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The Bird's Eye View of Community Colleges: A Behavioral Typology of First-Time Students Based on Cluster Analytic Classification
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Bahr, Peter Riley – Research in Higher Education, 2010
The development of a typology of community college students is a topic of long-standing and growing interest among educational researchers, policy-makers, administrators, and other stakeholders, but prior work on this topic has been limited in a number of important ways. In this paper, I develop a behavioral typology based on students'…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Research, Enrollment Trends, Classification
Academic Misconduct among Teacher Education Students: A Descriptive-Correlational Study.
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Daniel, Larry G.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A survey of 97 teacher education students investigated perceptions of peers' cheating behaviors, perceived maturity level of the persons most likely to cheat, and degree to which respondents felt cheaters "neutralized" their cheating behaviors. Results indicate that, although cheating is not seen as a major problem, perceived neutralization and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cheating, Higher Education, Peer Evaluation
The Relationship between Academic Dishonesty and College Classroom Environment.
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Pulvers, Kim; Diekhoff, George M. – Research in Higher Education, 1999
A study of 280 undergraduates in two liberal arts colleges examined the relationship between college classroom environment, academic cheating, and the neutralization (justification) of cheating. Results suggest classroom environment is a significant situational variable in academic dishonesty, with both attitudes and behavior being related to…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cheating, Classroom Environment, College Environment
An Approach/Avoidance Behavioral Model of College Student Attrition.
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Eaton, Shevawn Bogdan; Bean, John P. – Research in Higher Education, 1995
A model of attrition based on theory of approach/avoidance behavior was developed and tested with 262 university students, mostly in their first and second years. The study demonstrated that certain approach/avoidance behaviors affected certain types of academic and social integration more than others, and that integration may be more complex than…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Dropout Characteristics
The Antecedents and Consequences of Academic Excuse-Making: Examining Individual Differences in Procrastination.
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Ferrari, Joseph R.; Keane, Sabrina M.; Wolfe, Raymond N.; Beck, Brett L. – Research in Higher Education, 1998
Study of students (n=546) from two colleges found selective college students procrastinated more. Academic procrastination was motivated by task aversion at selective college, by fear of task failure at nonselective college. Nonselective college procrastinators more often used both legitimate and nonlegitimate excuses. Excuses were self-generated…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Behavior Patterns, College Admission, College Students
Circumstances Surrounding Cheating: A Questionnaire Study of College Students.
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Genereux, Randy L.; McLeod, Beverly A. – Research in Higher Education, 1995
A survey of 365 college students identified circumstances likely to increase both planned and spontaneous cheating behavior, those likely to discourage both kinds of cheating, factors underlying planned cheating, most common types of cheating, and student demographic characteristics associated with greater cheating behavior. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Standards, Cheating
College Cheating: Ten Years Later.
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Diekhoff, George M.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A follow-up study of college students' (n=474) cheating behaviors looked at extent of cheating, attitudes toward it, characteristics of cheaters/noncheaters, effectiveness of deterrents, and attitude changes from 1984-94. A significant rise in cheating was found, but with less rationalization. An additional 12 variables discriminating cheaters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Cheating
Individual and Contextual Influences on Academic Dishonesty: A Multicampus Investigation.
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McCabe, Donald L.; Trevino, Linda Klebe – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A survey of 1,793 students at nine state universities found cheating was influenced by a number of characteristics of individuals, including age, sex, and grade point average, and contextual factors, including level of cheating among peers, peer disapproval of cheating, fraternity/sorority membership, and perceived severity of penalties for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cheating
Classroom Incivilities.
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Boice, Bob – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A five-year study of college classroom incivilities (CI) in large survey courses at a large research university found the most problematic to be teachers displaying aloof, distancing mannerisms; teachers discouraging student involvement with fast-paced lectures; student noisiness and indifference; students coming late, leaving early; and students'…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Body Language