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Coria, Elizabeth; Hoffman, John L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between financial aid awards and measures of student academic achievement. Financial aid and academic records for 11,956 students attending an urban California community college were examined and analyzed using simultaneous linear regression and two-way factorial ANOVAs. Findings revealed a…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Community Colleges, Correlation, Regression (Statistics)
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Han, Suejung; Pistole, M. Carole; Caldwell, Jarred M. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2017
This study examined parental and professor attachment as buffers against acculturative stress and as predictors of college adjustment of 210 Asian international students (AISs). Moderated hierarchical regression analyses revealed that acculturative stress negatively and secure parental and professor attachment positively predicted academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Attachment Behavior, Student Adjustment, Acculturation
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Lyons, Paul; Bandura, Randall P. – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the value of student grade point average (GPA) as a predictor of pro-social, helpful behavior. This voluntary behavior has been shown to be highly valuable to managers and co-workers. GPA is not only predictive of success in core tasks on the job, it is also predictive of voluntary, helpful…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Predictor Variables, Helping Relationship, Prosocial Behavior
Spicer, Margaret I. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore possible relationships between the implicit theories of intelligence, self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, and academic achievement of undergraduate students enrolled at an HBCU in a mid-Atlantic state. Three instruments were used in this study: (a) the Implicit Theory of Intelligence Scale (TOI), (b)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Shoulders, Catherine W.; Johnson, Donald M.; O'Bryan, Corliss A.; Crandall, Philip G. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2018
The 1st step in successfully intervening with students who may fail a course is to identify them as early as possible in the semester. The objective of this study was to create a model to predict student performance in FDSC 4304, the required capstone Food Chemistry class, using academic performance in prerequisite courses as potential predictors.…
Descriptors: Models, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Science Achievement
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Chamberlin, Ashley; Nguyen-Rodriguez, Selena; Gray, Virginia B.; Reiboldt, Wendy; Peterson, Caitlin; Spruijt-Metz, Donna – Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: Existing literature indicates a relationship between stress and emotional eating in adults, yet limited research has examined the impact of school-related stress on emotional eating in adolescents. This study investigated the influence of academic factors on emotional eating among minority adolescents. Methods: A survey was implemented…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Self Esteem, Grade Point Average, Achievement Need
Lamana Finn, Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between attachment style, shyness, shame, and college persistence and grade point average. While considerable research was conducted to examine these variables in children, less is known about how these variables interact in a college setting. This study used a quantitative,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Academic Persistence, Grade Point Average
Smith, Ellen M. T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
An equitable predictor of academic success is needed as nursing education strives toward comprehensive preparation of diverse nursing students. The purpose of this study was to discover how Sedlacek's (2004a) Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) and Duckworth & Quinn's (2009) Grit-S predicted baccalaureate nursing student academic performance and…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Predictor Variables, Grade Point Average, College Entrance Examinations
Swafford, Stacy James – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined factors that may affect the retention of first-time, full-time college freshmen to sophomore year. Institutions in the Appalachian College Association (ACA) were invited to participate, and nine of the 35 member schools provided data. The research questions were (1) Is there a relationship between retention for students'…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Freshmen, Full Time Students, College Students
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Trant, Eleanore C.; Crabtree, Katelyn E.; Ciancio, Dennis J.; Hart, Leslie A.; Watson, Tiffany B.; Williams, Robert L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2015
The study we report here examined parental, pre-course, and in-course predictors of students' probability of retaining (n = 136) or losing the HOPE scholarship (n = 41). The study was conducted in a multi-section, entry-level course (n = 203) for the Teacher-Education Program at a large state university in the southeastern U.S. Logistic regression…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Preservice Teachers, Predictor Variables, State Universities
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LeMaistre, Tiffany; Shi, Qingmin; Thanki, Sandip – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
This study investigated the relationship between use of online library resources and student success at a small, teaching-focused, baccalaureate college. Researchers also measured whether library users were representative of the student population. Use of online library resources was a significant predictor of semester grade point average (GPA),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Library Services, Users (Information), Electronic Libraries
McFarland, Maureen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Predicting flight training success has been well researched in military aviation yet there is limited information pertaining to general aviation. The purpose of this study was to determine if attributes of pilot performance could be used to differentiate students in a collegiate flight training program. Several pre-entry and flight training…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Student Surveys
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Cholewa, Blaire; Hull, Michael F.; Babcock, Catherine R.; Smith, Alexandre D. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
The negative consequences associated with out-of-school suspension (OSS) are widely recognized, yet its commonly utilized counterpart, in-school suspension (ISS), has received little attention. This study examined school and student characteristics that predicted ISS and its links to academic outcomes, using the nationally representative High…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Suspension, Student Characteristics
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Hickman, Gregory P.; Sabia, Magaret F.; Heinrich, Randy; Nelson, LaCoñia; Travis, Frances; Veri, Tracy – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
The authors examined the predictive nature of attentional biases and initial grade point average of ninth graders dropping out of high school. Attentional biases are cognitive shifts in focus that are linked in both time and context toward stimuli perceived by an individual as threatening. Data were collected from 68 high school freshmen (45.6%…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, High School Freshmen, Predictor Variables
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Snyder, Jennifer; Cudney, Elizabeth A. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2017
During the last decade, there have been numerous reports detailing the importance of increasing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors in the United States. Simultaneously, an increasing number of studies are being developed to predict a student's success and completion of a STEM degree, recognizing that retention is a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Majors (Students), STEM Education
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