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Direct linkWestrick, Paul A.; Schmidt, Frank L.; Le, Huy; Robbins, Steven B.; Radunzel, Justine M. R. – Educational Assessment, 2021
This meta-analytic path analysis presents evidence that first-year academic performance (FYAP), measured by first-year grade point average (FYGPA) plays the major role in determining second-year student retention and that socioeconomic status (SES), measured by parental income, plays a negligible role. Based on large sample data used in a previous…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Grade Point Average
Cela-Ranilla, Jose Maria; Gisbert, Merce; de Oliveira, Janaina Minelli – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
Providing information about how 1st-year students learn may help colleges plan actions aimed at increasing students' persistence in higher education programs. This research aims to assess 1st-year students' academic performance, using a path analysis to establish inter-correlations among students' personality traits, learning patterns, high school…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Personality, Path Analysis
Brown, Steven D.; Tramayne, Selena; Hoxha, Denada; Telander, Kyle; Fan, Xiaoyan; Lent, Robert W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study tested Social Cognitive Career Theory's (SCCT) academic performance model using a two-stage approach that combined meta-analytic and structural equation modeling methodologies. Unbiased correlations obtained from a previously published meta-analysis [Robbins, S. B., Lauver, K., Le, H., Davis, D., & Langley, R. (2004). Do psychosocial…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Structural Equation Models, Persistence, Academic Achievement
Tauriac, Jesse J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Researchers express growing concern over the increasing higher education achievement gap between subgroups of Black American students (e.g., Massey, Mooney, Torres, & Charles, 2007). Whereas the number of degrees awarded to Black females has consistently grown for each of the past twenty years, the number of degrees awarded to Black males during…
Descriptors: African American Students, First Generation College Students, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement
