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Findlater, Nickcoy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The gap in supply (i.e., shortage) and demand of the STEM workforce have prompted extensive research on identifying factors that predict STEM outcomes and retention of students. Few studies, however, have examined the relationships between STEM outcomes and predictors in an integrated model, taking into account measurement errors in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power
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Zhang, Qiannan; Lin, Sheng; Liu, Jinlan; Zhang, Jingyi – College Teaching, 2022
The development of undergraduate students' soft skills is crucial because their chances to satisfactorily deal with the demands of various environments and interlocutors increases with the development of their soft skills. Based on the achievement goal theory, this study aimed to examine the role of the school environment in fostering students'…
Descriptors: College Environment, Soft Skills, Goal Orientation, Undergraduate Students
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Campbell, Corbin M.; Cabrera, Alberto F. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
Assessing gains in learning has received increased attention as one dimension of institutional accountability both in the USA (Arum and Roksa, Academically adrift: Limited learning on college campuses, 2011) and abroad (OECD, http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_39263238_40624662_1_1_1_1,00.html, 2013,…
Descriptors: College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average, Correlation
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Chan, Kevin; Cheung, George; Wan, Kelvin; Brown, Ian; Luk, Green – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
In understanding how active and blended learning approaches with learning technologies engagement in undergraduate education, current research models tend to undermine the effect of learners' variations, particularly regarding their styles and approaches to learning, on intention and use of learning technologies. This study contributes to further…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Technology Integration, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Hsieh, Tzu-Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among learning motivation, engagement behaviors, and performance of undergraduate students. 178 junior students are surveyed from five colleges at a four-year research university in Taiwan. The scales of motivation, engagement, and perceived learning outcomes are adapted from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Flaherty, Anne Guerin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates the relationship between student engagement (as measured by the National Survey of Student Engagement benchmarks) and pharmacy student professionalism (as measured by the Pharmacy Professionalism Domain instrument) in first and third year pharmacy students at seven different schools of pharmacy. Engagement provides the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Structural Equation Models, Pharmacy, Educational Experience
Knight, William E. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2009
As more students enroll at community colleges, questions are raised about whether learning is the same in the two- and four-year sectors, both overall and for sub-groups, and whether effects of student backgrounds and college experiences on learning are similar. This study used structural equation modeling with CCSSE and NSSE data from a sample…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College Transfer Students
Frederick, Beth, Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
The NEAIR 2010 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Saratoga Springs, New York conference. Papers in this document include: (1) Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Research: A Model for the Successful Assessment of Students' College Experience (Michael N. Christakis and Joel D. Bloom); (2) Direct…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Student Personnel Services, Cooperation, College Students