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Yapeng Wang – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Despite decades of national efforts to increase students' participation and success in STEM, bachelor's degrees in STEM continue to notably lag the labor force demand. Asian students represent one group that disproportionately contributes to the share of STEM degrees. Understanding their experiences can help to illuminate ways of increasing STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Time to Degree, Asian American Students, Females
Hobson, Charles J.; Griffin, Andrea; Novak, John M.; Mitchell, Mary Beth; Szostek, Jana; Burosh, Jennifer; Hobson, Ana – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
Six-year college graduation rates for Hispanic and White students from 17 cohorts were analyzed using data from the U.S. Department of Education's IPED System. Results from regression analyses confirmed statistically significant positive linear trends for Hispanic and White students and statistically significant differences between the two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Trend Analysis, Hispanic American Students, White Students
Kosonen, Toni; Annala, Johanna; Penttinen, Leena; Mäkinen, Marita – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article explores university students' approaches to and positions with regard to making the most of their study time. The article discusses how various normative societal expectations around students' use and management of time feature in their talk about how they organise their everyday lives. The research is based on thematic interviews (n…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Time Management, Learning Activities, Student Attitudes
Steven Silber – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many students arrive at colleges and universities underprepared for college-level mathematics courses. In the United States, these students are required to complete developmental mathematics courses before completing the required mathematics courses for their degrees. Students who are required to take developmental mathematics courses frequently…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Undergraduate Students
Claire Ellison – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2023
Developing assessment and feedback strategies to assist students with progression and graduation is a key focus for many higher education institutions. However, student engagement with feedback is often poor and they can find it difficult to act upon; often stating the feedback is generic or of insufficient quality for improvement. Here, I present…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Decision Making, Comparative Analysis
Schmidt, Henk G.; Baars, Gerard J. A.; Hermus, Peter; van der Molen, Henk T.; Arnold, Ivo J. M.; Smeets, Guus – European Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The purpose of the study reported here was to observe the effects of examination practices on the extent to which university students procrastinate. These examination practices were: (1) limiting the number of resits, (2) compensatory rather than conjunctive decision-making about student progress, and (3) restricting the time available for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Study Habits, Decision Making, Undergraduate Students
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2023
The "2023 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report" is the latest edition of the annual progress report designed to provide the Nebraska Legislature with comparative statistics to monitor and evaluate progress toward achieving three key priorities for Nebraska's postsecondary education system. They are: (1) Increase the number of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Government, Academic Persistence, Academic Degrees
Roy Y. Chan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Credit hour policies, or performance-based financial aid policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers seeking to improve degree completion rates. In the Unites States, the college completion agenda has been bolstered by national calls from intermediary organizations and philanthropic foundations alike to raise the overall rate and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, College Credits, Minority Group Students, Full Time Students
Garbarini, Laticia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine doctoral students' reasoning for completing the required course work for their degree, but not completing their dissertation and thus the degree. There had not been formal research conducted on the students at Lindenwood that had not completed the doctoral program and the variables behind their not…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts
Knight, William; Wessel, Roger D.; Markle, Larry – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2018
The study sought to determine whether students with disabilities are disadvantaged because of state and institutional performance-based policies providing incentives for 4-year graduation. In a longitudinal study of 32,187 students at a Midwestern Research University, the retention and graduation rates, and mean years to graduation, of students…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Academic Persistence, Disadvantaged, State Policy
Sanabria, Tanya; Penner, Andrew; Domina, Thurston – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Colleges offer remedial coursework to help students enrolling in post-secondary education who are not adequately prepared to succeed in college-level courses. Despite the prevalence of remediation, previous research presents contradictory findings regarding its short- and long-term effects. This paper uses a doubly robust inverse probability…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Remedial Instruction, Two Year College Students, College Preparation
Mitra, Sinjini; Beenen, Gerard – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2019
Online learning has grown tremendously over the past decade. As the trend continues, it is important to understand which students are likely to choose to enroll in online courses and which factors affect their performance. This study explored the differences in motivational factors among students enrolled in online and traditional face-to-face…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cognitive Style, State Universities, Prediction
Davidson, J. Cody; Blankenship, Paul – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Today, many full-time students spend one, two, or more additional years completing a 2-year associate or 4-year bachelor degree. In order to reduce this time frame, many institutions are utilizing a 15 to Finish campaign to encourage full-time students to enroll in 15 credits each semester. The first purpose of this study was to examine if there…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Credits, Success, Comparative Analysis
Gallagher, Thomas Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Two-year college transfer education has been promoted as a cost-effective path for achieving the baccalaureate, but increased time-to-degree could nullify this assumption. The Montana University System (MUS) recently expanded the mission for its two-year college system by adding the transfer function. This non-experimental quantitative research…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, College Transfer Students, Grade Point Average, Comparative Analysis
Blau, Gary; Mittal, Neha; Schirmer, Michael; Ozkan, Bora – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Online education continues to grow at business schools. The authors compared undergraduate business student perceptions across three different classroom learning delivery environments: online, hybrid, and face to face. Based on the survey responses using two independent samples, the authors' analyses found that students who preferred online…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Business Administration Education