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Pre-Enrollment Tests to Predict First-Year Academic Achievement in Open-Admission Higher STEM Education
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Jolan Hanssens; Carolien Van Soom; Greet Langie – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
The societal demand for graduates with expertise in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) stands in contrast with prevalent issues of diminished interest among high school students in STEM subjects and low completion rates in STEM academic programs. In the Flemish educational context, heterogeneity in STEM preparedness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Higher Education, At Risk Students
Bridging Contextual and Individual Factors of Academic Achievement: A Multi-Level Analysis of Diversity in the Transition to Higher Education
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De Clercq, Mikaël; Galand, Benoit; Hospel, Virginie; Frenay, Mariane – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
The transition to higher education has been extensively documented in the literature. In this line, many individual variables were identified as strong predictors of academic achievement. Yet, this literature suffers from one main limitation; contextual factors have often been left out of the investigation. The majority of studies have tested the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Predictor Variables
Do Diligent Students Perform Better? Complex Relations between Student and Course Characteristics, Study Time, and Academic Performance in Higher Education
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Masui, Chris; Broeckmans, Jan; Doumen, Sarah; Groenen, Anne; Molenberghs, Geert – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Research has reported equivocal results regarding the relationship between study time investment and academic performance in higher education. In the setting of the active, assignment-based teaching approach at Hasselt University (Belgium), the present study aimed (a) to further clarify the role of study time in academic performance, while taking…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Business Administration Education, Economics Education
Effects of Teachers' Instructional Development on Students' Study Approaches in Higher Education
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Stes, Ann; De Maeyer, Sven; Gijbels, David; Van Petegem, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Evidence regarding the impact of teachers' instructional development on student learning in higher education is scarce. In this study the authors investigate the impact of an instructional development programme for beginning university teachers on students' approach to studying. They also explore whether this impact is dependent on class size and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Countries
Do ICT Competences Support Educational Attainment at University?
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De Wit, Kurt; Heerwegh, Dirk; Verhoeven, Jef C. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
Taking into account that universities assume students will have at least some basic knowledge of the use of computers and the Internet, we hypothesize that the command of ICT skills by freshmen could have an influence on their educational attainment. To test this hypothesis an online questionnaire was used, which was answered by a representative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Grade Point Average, Educational Attainment
Student Models of Learning and Their Impact on Study Strategies
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Ferla, Johan; Valcke, Martin; Schuyten, Gilberte – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This study aims to identify student models of learning (sets of "intra-student" cognitions about learning) and to investigate their effect on study strategies. A two-step cluster analysis identified four student models of learning, representing students' self-efficacy beliefs, learning conceptions, attributions for academic performance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Multivariate Analysis, Study Skills, Learning Strategies