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Sorgen, Carl H., IV. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This research empirically explores how sexual identity influences higher education outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) college students. A path model was constructed with structural equation modeling using responses from 1,125 non-heterosexual college students. The model includes four psychological variables (level of sexual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Structural Equation Models, Peer Groups
McCullough, Aaron Keith – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Research suggests that numerous factors affect community college attendance. Therefore, when students choose to attend community college, those factors often are key aspects of their decisions. Nonetheless, limited information exists that identifies which particular traits affect community college choice and how the background characteristics of…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, College Choice, College Attendance
Henninger, Kira Liese – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Treatment integrity has always had a presence in research, but now more than ever must become a priority owing to the changes in Special Education Law. The present study intends to explore the relationship between factors of implementation, treatment integrity of intervention implementation, and reading fluency. Participants included students in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Grade 2, Teachers
Fry, Donald W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
While withdrawal from higher education may be the result of many reasons both within and beyond the control of the student or the institution, the intent of not returning to higher education indicates the acceptance of a permanent disassociation with the pursuit of the higher education endeavor. It is of paramount importance in understanding the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Causal Models, Academic Persistence
Meechai, Ann K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to examine and empirically test the language learning motivation model used to propose a new theoretical construct, the "L2 Motivational Self System," as conceived by Dornyei et al. (2006), in a different second language (L2) learning context. In addition, the study identified the interrelationships of the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
Pratt, Robert C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Instant messaging systems--a type of social networking technology that connects people who are physically separated but working together--have seen a dramatic rise in use in globally dispersed organizations, yet there is an absence of academic research in predictive factors of instant messaging adoption. This study examined the factors influencing…
Descriptors: Intention, Program Effectiveness, Path Analysis, Information Technology
Hooten, Regina Gay – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined the relationship of holistic scoring with handwriting legibility, spelling accuracy and number of T-units within compositions written by children in grades 3 through 6 using path analysis. A sample of 223 compositions was rated for handwriting legibility and composition quality, and coded for number of T-units and percentage of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Handwriting, Holistic Evaluation, Scoring
Pianki, Francis O. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to answer three specific research questions regarding students within a nontraditional, part-time, two year, cohort based MBA program. How satisfied are the students with this particular program? What are the factors and their relationship that best describe overall satisfaction? Are there differences in student…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Part Time Students, Nontraditional Students
Lytell, Maria C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Organizational tolerance of sexual harassment has been repeatedly touted as an important antecedent of sexual harassment. Yet, not much is known about the antecedents of perceptions of organizational tolerance. Based on theories from the sexual harassment, organizational justice, and psychological climate literatures, individuals were hypothesized…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Sexual Harassment, Females, Models
Stephenson, Ethan Van – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Ample evidence suggests that attending college is positively associated with an increased level of civic engagement. However, few studies develop and test a conceptual model that investigates which elements of the collegiate experience affect the development of civic engagement. Therefore, this study focused on the development and testing of a…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Involvement, Citizen Participation, Path Analysis
Yousif, Wael K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This causal and correlational study was designed to extend the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and to test its applicability to Valencia Community College (VCC) Engineering and Technology students as the target user group when investigating the factors influencing their decision to adopt and to utilize VMware as the target technology. In…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Intention
Welch-Scalco, Rhonda Jeannean – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Parenting a child with a disability is a lifelong journey. The coping strategies utilized by parents impact the well-being of the family, especially the mothers. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the maternal well-being of Latina and Anglo mothers who have a child with severe to profound disabilities. Predictive variables, such as…
Descriptors: Mothers, Caregivers, Young Adults, Path Analysis
Gudi, Arvind – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Natural and man-made disasters have gained attention at all levels of policy-making in recent years. Emergency management tasks are inherently complex and unpredictable, and often require coordination among multiple organizations across different levels and locations. Effectively managing various knowledge areas and the organizations involved has…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Program Effectiveness, Efficiency, Surveys
Hamilton, Tonisha – ProQuest LLC, 2010
According to the US Department of Education (2001), Black college students, when compared with other racial groups, have the highest drop out rate at both two-year and four-year colleges. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine factors that might place Black students at risk of discontinuing their higher education. A path analysis was…
Descriptors: African American Students, Higher Education, Black Colleges, Racial Identification
Ramdass, Darshanand H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This primary goal of this study was to investigate the effects of strategy training and self-reflection, two subprocesses of Zimmerman's cyclical model of self-regulation, on fifth grade students' mathematics performance, self-efficacy, self-evaluation, and calibration measures of self-efficacy bias, self-efficacy accuracy, self-evaluation bias,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Achievement, Path Analysis