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Academic Help-Seeking and Achievement of Postsecondary Students: A Meta-Analytic Investigation
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Fong, Carlton J.; Gonzales, Cassandra; Hill-Troglin Cox, Christie; Shinn, Holly B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Nearly all college students require some academic assistance throughout their learning experiences. Rather than a dependent act, help-seeking is a self-regulated and motivated strategy; however, there are mixed findings regarding the relationship between academic help-seeking and academic achievement. Thus, the current study used meta-analytic…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Academic Achievement, Postsecondary Education, College Students
Content-Based Course Recommender System for Liberal Arts Education
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Morsomme, Raphaël; Alferez, Sofia Vazquez – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Liberal Arts programs are often characterized by their open curriculum. Yet, the abundance of courses available and the highly personalized curriculum are often overwhelming for students who must select courses relevant to their academic interests and suitable to their academic background. This paper presents the course recommender system that we…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Course Selection (Students), Courses, College Students
Resitting or Compensating a Failed Examination: Does It Affect Subsequent Results?
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Arnold, Ivo – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
Institutions of higher education commonly employ a conjunctive standard setting strategy, which requires students to resit failed examinations until they pass all tests. An alternative strategy allows students to compensate a failing grade with other test results. This paper uses regression discontinuity design to compare the effect of first-year…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Regression (Statistics), Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Predicting Academic Success in Higher Education: What's More Important than Being Smart?
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Kappe, Rutger; van der Flier, Henk – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2012
This study investigated the combined predictive validity of intelligence and personality factors on multiple measures of academic achievement. Students in a college of higher education in the Netherlands (N = 137) completed a survey that measured intelligence, the Big Five personality traits, motivation, and four specific personality traits.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence, Higher Education, Grade Point Average
Alternative Missing Data Techniques to Grade Point Average: Imputing Unavailable Grades.
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Smits, Niels; Mellenbergh, Gideon J.; Vorst, Harrie C. M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2002
Studied the use of grade point average as a missing data technique for unavailable grades in school grade records. Results of 2 studies, 1 involving 2,080 Dutch college students, and the other involving 446 Dutch college freshmen, show that alternative missing grade methods produced better and more consistent predictions than other missing data…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Grade Point Average, Grades (Scholastic)
Explaining Achievement in Higher Education
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Jansen, Ellen P. W. A.; Bruinsma, Marjon – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
This research project investigated the relationship between students' pre-entry characteristics, perceptions of the learning environment, reported work discipline, the use of deep information processing strategies, and academic achievement. Ability measured by grade-point average in pre-university education was the most important predictor of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, College Students