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Hornbeck, Dustin; Malin, Joel R.; Duncheon, Julia C.; Tan, Jing – NASSP Bulletin, 2023
Dual enrollment policies and programs, where students earn both high school and college credits, have been scaled up across the United States in the last two decades. In this mixed methods study, we survey high school principals in Ohio and Texas, two states with robust dual enrollment policies. The study addressed one broad research question:…
Descriptors: Principals, High Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Dual Enrollment
Hernandez, Selina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This transcendental phenomenological study will explore the lived experiences of Southern Texas Mexican American/Chicana women pursuing a doctorate. The Chicana's experience achieving a doctorate has been overlooked by the literature, with much of the research on Mexican American women being outdated or focusing on completing high school or…
Descriptors: Females, Doctoral Students, Student Experience, Mexican Americans
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Kwok, Andrew; Rios, Ambyr; Kwok, Michelle – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
In this large-scale qualitative study, we use an emergent design to explore pre-service teachers' (PST) motivations to enter the profession. We open-code 2,798 PSTs responses to the directive, 'Explain why you decided to become a teacher', given over the course of a six-year period from one large Texas teacher preparation programme. Using constant…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Motivation, Career Choice, Elementary Secondary Education
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Moody, Shanna; Bowden, Randall; Brock, Jesse; Bunch, Phillis – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
Student retention has not changed in almost 40 years despite the plethora of attention. Maybe it is time to look at it differently. The study examines the relationships of parental education level, educational aspirations, and engagement. The National Survey of Student Engagement data were used in the analyses, but it raised questions about the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Academic Aspiration, College Freshmen
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Minhee Eom; Jean Braithwaite – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The motivation of linguistically diverse young adults to learn Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) was studied at a university on the US-Mexico border. This diglossic setting permitted a complex investigation of multiple elements, including L2-motivation theoretical attributes, exposure to Korean contemporary pop culture, and the linguistic and…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, College Students, Student Motivation
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Janire Zalbidea; Diego Pascual y Cabo; Sergio Loza; Alicia Luque – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study sought to investigate the psychological network structure of adult Spanish heritage language (HL) learners' motivational profile by considering interconnections among the following variables: the possible HL selves, family influence, intended HL learning effort, HL achievement goal orientations, HL enjoyment, HL anxiety, perceived…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Self Concept
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Betts, Macon; Grabsch, Dustin K.; Davis, Veronica D.; Bell, Laura M.; Sheedy, Faith Ann – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
College students engage with religion, faith, and spirituality for a variety of reasons; however, current literature exploring these motivations is limited. We utilised a constructivist, qualitative, phenomenological design and surveyed 201 students to understand their motivations for pursuing faith, religion, or spirituality. Of those surveyed,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Spiritual Development, Constructivism (Learning)
Redmond, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undocumented children immigrants in the United States experience significant hurdles pursuing higher education due to their illegal status, resulting in lower rates of college attendance for children arriving before the age of 14 than U.S. born children. The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program aims, in part, to remove these…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Academic Persistence, Student Motivation
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Mingli Han – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Teaching robotics courses online is challenging due to the complexity of the interdisciplinary topics involved. One of the most challenging topics is 3D coordinate transformations. Students often struggle to grasp the concept of 3D coordinate transformations and their relevance to real-world robotic applications. This paper applies the Scholarship…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Robotics, Assignments, Computer Software
Dea'Vanca Simon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Earning a bachelor's degree or work certificate can close social equity gaps and increase social mobility and economic stability in American society. Barriers exist to upward mobility for underrepresented groups (first-generation, low socioeconomic, African American, and Hispanic). Underrepresented students are falling below their peers in…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap
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Odom, Summer F.; Woodruff, Tearney; Shehane, Melissa R.; Dooley, Kim E.; Stein, Megan – Journal of Leadership Education, 2021
The Maroon & White Leadership Program at Texas A&M University is a formal leadership program that involves students completing eight leadership experiences including leadership education, training, and development dimensions. Students also reflect on each leadership experience and meet with a leadership coach to synthesize the experience.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Leadership Training, Student Attitudes, Reflection
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Heflin, Houston; Macaluso, Suzanne – Online Learning, 2021
Assessing the degree to which students engage and learn from their online courses will be important as online courses are becoming more ubiquitous. This study sought to capture student perceptions of their independence as learners, their level of engagement, their effort exerted, and the amount of information they learned in online courses. The…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Cinthya Salazar; Kassidy Shaye Giles; Jennifer Ruth Ackerman – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
In this qualitative case study, using Freire's theory of critical consciousness development, we examined the influence of a 1-credit immigration policy service-learning course on college students' motivations to act against immigration injustices. We found that after witnessing immigration issues at the Lower Rio Grande Valley area in Texas,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Refugees, Consciousness Raising
Jessica M. Sanchez-Barrera – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although there is high enrollment in online college courses, there are concerns about student engagement (Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Dumford & Miller, 2018). Gamification has been shown to have the potential to improve student engagement. The purpose of the study was to describe how academic student engagement is impacted by Nicholson's…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Gamification, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
Shundrika B. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2021
College-level students experience various life stressors that impact them academically, mentally, and physically. They struggle to navigate through those stressors; however, campus counseling services are underutilized. (Laidlaw et al., 2016). The central purpose of this Dissertation in Practice was to understand college-level students' perception…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Counseling Services, Barriers
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