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Bennett, Doris; McCarty, Cynthia; Carter, Shawn – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2021
A student's academic success depends on many factors, including aptitude, effort, personality traits, and social and financial situations. This analysis examines the impact on academic performance in the short-term and long-term, measured by course grade and grade point average, respectively of grit, ethnicity, gender, financial stress, and being…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement, Financial Problems, Paying for College
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Santos, Antonio J.; Peceguina, Ines; Daniel, Joao R.; Shin, Nana; Vaughn, Brian E. – Social Development, 2013
This study tested assumptions and conclusions reached in an earlier confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) study of the social competence (SC) construct for preschool children. Two samples (total N = 408; a new Portuguese sample and one from US samples that had participated in the original study) contributed data. Seven SC indicators were tested for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development
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Chen, Steve; Marciani, Louis; Ryder, Cynthia; Ward, Rosalie; Allen, David – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2006
This study assessed the service quality of United States Sports Academy 's online course curriculum and examined the factors, which affected the students' overall satisfaction of their educational experience with the Academy. The results generated were based on 449 responses (male = 331, female = 118) of the student evaluation survey that were…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Educational Quality, Online Courses, Student Satisfaction