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Direct linkLaTisha Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The study explored the relationship between how many student success programs and which programs first-year students of color at the University of Kansas (KU) participated in and how this was related to outcomes of retention to sophomore-year and first-year GPA. The study used data from the University of Kansas of students of color who…
Descriptors: Success, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average
Peer reviewedMelissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Ashley A. Richter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Differences in student achievement between in-person and virtual instruction were a common focus of research in the discipline of higher education even before the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated all teaching to become virtual in Spring 2020. As in-person instructors at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), a Midwestern military…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Levant, Beth; Zückert, Wolfram; Paolo, Anthony – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
This study compared the effects of two types of delayed feedback (correct response or correct response + rationale) provided to students by a computer-based testing system following an exam. The preclinical medical curriculum at the University of Kansas Medical Center uses a two-exam system for summative assessments in which students test, revisit…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Computer Assisted Testing, Feedback (Response), Scores
Simpson, Anthony B. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This mixed-methods study examined if coaching leadership behaviors created a culture of positive academic performance. The researchers examined coaching leadership behaviors perceived by student-athletes of their coaches and the coaches' self-perceptions. Chelladurai and Saleh's (1980) multidimensional model of leadership and Astin's (1991)…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Team Sports, Scores, Student Athletes
Madison, Ed; Hopp, Toby; Santana, Arthur D.; Stansberry, Kathleen – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2018
This study used self-determination theory (SDT) to investigate the motivations for selecting a major among mass communication and media majors at 18 colleges and universities across the United States. Specifically, 669 mass communication majors were queried on their intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for choosing a major, their degree of major…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Theories, Majors (Students), Decision Making
Pianta, Robert C.; Ansari, Arya – Educational Researcher, 2018
By tracking longitudinally a sample of American children (n = 1,097), this study examined the extent to which enrollment in private schools between kindergarten and ninth grade was related to students' academic, social, psychological, and attainment outcomes at age 15. Results from this investigation revealed that in unadjusted models, children…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Academic Achievement, Social Development, Psychological Patterns
Eickhoff, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There is currently a nursing shortage in the United States. By 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) expects, the number of job openings for Practical Nurses (PN) will be 168,500, an increase of 25% over 2012 (BLS, 2014). Nursing education does not currently meet present, much less future needs. Nursing programs have limited space; according…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Predictor Variables, Success, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Download full textZumeta, William; Huntington-Klein, Nick – Council of Independent Colleges, 2015
This study examines key aspects of the cost-effectiveness of private nondoctoral (PND) colleges as providers of baccalaureate degrees and explores how states might feasibly make better use of these colleges to produce more degrees efficiently. The study looks at degree production and cost in the PND sector relative to other higher education…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Undergraduate Study, Private Colleges, Public Policy
Brown, Susannah K.; Burdsal, Charles A. – Journal of General Education, 2012
This research sought to investigate student success using psychological sense of community as a guiding theory with the intention of providing information that could be applied in a university setting. Policy makers, researchers, and practitioners involved with higher education need programs for student success that are both efficient and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Community Surveys, Attachment Behavior
Kirk, Chris M.; Lewis, Rhonda K.; Nilsen, Corinne; Colvin, Deltha Q. – Youth & Society, 2013
Despite an overall increase in college attendance, low-income youth and particularly those in the foster care system are less likely to attend college (Wolanin, 2005). Although youth in foster care report high educational aspirations, as little as 4% obtain a 4-year college degree (Nixon & Jones, 2007). The purpose of this study is to explore…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Youth Opportunities, Academic Aspiration, Expectation
Gruman, Daniel H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A substantial amount of research examines the benefits of high school college-credit attainment programs against non-participation. The growth in popularity of these programs, particularly Advanced Placement (AP) and dual enrollment (DE), has them competing against one another for student attention. However, students, schools, and policymakers do…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Dual Enrollment, College Choice
Butler, Cassandra – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study utilized a quantitative design using archival data from Johnson County Community College (JCCC), located in Johnson County, Kansas, and the Office of Financial Aid for students who graduated, withdrew or dropped out of the college in academic years 2006, 2007 and 2008. Because this study used archival data, we can only show…
Descriptors: Loan Default, Statistical Analysis, Records (Forms), Community Colleges
Kirk, Chris Michael; Lewis-Moss, Rhonda K.; Nilsen, Corinne; Colvin, Deltha Q. – Educational Studies, 2011
Parental expectations have long been studied as a factor in increasing adolescent educational aspirations, often linking these expectations to parental level of education and involvement in academic endeavours. This study further explores this relationship in a statewide Midwestern sample of parents and their adolescent children. Regression…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Parent Role, Academic Aspiration, Expectation
Rourke, James; Hartzman, Marlene – Principal Leadership, 2009
Everyone knows that school is supposed to help students become responsible adults, but how can high schools encourage students to accept responsibility for the learning and behaviors that they will need to do so? One answer is School Counts, the work ethic certification program at Arkansas City (KS) High School. Through a partnership with Cowley…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade Point Average, Community Colleges, Career Centers
