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Mohamedou Nasser Dine – Africa Education Review, 2022
This study investigated the sociodemographic determinants of school attendance in Mauritania. Data were drawn from the National Household Survey 2019 and a logistic regression econometric model was used to analyse the association between sociodemographic variables and the dependent variable outcome: school attendance. The findings revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attendance, Correlation, Student Characteristics
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Atilgan, Davut; Tukel, Yalçin – International Education Studies, 2021
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the entrepreneurship tendencies and self-efficacy of sports college students and whether there is a difference in terms of some demographic variables. The research is a quantitative study based on a relational survey model. The sample of the study consists of 495 participants who…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
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Looi, Kim Hoe – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
To mitigate adverse consequences of campus closure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many higher education institutions shifted from traditional to one hundred percent e-learning overnight. This study aims to identify salient determinants of business undergraduates' future preferences for e-learning and discuss its implications. 251 business…
Descriptors: Preferences, Electronic Learning, School Closing, COVID-19
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Samta P. Pandya – High Ability Studies, 2024
This article reports a study on the impact of online spiritual lessons in improving self-regulation, emotion regulation, affect balance, peer relations, and well-being of high-ability college students of liberal arts disciplines. Compared to an online workshop on affect management, the online spiritual lessons were effective. Moderate effects were…
Descriptors: College Students, High Achievement, Academic Ability, Liberal Arts
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Rafiq, Muhammad Yasir; Azad, Mueen Ud-Din; Rafique, Aamer; Chang, Lu Shi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2020
Due to the of use of ICTs and ODL, Virtual University (VU) has become one of leading distance learning university in Pakistan. However, the retention rate among online learners found considerably low. The primary objective of this research was to dig out determinants of retention of MS/MPhil students at VU and modeling their retention by…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Graduate Students
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Bitew, Tesera; Birhan, Wohabie – Educational Research and Reviews, 2021
The purpose of this study was to document potential effect of depression on academic outcomes. We collected a cross sectional data from 710 pre-engineering university students in northwestern part of Ethiopia using cluster sampling. Depressive symptoms were assessed using a locally validated version of Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) at a cut…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Depression (Psychology), Grade Point Average, Anxiety
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Aparicio-Chueca, Pilar; Domínguez-Amorós, Màrius; Maestro-Yarza, Irene – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Degree transfer is understood as the increasingly common phenomenon among students of changing university degrees or university, especially after the first or second years of the degree. The profile of students who transfer (3,861students, 8.3% of students) is constructed based on microdata from the University Pre-enrolment Register of Catalonia…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Student Characteristics, Dropout Characteristics, Student Motivation
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Sun, Jinlu; Cao, Liqun – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Most studies of school bullying in China are atheoretical. To fill the gap in the literature, we introduce criminological theories in an attempt to test propositions broadly derived from these perspectives in the study of physical bullying. Relying on data collected from 12 middle schools (Grades 7 to 9) in three cities with information on both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Middle School Students, Aggression
Alice Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study and question was to find out if age, gender, or student residency predicted the success in college credit-bearing courses when using the corequisite model. Student residency was defined, for the current study, as where the student lives, such as does the student reside on-campus or off-campus. The research questions for…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, Required Courses
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Whatley, Melissa – Community College Review, 2021
Objective: The purpose of this study is twofold. First, this study explores individual student characteristics, specifically those related to demographics, financial need, academic characteristics, and social and cultural capitals, related to study abroad participation among community college students. Second, this study identifies when over the…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Study Abroad, Student Characteristics
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Yockey, R. Andrew; King, Keith A.; Vidourek, Rebecca A. – Journal of Drug Education, 2020
Alcohol use among college students is a national health concern. The epidemiology of alcohol use among Middle Eastern college students remains to be investigated. This study sought to understand the epidemiology of recent alcohol use among Middle Eastern college students. We use data from the 2017 to 2018 Healthy Minds Study to identify predictors…
Descriptors: College Students, Epidemiology, Drinking, Predictor Variables
Whitlock, Joshua Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to discover factors about first-time freshmen that began at one of the six 4-year universities in the former Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) system, transferred to any other institution after their first year, and graduated with a degree or certificate. These factors would be used with predictive models to identify…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Transfer Students, College Graduates, Student Characteristics
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Candipan, Jennifer – Sociology of Education, 2020
School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment system, decoupling residential and school enrollment decisions for some families. Recent work suggests that the neighborhood-school link is weakening the most in neighborhoods…
Descriptors: School Choice, Neighborhoods, Social Class, Disadvantaged
Fetter, Sherri – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School choice is a current education reform effort that advances the idea that parents should be able to choose the best-fit school for their child rather than have a state or local school district assign a school based on residential address. The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of academic and nonacademic characteristics of…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Elementary School Students, Predictor Variables, Enrollment Influences
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Slim, Ahmad; Hush, Don; Ojah, Tushar; Babbitt, Terry – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Colleges are increasingly interested in identifying the factors that maximize their enrollment. These factors allow enrollment management administrators to identify the applicants who have higher tendency to enroll at their institutions and accordingly to better allocate their money rewards (i.e., scholarship and financial aid). In this paper we…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, College Students, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
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