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Cvetkovski, Stefan; Jorm, Anthony F.; Mackinnon, Andrew J. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Studies of psychological distress (PD) in university students have shown that they have high prevalence rates. These findings have raised concerns that PD may be leading to poorer student outcomes, such as elevated dropout rates. The aim of this study was to examine the association of PD in undergraduate university students with the competing…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, National Surveys
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Payandeh Najafabadi, Amir T.; Najafabadi, Maryam Omidi; Farid-Rohani, Mohammad Reza – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2013
In Iran, high school graduates enter university after taking a very difficult entrance exam called the Konkoor. Therefore, only the top-performing students are admitted by universities to continue their bachelor's education in statistics. Surprisingly, statistically, most of such students fall into the following categories: (1) do not succeed in…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Bayesian Statistics, Performance Factors