This book offers an in-depth look at the experiences of international students as they pursued undergraduate degrees in the US. Drawing on recurring interviews with the students and other qualitative data collected over four years, the book investigates how the students' academic development intersected with other life factors, including their…

Grit denotes an individual's passion and perseverance to accomplish a long-term goal despite obstacles and challenges. It has been consistently supported by its beneficial effect in promoting students' educational, developmental, and psychological outcomes. Yet less is known about how to shape and foster grit from parents' perspectives and the…

The notion of student success in an academic context has garnered much interest over the years, resulting in a multitude of perspectives by which success is defined, understood, and measured. Historically, the institutional measure of success has been most prevalent, namely that success is directly linked to grades. More recently, however,…

The study investigates how lenient-understanding parenting affects the academic grit of secondary school students from the perspective of positive psychology, based on a questionnaire survey of 2,101 secondary school students. Its research findings reveal a significantly positive correlation between lenient-understanding parenting and student…

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between student engagement in a higher education system and the desire to attend university and academic success. A causal design was used in the research. The research sample consisted of 3,093 undergraduate students in Turkey, selected using the stratified sampling method. NSSE was…

In the United States, licenses are required for entry into many different occupations. Requirements vary by state and occupation, but many licenses require a minimum number of training or instructional hours. We consider the impact of these hours requirements on students and postsecondary institutions, with a particular focus on cosmetology (also…

Most students who begin at a community college do not complete their desired credential. Many students fail to graduate due to various barriers other than their academic performance. To encourage previously successful non-completers to re-enroll and eventually graduate, a growing number of community colleges have implemented re-enrollment…

The global teacher shortage is reaching critical levels, with many educators leaving the field early and schools struggling to fill vacancies. Key aspects of teacher attrition include inadequate compensation, poor working conditions, and barriers facing potential educators, along with impacts on student achievement and school operations.…

This study focuses on the retention rates of new teacher hires and focuses on an underexplored group--educators who exit the teaching profession and subsequently re-enter. Using longitudinal administrative data from Texas (2000-2023), this research compares characteristics of returning teachers and their likelihood of retention compared to new,…

Objective: Most undocumented students enter higher education through community colleges, yet these institutions typically offer less support than four-year universities. Using Shumaker and Brownell's theory of social support, we aimed to understand how resources at community colleges influenced undocumented students' persistence. Specifically, we…

Teachers perceive the characteristics of their teaching jobs differently. However, little is known about beginning teachers' perceptions of their teaching job characteristics and how their professional identity differs with these perceptions. Grounded in the job demands-resources model, we clustered three typical types of job characteristics…

This study aims to examine the longitudinal associations between lifestyle habits of students at the beginning of their postsecondary education and their perseverance and academic achievement one year later. The convenience sample consists of 2124 students enrolled in the fall semester of 2023 at eight educational institutions (58% women, 42%…

Productive struggle (PS) has emerged as a critical construct in mathematics education, emphasizing the importance of persistence, cognitive engagement, and conceptual understanding in problem-solving. However, inconsistencies in its conceptual and operational definitions have hindered its effective implementation and assessment. This study…

This study utilized time series analysis to investigate the development of and the longitudinal relationship between grit and peer learning among high school students in an EFL classroom over a 36-week period. Based on autocorrelation, partial correlation, and developmental trajectories, we found the dynamic development of the two constructs,…

To build connections among students studying education, the researchers implemented a First-Year Experiences (FYE) peer mentorship program with embedded professional development workshops called Teachable Moments for first-year students. This innovative approach to meeting the needs of first-year students was measured through a mixed-methods…