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Gray, Melanie Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Teacher interaction has been regarded as a significant aspect of learning experiences online. This study expands upon present literature by attempting to predict student satisfaction as an outcome of specific types and frequency of teacher-student interactions from an experimental versus exploratory vantage point. The importance of student…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Online Courses, Teacher Student Relationship, Quasiexperimental Design
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Denson, Nida; Chang, Mitchell J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study examined factors that can moderate the relationship between cross-racial interaction and undergraduate students' development. While previous studies have shown that students benefit from interacting across racial differences, they have not examined whether those educational benefits are moderated by other factors. The moderators…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Diversity, Racial Relations, Undergraduate Students
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Kuo, Yu-Chun; Walker, Andrew E.; Belland, Brian R.; Schroder, Kerstin E. E.; Kuo, Yu-Tung – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
This paper reports research on the implementation of a web-based videoconferencing tool (Interwise) for synchronous learning sessions on an industrial technology course offered through a university in northern Taiwan. The participants included undergraduate students from the same course offered in two different semesters. We investigated students'…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Synchronous Communication, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Tamam, Ezhar; Idris, Fazilah; Tien, Wendy Yee Mei; Ahmad, Mona Alkauthar – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013
In this study, the authors examine the influence of interracial interaction expectation and campus racial climate perception on attitudes toward interracial interaction which, in turn, influences the levels of interracial interaction among students at a multicultural university in Malaysia. Interaction across race is fundamental to students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Racial Relations, Racial Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Eichler, Jack F.; Peeples, Junelyn – Journal of Chemical Education, 2013
Two different online homework systems were administered to students in a first-quarter general chemistry course. This study used a multiple regression model to control for the students' academic and socioeconomic background, and it was found that students who completed the online homework activities performed significantly better on a common…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Homework, Chemistry, College Science
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Blackmon, Marilyn Hughes – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
This paper draws from cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to develop a preliminary similarity-choice theory of how people allocate attention among information patches on webpages while completing search tasks in complex informational websites. Study 1 applied stepwise multiple regression to a large dataset and showed that success rate…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cognitive Psychology, Internet, Information Technology
Ko, Moon Suk – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to add to the literature on college student satisfaction. More specifically, expanding research of empirical studies set in multi-campus systems. This was accomplished by examining the influences of academic engagement factors and comparing demographic group differences related to college student satisfaction. Factor…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Interaction, Factor Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Fowler, Samantha R. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the evolution science content used during college students' negotiation of biology-based socioscientific issues (SSI) and examine how it related to students' conceptual understanding and acceptance of biological evolution. Specific research questions were, (1a) what specific evolutionary science content do…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), College Students, Interaction, Biology
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Liang, Christopher T. H.; Alimo, Craig – Journal of College Student Development, 2005
Based on the Contact Hypothesis (Allport, 1979) a model for understanding the development of attitudes toward LGB relationships among White heterosexual undergraduate students was proposed. Using 401 White heterosexual students (70% women) attending a large public mid-Atlantic university this model was tested. More specifically, the effects of…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, White Students, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity