As the global population continued to have broader Internet access, primarily through the rising use of smartphones, further study was needed regarding the symptoms and repercussions of Internet Addiction. A new term was coined for the levels of anxiety generated when a person was separated from their smartphone--nomophobia. The purpose of this…

Student athletes are constantly facing scrutiny over whether they should be characterized as athlete students or student athletes. As a result, student athlete academic support has evolved, driven by the NCAA metrics for student athletes, and finding new ways to support student athletes is more important than ever. This study examined the effect…

The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental study was to explore the association between school success after the tier-one introduction of a three-tiered restorative practices program. To understand school success, student factors were examined using middle school data from a suburban school district located outside of a large metropolitan…

Previous studies have examined stress' potential impact on undergraduate college student academic outcomes. The existing literature has defined the populations' lived experiences of stress as a significant factor that can often destabilize a student's physical and mental health, as well as detract from a student's ability to achieve targeted goals…

This study evaluated a special education program designed to educate emotionally vulnerable high school students. Public schools face a unique challenge to educate students with varying disabilities and individual struggles. When a student possesses academic skills but cannot demonstrate them in a traditional classroom setting due to social and…

Students coming into college lack the basic non-cognitive skills necessary for success in higher education. As a result, many students struggle in their early courses. Most college admissions focus on cognitive measures such as high school grade point averages (GPA) and high-stakes exams; however, these factors alone are not the sole predictors of…

First-year seminar courses have become increasingly popular for colleges and universities as they are expected to help aid in the transition to college and help students persist to graduation (Culver & Bowman, 2020). Utilizing pre-existing data from the Office of Institutional Research Effectiveness and Planning (IREP), the…

The purpose of this quantitative correlational associative study was to determine if, or to what extent, there was a statistically significant correlation between the sub-scales of transformational leadership (inspirational motivation, high performance expectations, modeling appropriate behaviors, individualized consideration, intellectual…

Critics of developmental studies suggest that remedial courses may negatively influence a student's program selection, persistence, and completion because remedial classes do not count toward graduation requirements (Long & Boatman, 2013). They have also found that over half of the students referred to remediation do not complete the courses…

Student success courses are a common strategy for addressing student retention in higher education. Though the literature implies positive effect on student outcomes, few studies have explored factors contributing to their efficacy, especially within the community college context. The purpose of this modified Delphi study was to identify essential…

The problem in this project study is that too many student-athletes earn less than a 2.39 grade point average at the study university. The purpose of the project study was to evaluate the self-regulated learning (SRL) skills of student-athletes to determine if there was a statistical difference in skills used among academically challenged and…

The study explored the relationship between how many student success programs and which programs first-year students of color at the University of Kansas (KU) participated in and how this was related to outcomes of retention to sophomore-year and first-year GPA. The study used data from the University of Kansas of students of color who…

Amongst several recent policy changes, argued in this paper to be neoliberal and constituting structural violence, the Connecticut community college system (CCC) Board of Regents has begun placing students based on self-reported GPA, but studies on the effects of these changes have not included multi-lingual learners (MLL). Using a census of every…

This quantitative study used archived student records to determine which high school and postsecondary factors are the most significant predictors of college retention among 2,175 students enrolled at the University of West Georgia in Fall 2018. A two-tailed t-test was conducted for research questions one and two to analyze the high school GPAs…

This descriptive correlational study examined the predictive relationships between ACT composite scores, high school GPA, ACT testing attempts, and gender with teacher candidate's overall performance on the edTPA and each of the three edTPA instructional tasks (Task 1, Task 2, and Task 3). The edTPA is a portfolio-based subject-specific teaching…