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Yu, Li – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
The unemployment problem of college students in China has drawn much attention from academics and society. Using the 2011 College Student Labor Market (CSLM) survey data from Tsinghua University, this paper estimated the effects of college quality on initial employment, including employment status and employment unit ownership for fresh college…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Labor Market
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
Cheema, Jehanzeb R.; Sheridan, Kimberly – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
This study investigated the effect of time spent on homework and mathematics anxiety on mathematics achievement. Data from a nationally representative US sample consisting of 4,978 cases was used to predict mathematics achievement from time spent on homework and mathematics anxiety while controlling for demographic differences such as gender,…
Descriptors: Homework, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Predictor Variables
Karagün, Elif – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine the violence tendencies of young people studying in high school in terms of their participation in sports, status of exposure to violence and socio-demographic variables. It was also aimed to evaluate whether the identified violence tendency differed significantly by gender, grade, school success,…
Descriptors: Violence, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Athletics
Stoessel, Katharina; Ihme, Toni A.; Barbarino, Maria-Luisa; Fisseler, Björn; Stürmer, Stefan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
Wood, J. Luke; Ireland, S. Mei-Yen – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine determinants of Black male students' engagement with faculty in the community college. Data from this study were derived from the 2011 three-year cohort of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE). Using data from 11,384 Black male respondents within 260 community colleges, this study…
Descriptors: African American Students, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Teacher Student Relationship
Lint, Anna H. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2013
This quantitative study evaluated and investigated the theoretical underpinnings of the Kember's (1995) student progress model that examines the direct or indirect effects of student persistence in online education by identifying the relationships between variables. The primary method of data collection in this study was a survey by exploring the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Online Courses, College Students, Higher Education
Fusilier, Kristy D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study utilized the administration of the CORE Drug and Alcohol Survey long form, with the inclusion of 10 additional questions to assess prior history of behaviors, social organization membership status, and reasons for utilization of alcohol, to a representative sample of 2500 college students within a single university in order to determine…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Surveys, Statistical Analysis
Adeyemi, Abisola Moradeyo; Adeyemi, Semiu Babatunde – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Educational stakeholders have continued to express concerns over the poor academic performance of Nigerian students at virtually all levels of academic engagements. This paper investigated personal factors as predictors of students' academic performance in the South-Western Nigeria. The study employed the ex post facto design using a survey design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sampling, Psychometrics, Low Achievement
Mainu, Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative study explored the perceptions of private university education compared to public university education by hiring professionals in Ghana using four dimensions: quality of degree and diploma programs, credibility of degree and diploma programs, characteristics of graduating student applicants, and skills of graduating student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Higher Education, Statistical Analysis
Shoemaker, Scott Norman – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study presents the results of a study of first-generation college student predictors of persistence at Christ-centered baccalaureate colleges. Data were obtained from 5 institutions that administered the CIRP Freshman Survey from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA and were matched with persistence data. Multiple regression…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Church Related Colleges
Young, Darby J. W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was (a) to explore descriptions of students who attended selected religious four-year colleges; (b) to explore relationships between background characteristics and overall college satisfaction and relationships between college experiences and overall college satisfaction; (c) to explore changes over time with respect to…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Church Related Colleges, Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis
Ogundokun, Olubunmi K. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study analyzes the relationship between school management strategies and student's academic achievement, while controlling for factors such as the school principals' age, gender, experience, as well as school size and location, Student's Social Economics Status (SES), English as a Second Language learner's population (ESL), Special Education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Governance, School Size
Gallagher, Kevin P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study's focus was to examine the impact of learning style on learning outcomes in an Interactive Multimedia Instruction program (IMI). The literature review emphasizes that incorporating technology alone does not ensure positive gains in an educational initiative. It also identified a number of factors that may influence how students will…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Cognitive Style, Familiarity, Hypermedia
Sarsani, Mahender Reddy – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2007
The present study was aimed to explore the relationships between orgainsational or school variables, students' personal background variables, and cognitive and motivational variables. The sample for the survey included 373 students drawn from nine Government schools in Andhra Pradesh, India. Students' creative thinking abilities were measured by…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
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