first year in college received mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention and data were collected…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Dawn Lyken-Segosebe; Michael Sparrow – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
Academic and social deficits, a nine-month secondary school-to-university learning loss, a readiness gap for university-level coursework, and limited cultural capital characterize the transition to university for Botswana's secondary school completers seeking a STEM qualification. This study investigated internationally implemented developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Transition, Transitional Programs, College Preparation
Christopher Thomas Long – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed-methods case study investigated changes to first year, first-generation (FYFG) college students' visual thinking and learning while enrolled in a 15-week academic success course (ASC) with a focus on meta-learning. The researcher found that a 5-week meta-learning intervention within the ASC helped six focal participants enact changes to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Freshmen, Metacognition, Intervention
Diane Cardenas Elliott; Dianna Sand; Elizabeth Jones – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: College placement assessments in the USA have underperformed in predicting college readiness. This has prompted a wave of reforms to placement practices and policies. Recently, student preparation for placement assessments has come to the forefront as a means for enabling better evaluation of college readiness. In this study, the authors…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Placement Tests, Intervention, Readiness
Pablo Chust-Hernandez; Emelina Lopez-Gonzalez; Joan Maria Senent-Sanchez – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2024
Introduction: Academic stress is a major problem in higher education and can be a risk factor for future academic and mental health problems. Programs to reduce it have focused on psychological interventions (mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, etc.), ignoring interventions focused on promoting study and learning skills. High academic…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Self Efficacy, College Freshmen, Nursing Students
Wyrick, David L.; Tanner, Amanda E.; Milroy, Jeffrey J.; Guastaferro, Kate; Bhandari, Sandesh; Kugler, Kari C.; Thorpe, Shemeka; Ware, Samuella; Miller, Alicia M.; Collins, Linda M. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: To describe an iterative approach to developing an online intervention targeting the intersection of alcohol use and sexual behaviors among first year college students. Methods and Participants: Using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), we conducted two iterative optimization trials to--(1) identify candidate intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Online Courses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sex Education
Zorzo, Candela; Fernández-Baizán, Cristina; Gutiérrez-Menéndez, Alba; Banquer, María; Higarza Sara G.; Méndez, Marta – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The Representations of science in mass media have shown a significant increase in the last years. However, mass media dissemination activities can extend to pseudoscience due to the fact that not all scientific news are published with the same rigour. Thus, we aimed to develop two theoretical-practical interventions among first-year university…
Descriptors: Intervention, Knowledge Level, Information Dissemination, College Freshmen
Patcharin Katsatasri; Nattapon YoTha; Phamornpun Yurayat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
The purposes of the current study were to 1) develop a learning burnout assessment for Thai undergraduate students and 2) examine the effects of a positive thinking training program on Thai undergraduate students' learning burnout. The study was divided into two parts: the instrumental development of the assessment tool and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Burnout, Test Construction, Positive Attitudes
Carlyle, Kellie E.; Conley, Abigail H.; Guidry, Jeanine P. D. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Sexual and dating violence (SV/DV) on college campuses is a pervasive problem with far-reaching implications for public health. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a widely disseminated SV/DV primary prevention program, the Red Flag Campaign (RFC). Participants and Methods: An online survey was administered to 203…
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Sexual Abuse, Violence, Prevention
Edna Orozco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas are one of the fastest-growing majors in the nation, engineering, is projected to add the second largest number of new jobs from 2016 to 2026 with 140,000 new jobs (Torpey, 2018). Unfortunately, there is a disparity between enrollment and graduation rates (Chen, 2015; Lucas &…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, STEM Careers, Intervention