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Direct linkFu, Yuan Chih; Lee, Hsiu Ming; Wang, Li-yun; Chen, Sheng Lee – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
In this study, we investigate the growth trajectory of 519 students in a vocational senior high school in Taiwan. The group-based trajectory model identifies 3 subgroups with distinct trajectories of academic achievement in Math and English. This study reveals baseline predictive factors associated with these trajectories as well as relationships…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Academic Aspiration, Vocational High Schools, High School Students
Wang, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study expands understanding of Chinese international undergraduate students' stay inclinations in the United States. It analyzed a sample of 247 Chinese undergraduate students from a public Midwestern research university during Spring 2017. This study compared the differences in stay inclinations between Chinese undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Universities, Foreign Students, Comparative Analysis
Download full textGlennie, Elizabeth J.; Mason, Marcinda; Edmunds, Julie A. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
In many countries, novice teachers, or those with fewer than four years of experience, have a higher turnover rate than do more experienced teachers. Using teacher employment data, we examine whether schools in an American whole-school reform model are better able to retain novice teachers. Using survey data, we investigate whether novice teachers…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Novices, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction
Henriques, David I. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of learning communities for underprepared first-year students. The topic was examined by synthesizing data collected on a cohort of first-year college students participating in a "developmental" (special admittance) program. A quasi-experimental design evaluated the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Freshmen, Developmental Programs, Quasiexperimental Design
Peer reviewedAlwin, Duane F. – Sociology of Education, 1976
Discusses two methods of assessing the effects of school socioeconomic composition on students' college plans in the framework of a general school effects model. The author identifies problems of measurement but stresses the general usefulness of both the contextual variables method and the analysis of covariance method for studying group effects.…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Higher Education
Gray, Kenneth C.; Herr, Edwin L. – 2000
This book explains how high school teachers and counselors can modify their schools' existing programs to create viable options for noncollege-bound students and help them regain control over their lives. Chapters 1-7 discuss the following topics: (1) rescuing a generation adrift; (2) recognizing the forces behind the "one way to win" mentality;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Case Studies
