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Elizabeth S. Park; Mike Wilton; Stanley M. Lo; Natascha Buswell; Nicole A. Suarez; Brian K. Sato – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Studies indicate that racial disparities in STEM achievement or equity grade gaps are associated with faculty fixed mindset beliefs; however, whether specific instructional beliefs are linked to student academic achievement remains unclear. We surveyed 216 STEM faculty to assess their mindset and instructional beliefs and linked these to detailed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Achievement Gap
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Nation, Jack R.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1977
Student performance in a Programmed Achievement (PA) condition, requiring weekly quiz mastery, and in a Standard Control (S-C) condition, with no mastery requirement, was compared. PA students showed higher performance on weekly quizzes and a major exam. PA females increased more rapidly than PA males, but S-C males and females were similar.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Higher Education, Males
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Kuh, George D.; Pace, C. Robert; Vesper, Nick – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A study investigated indicators of student academic performance in six samples (n=911 each) of men and women students from 19 baccalaureate, 27 master's, and 29 doctoral granting institutions. Measures of achievement gains associated with three good educational practices (faculty-student contact, cooperation among students, active learning) were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Active Learning, Classroom Techniques