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Download full textJiao, Qun G.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – 1999
This study investigated the relationship between academic procrastination and library anxiety at the graduate level. Participants were 135 graduate students enrolled in 3 sections of a required introductory-level educational research course at a Southeastern university. Participants were administered the Library Anxiety Scale (LAS) and the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Libraries, Correlation, Graduate Students
Jiao, Qun G.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – 1999
This study of 125 non-native English-speaking students at a Northeastern university investigated the prevalence of the dimensions of library anxiety among this population. Participants were administered the Library Anxiety Scale (LAS). This instrument has five subscales: barriers with staff; affective barriers; comfort with the library; knowledge…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Libraries, Correlation, Foreign Students
Nauta, Margaret M.; Kahn, Jeffrey H. – 2000
In this study 445 incoming freshman completed a questionnaire prior to arrival on campus about their outcome expectations with respect to successful college achievement and academic performance goals. During their second semester, 274 of these students responded to a questionnaire where Social-Cognitive Career Theory Constructs were again tested.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average
Wild, Nancy – 1998
The report summarizes the findings of a student opinion survey on a variety of subjects at Rogue Community College (RCC) (Oregon). Results of the survey provide broad insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the college's programs, services, and image. Results are analyzed by RCC as a whole and Redwood Campus (Grant Pass) versus Riverside…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness, Self Evaluation (Groups), Student Attitudes
Wild, Nancy – 2000
The Annual Student Satisfaction Survey at Oregon's Rogue Community College (RCC) allows the school to measure achievement in services, classes, and facilities. Three hundred and eleven students responded to this winter 2000 survey. Findings include: (1) seventeen percent of all respondents at the Redwood and Riverside campuses were very satisfied…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Participant Satisfaction
2002
This document describes an opinion survey of students who had taken one or more online courses from a Michigan community college in the previous year. A random sample of 399 students received a questionnaire; telephone interviews were also conducted. Findings include: (1) 79% of students said their educational goal in taking the online course was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Distance Education, Nontraditional Education, Online Courses
Moore, Kathleen; Bartkovich, Jeffrey; Fetzner, Marie; Ison, Sherrill – 2002
This study addressed the relative dearth of data on student retention in distance education through archival and survey data on student retention in online courses at a large, comprehensive community college in the Northeast. The college's online program had been active for 5 years, and at the time of the study, encompassed nearly 4,000 student…
Descriptors: Attendance, College Students, Distance Education, Higher Education
McHewitt, Earl R.; Taylor, Garry – 2003
This document analyzes a study done by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC), which examined transfer rates in the VCCS. The document provides definitions for transfer rate, academic performance, and completion rate as they are used in the study. The study answers the following questions: (1) which pool of students were used in the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Statistics, School Surveys, Schools
Howard Community Coll., Columbia, MD. Office of Planning and Evaluation. – 2002
This document is the annual student satisfaction survey completed by Howard Community College students in 2002. The respondents came from all different class sections. The survey was sent out to 106 students and 99 replied, which is a 93% response rate. The majority of respondents had chosen HCC due to its close proximity to home (33%) and their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Improvement, Need Gratification, Needs
Tomsic, Margie L.; Hendel, Darwin D.; Matross, Ronald P. – 2000
This study compared college students who used the World Wide Web versus paper and pencil to respond to one of three surveys: the 1997 and 1999 Student Experiences Survey and 1998 University of Minnesota Graduate Survey. Students chose to respond by mail or via the Web. Researchers examined the proportion of students who used the Web versus those…
Descriptors: Alumni, College Students, Higher Education, Sex Differences
Cartnal, Ryan; Hagen, Peter F. – 1999
This report evaluates the Early Alert program at Cuesta College (California). The report is divided into four main sections: services accessed, accessibility, actions taken as a result of receiving an Early Alert letter, and timing and utility of the Early Alert program. These are followed by the demography of the respondents, a brief background…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Outcomes of Education, Remedial Programs
Frank, Jean – 1998
This report aims to increase awareness regarding the characteristics, goals, and academic accomplishments of the students who graduated from Howard Community College (HCC) and transferred to four-year campuses. The data compiled in this report on transfer students were collected as part of follow-up surveys sent to all HCC graduates approximately…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Truckee Meadows Community Coll., Sparks, NV. – 1998
Every three years, Truckee Meadows Community College (Nevada) administers a student climate survey that measures the attitudes, perceptions, and opinions of its student population. The instrument used to survey the student body was designed with three basic objectives in mind: (1) validate the institutional mission; (2) obtain input regarding the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Community Colleges, Educational Environment, Educational Quality
Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra – 2000
This paper evaluates the success of a new specialization in library science, Social Information Science, developed by the author at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). The aim of Social Information is to expand the role of the library, to build new Social Information Banks, and to create a new profession, Social Information Scientist. The paper…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Education
Cook, Colleen; Heath, Fred; Thompson, Bruce – 2000
Texas A&M University and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) under the New Measures initiative are engaged in a project to evaluate service quality in research libraries using an augmented SERVQUAL instrument. In spring 2000, 13 ARL libraries in North America invited a random sample of students and faculty to take the survey through…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Services, Research Libraries
