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Kexin Ren – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students tend to choose a field of study in which they believe they possess the most skills by comparing their performance across different domains, such as math and English. These intraindividual comparisons between domains are known as dimensional comparisons (Moller & Marsh, 2013). There are individual differences in dimensional…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Majkowski, Bruce Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Many undergraduate architecture programs have experienced high attrition levels, dating back to the 1940s (McClure, 1948). Despite this longstanding nature, many architecture faculty consider it an indicator of the quality of the program, not a problem to fix (Wiencke, 1994). However, the recession in 2008 had far-reaching effects, greatly…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Architectural Education, Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
Pacheco, Beatriz – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Literacy rates among male adolescents continue to fall below those of female adolescents, and this trend shows no indication of improving (Cheung & Slavin, 2014; Gurian & Stevens, 2007; Weins, 2005; Clark, 2006; Cantrell & Carter, 2009). This study aims to examine this trend by measuring the effects of extended literacy learning…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adolescents, Gender Differences, Literacy Education