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Appelrouth, Jed I.; Zabrucky, Karen M.; Moore, DeWayne – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2017
Attaining successful outcomes on the SAT can have profound educational and financial consequences for college-bound students. Using archival data from a private tutoring centre, we investigated variables we hypothesised to contribute to SAT score increases. Our analyses revealed significant effects of time on task and rate of SAT homework…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Coaching, Scores, Time on Task
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Yoo, Hanwook; Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Ballard, Laura D. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2023
As the theme of the 2022 annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, cultivating equitable education systems has gained renewed attention amid an increasingly diverse society. However, systemic inequalities persist for traditionally underserved student populations. As a way to better address diverse students' needs, it is of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Language, English Language Learners, Multilingualism
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Akos, Patrick; Kretchmar, Jen – Review of Higher Education, 2017
Admissions professionals have historically relied on measures of cognitive ability and academic achievement to make decisions about which applicants are admitted to their institutions. At the very least, selection on the basis of these factors (high school grades and standardized test scores) alone potentially decreases ethnic and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Student Characteristics, Persistence, Grade Point Average
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Pei, Zhengwei; Wu, Yidi; Xiang, Xiaocui; Qian, Huimin – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigates 128 Chinese college students to examine the effects of their musical aptitude and musical training on phonological production in four foreign languages. Results show that musically-trained students remarkably possessed stronger musical aptitude than those without musical training and performed better than their counterpart…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Music Education, Ability
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Vela, Javier C.; Lu, Ming-Tsan P.; Lenz, A. Stephen; Hinojosa, Karina – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2015
Positive psychology is a useful framework to understand Latina/o students' experiences. In the current study, we examined how presence of meaning in life, search for meaning in life, hope, and family importance influenced 128 Latina/o college students' psychological grit. We used the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), Subjective Happiness Scale,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Predictor Variables, Resilience (Psychology), Family Influence
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Fabbi, Jennifer L. – College & Research Libraries, 2015
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between a sample of first-time college freshmen students' high school experiences that are developmentally related to information literacy competency and their scores on the iSkills assessment. iSkills is an online evaluation developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which tests…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, High School Students, Student Experience, Information Literacy
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Huber, David J.; Conway, James M. – Planning and Changing, 2015
This study evaluated the hypothesis that schools in Connecticut's Alliance Districts (lowest-performing districts) with higher-quality school improvement plans (SIPs) would have higher levels of student achievement. An exploratory research question evaluated whether SIPs predicted achievement of particular subgroups. SIPs were obtained and scored…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Educational Quality
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Theobald, Roddy; Freeman, Scott – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
Although researchers in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education are currently using several methods to analyze learning gains from pre- and posttest data, the most commonly used approaches have significant shortcomings. Chief among these is the inability to distinguish whether differences in learning gains are due…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Student Characteristics, Educational Research
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Baier, Stefanie T.; Markman, Barry S.; Pernice-Duca, Francesca M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
We surveyed 237 first-time college students to examine the extent to which social-cognitive factors--self-efficacy, perceptions of mentorship, high school GPA, ACT scores, first-semester college GPA, and demographic characteristics-- influence freshmen's intent to persist. Standard multiple regression and MANOVA were conducted to determine the…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, College Freshmen, Social Influences, Self Efficacy
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Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Oh, Youn Joo; Seli, Helena; Jung, Matthew – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore the motivational characteristics and learning behaviors affecting at-risk college students. To explore how motivation and learning behaviors are related to academic achievement, the relationships between (a) self-efficacy; (b) learning and study strategy indicators; and (c) academic outcomes were assessed.…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Outcomes of Education, College Freshmen, Prediction
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Karasu, H. Pelin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Written expression skills play an important role in the development of the linguistic, academic and social skills of individuals from their school years onwards. The aim of this study was to evaluate the written expression performance of hearing-impaired students who receive auditory-oral education, and examine the student characteristics that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Hearing Impairments
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Sitticharoon, Chantacha; Srisuma, Sorachai; Kanavitoon, Sawita; Summachiwakij, Sarawut – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
The relationships among the scores of major subjects taught in the first preclinical year of a Thai medical school, previous academic achievements, and daily life activities are rarely explored. We therefore performed an exploratory study identifying various factors possibly related to the educational scores of these medical students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Scores, Correlation
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Gipson, John – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2016
Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine what pre-college characteristics predict college success for students of color enrolled within science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs, as measured by cumulative grade point average (GPA) after three years of initial enrollment. Design/methodology/approach: To increase the…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, STEM Education, Student Characteristics, Predictor Variables
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Lambert, Olga D. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
This study investigates the relationships between individual learner characteristics and gain in writing performance as measured by a standardized writing assessment in a sample of community college academic English as a Second Language (ESL) students in the United States. The ethnically and linguistically diverse convenience sample included 76…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Timmermans, Anneke C.; de Boer, Hester; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
Little is known about factors other than students' abilities and background variables that shape teachers' achievement expectations. This study was aimed at investigating the role of teachers' perceptions of students attributes (working habits, popularity, self-confidence, student--teacher relationships, and classroom behavior) in shaping…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Expectations of Students, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
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