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Direct linkLabrosse, Julie; Gaudreault, Marco; Picard, France – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
The choice of selected school options by pupils in secondary school, particularly mathematics and physical sciences, have implications for future educational pathways in higher education [Felouzis, G. (1997). "L'efficacité des enseignants, Sociologie de la relation pédagogique." Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; Moreau, G. (2005).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Choice, College Freshmen, High School Graduates
Download full textDuran, Muharrem – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The aim of this study is to reveal differences between attitudes and approaches of students from different types of high school and the first grade of university towards problem solving in chemistry. For this purpose, the scale originally developed by Mason and Singh (2010) to measure students' attitude and approaches towards problem solving in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Problem Solving, Chemistry
Sass, Tim R. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2015
I investigate the determinants of high school completion and college attendance, the likelihood of taking science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) courses in the first year of college and the probability of earning a degree in a STEM field. The focus is on women and minorities, who tend to be underrepresented in STEM fields. Tracking four…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Minority Group Students, Graduation
DeNicco, James; Harrington, Paul; Fogg, Neeta – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
This paper explores the factors of freshman year college retention by using a unique data set tracking the participation of a cohort of 1,800 students in a public state college system through 2011 from their freshman enrollment at a community college in 2006. The focus is on prevalent factors in the college retention literature, including…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Public Colleges
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2012
Comprising eleven financial aid programs, the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) provided financial aid to 101,569 students at a cost of $297,589,674 in 2010-11 (Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation [TSAC], 2011). The four largest programs (the HOPE scholarship program, the General Assembly Merit Scholarship program [GAMS], the…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, Grants, Science Teachers, Dual Enrollment
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2013
The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program was designed to meet the unique needs of the state of Tennessee while also incorporating the hallmark elements of existing merit-based aid programs in other states. Developed through a process involving elected officials and members of the academic community, the TELS program aims to…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Scholarship Funds, Merit Scholarships, Public Policy
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2008
The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program was designed to meet the unique needs of the state of Tennessee by incorporating the hallmark elements of existing merit-based aid programs in other states. Developed through a process involving elected officials and members of the academic community, the TELS program aims to address the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Colleges, Family Income, Academic Persistence
