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Wheatley, Kathryn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Transfer students often come from lower-income backgrounds, fail engage post-transfer, and graduate at lower rates than their native peers. Engagement is recognized as a factor connected to college student success. This study examines a business college cohort to determine the connections between pre-transfer student and school characteristics,…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students, Student Participation
Hegwood, Jenita Carroll – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the types of preparation that students used to prepare for the Texas Examination for Educators Standards (TExES) Examination. Specifically, this study was concerned with the different types of preparation methods that impact test scores based on gender, ethnicity, age and specialization. The…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Test Wiseness, Teacher Competency Testing, Teacher Certification
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Polacek, Georgia Johnston N. L.; Hicks, Jennifer A.; Oswalt, Sara B. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2007
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection rates in the United States continue unabated among some groups, with young adults of color at greater risk than others. This study sought to determine college students' knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Undergraduate students (N = 443) at a large, urban Hispanic-serving…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Communicable Diseases, At Risk Persons, Student Attitudes