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Padhan, Akash; Suna, Gopikanta; Meher, Venkateswar – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2023
This study investigates scientific temper among undergraduate students with respect to demographic variables such as gender, stream, caste, family types, and locality. The study included 108 undergraduate students selected by stratified purposive sampling. Primary data were collected using the standardized "Scientific Temper Inventory."…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Tanzina Ahmed; Jacob Shane; Caitlin Chu; Arielle Edwards; Joseph Verdino; David Caicedo; Rositsa T. Ilieva; Karen Jiang; Daniel Brusche; Ho Yan Wong; Anita Yan; Liam Shay; Charmaine Aleong – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We examined how students' food insecurity related to their demographic information, academic experiences, use of food programs, and reflections on food during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: 246 NYC undergraduates during the first 9 months of the pandemic. Methods: Students reported on food insecurity (e.g., USDA's 10-item AFSSM),…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Hunger, COVID-19, Pandemics
Plamper, Raakel; Siivonen, Päivi; Haltia, Nina – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
In market-oriented higher education (HE) systems, fee-paying students are positioned as customers, and studying is juxtaposed with service use. In this study, we investigate how students position themselves in relation to the student-as-customer discourse in Finnish HE, in which only students coming from outside the EU and EEA areas are charged…
Descriptors: Fees, Comparative Analysis, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
Aliaga-Linares, Lissette; Romero, Troy – Teaching Sociology, 2023
International travel has long been considered a key pedagogical strategy for global learning. Yet very little is known about whether study-abroad experiences increase students' awareness of the impact of tourism as a global phenomenon. In this study, we assessed students' learning through a content analysis of their journals and final essays from…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Tourism, Foreign Countries, Social Responsibility
Dorottya Demszky; C. Lee Williams; Shannon T. Brady; Shashanka Subrahmanya; Eric Gaudiello; Gregory M. Walton; Johannes C. Eichstaedt – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Inequality in college has both structural and psychological causes; these include the presence of self-defeating beliefs about the potential for growth and belonging. Such beliefs can be addressed through large-scale interventions in the college transition (Walton & Cohen, 2011; Walton et al., 2023) but are hard to measure. In our…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Intervention, Student School Relationship
Topic, Martina; Diers-Lawson, Audra Diers-Lawson; Goodman, Christian – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2022
The purpose of the article is to compare and contrast higher education and research among public relations and journalism students of middle-class and working-class origin. The paper applied Bourdieu's theory of "habitus" to analyze prejudices against the working class, explores whether working-class students express an anti-education…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Working Class, Student Characteristics, Socialization
K. Supriya; Christofer Bang; Jessica Ebie; Christopher Pagliarulo; Derek Tucker; Kaela Villegas; Christian Wright; Sara Brownell – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Use of high-stakes exams in a course has been associated with gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequities. We investigated whether offering students the opportunity to retake an exam makes high-stakes exams more equitable. Following the control value theory of achievement emotions, we hypothesized that exam retakes would increase students'…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, High Stakes Tests, Academic Achievement, Self Concept
Wade-Jaimes, Katherine – Science Education, 2023
The creation of specialty science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) Schools has been presented as a way to improve both academic and STEM-related outcomes, particularly in urban school districts where "failing" schools are converted the STEM Schools. This study examines this conversion process through the tenets of critical race…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, STEM Education, Educational Change
Liu, Ruo-Fan – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
Students attain cultural knowledge to navigate college admissions, yet few studies investigate when and how students activate this knowledge in a relatively transparent system. Drawing upon 26 Taiwanese student interviews, this study unveils how students strategically use available information to illuminate each step of the admission process. I…
Descriptors: College Admission, Cultural Awareness, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Farmer-Hinton, Raquel L.; Kellogg, B. Tait – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background: Promise programs have grown exponentially. Yet, we are still learning how systemic barriers affect promise program students' abilities to meet promise program requirements and their postsecondary goals. Objective: The Degree Project (TDP) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the nation's first randomized control trial of a promise scholarship.…
Descriptors: Incentives, Social Capital, Social Differences, Comparative Analysis
Buckingham, Lyndsay R.; Fernández Álvarez, Miguel; Halbach, Ana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article aims to contribute to the explanation of why bilingual education (CLIL) may reduce the differences in motivation and English proficiency commonly seen between students from different SES backgrounds (Shepherd and Ainsworth 2017). From a mixed-methods approach involving a questionnaire and focus group interviews, fourth year Secondary…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wolz, Sabine; Bergande, Bianca; Brune, Philipp – Cogent Education, 2022
Programming is an essential part of the curriculum of computer science non-major students. The motivation for the various elements of interdisciplinary degrees is often very low in computer science, which faces a gender gap as well. Differences between study courses and gender in confidence, attitude, student numbers, and motivation in computer…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Gender Differences, Computer Science Education, Nonmajors
Zhonglu, Li – Chinese Education & Society, 2022
As the number of graduates from institutions of higher education has soared year after year, alongside growth in the demand for high-end talent posed by economic development, a growing number of graduates from undergraduate programs are choosing to continue on to receive graduate education, so as to improve their competitive advantage in the labor…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
Text4College: Impacts of a Text Message Intervention on Community College Enrollment and Persistence
Christina LiCalsi; Elisabeth Davis; Jill Bowdon; Alberto Guzman-Alvarez – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: The transition from high school to college marks a critical juncture for students planning to pursue higher education, particularly those from historically marginalized backgrounds. Unfortunately, many of these students are left to navigate complex financial aid requirements, registration processes, and academic placement with…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Synchronous Communication, College Attendance, Comparative Analysis
Rich, Rebecca; Paschal, Angelia – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: Healthy equity (HE) implies the highest possible standard of health for all people while giving special attention to the needs of those at greatest risk of poor health, based on social conditions. The social determinants of health (SDH) are conditions within the environment in which people live that shape their opportunity to attain…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Health, Social Differences, Health Promotion