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Direct linkMelissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Linda Jepkoech Kimaru; Magdiel A. Habila; Namoonga M. Mantina; Diego Niña Lopez; Forest Melton – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on university students' academic performance. Participants: Our sample consisted of students 18 years old and above enrolled at least part-time during the Spring 2020 semester. Methods: This cross-sectional survey examined the individual, social, and economic impacts of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Minority Group Students
Lewis, LaCinda Smoot – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the effect of the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) Scholarship on college cohort retention, college cohort completion, and college cohort time to completion--important student performance markers in an era of fiscal accountability. Over the six-year span (2006 - 2012) of this one year, renewable) full-tuition…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scholarships, Undergraduate Students, Outcomes of Education
Laurel Lucy Mo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative predictive correlation study was to address the lack of research regarding the impacts of persistence factors on the educational outcomes of Hispanic college students. The study was a predictive correlation design with a criterion variable of grade point average (GPA). Predictor variables were the persistence…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Persistence, Hispanic American Students, Community College Students
Download full textClements, Peggy; Auchstetter, Amelia; Lin, Shuqiong; Savage, Corey – American Institutes for Research, 2022
This is the final report of an independent evaluation of the CompuPower program that was developed by Arizona State University's Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (ASU CGEST). CompuPower is a multifaceted program for high school students that is centered on a culturally responsive computing course that includes four key…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, High School Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Secondary School Curriculum
Bos, Johannes M.; Graczewski, Cheryl; Dhillon, Sonica; Auchstetter, Amelia; Cassasanto-Ferro, Julia; Kitmitto, Sami – American Institutes for Research, 2022
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation and impacts of the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model in its first year of implementation in 66 schools across the U.S. and to document scale-up progress during the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant period (2017-2021). The impact evaluation included 21,529 9th grade students…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Hickman, Gregory P.; Sabia, Magaret F.; Heinrich, Randy; Nelson, LaCoñia; Travis, Frances; Veri, Tracy – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2017
The authors examined the predictive nature of attentional biases and initial grade point average of ninth graders dropping out of high school. Attentional biases are cognitive shifts in focus that are linked in both time and context toward stimuli perceived by an individual as threatening. Data were collected from 68 high school freshmen (45.6%…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, High School Freshmen, Predictor Variables
Cooper, Katelyn M.; Krieg, Anna; Brownell, Sara E. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2018
Academic self-concept is one's perception of his or her ability in an academic domain and is formed by comparing oneself to other students. As college biology classrooms transition from lecturing to active learning, students interact more with each other and are likely comparing themselves more to other students in the class. Student…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Physiology
Hill-Zuganelli, Dee; Cabrera, Nolan L.; Milem, Jeffrey F. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2017
Established in 2008, the Arizona Assurance Scholars Program (AASP) channeled institutional needbased aid to in-state, low-income students. Rapidly growing costs prompted three changes to the AASP eligibility requirements in 2011. We examined how these new requirements--a 3.0 or higher high school grade point average and the submission of the Free…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Needs, Barriers, Low Income Groups
Cabrera, Nolan L.; Miner, Danielle D.; Milem, Jeffrey F. – Research in Higher Education, 2013
This longitudinal study assesses the impact of the University of Arizona's New Start Summer Program (NSSP) on participants' first year GPA and retention, controlling for incoming student characteristics. While programmatic participation significantly predicted first-year GPA and retention, this relationship became insignificant when controlling…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness, College Freshmen
Adams, Alison E. M.; Garcia, Jocelyn; Traustadóttir, Tinna – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Two sections of Genetics and Evolution were taught by one instructor. One group (the fully flipped section) had the entire class period devoted to active learning (with background material that had to be watched before class), and the other group (the partially flipped section) had just a portion of class time spent on active learning (with the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design, Undergraduate Study, College Science
Ali, Jinnat; McInerney, Dennis M.; Craven, Rhonda G.; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; King, Ronnel B. – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The authors examined the relations between two socially oriented dimensions of student motivation and academic achievement of Native (Navajo) American and Anglo American students. Using confirmatory factor analysis, a multidimensional and hierarchical model was found to explain the relations between performance and social goals. Four first-order…
Descriptors: Correlation, White Students, Navajo (Nation), American Indian Students
Hunting, Dan – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2015
Helios Education Foundation has sponsored administration of the ACT test to all high school juniors in selected Arizona school districts since 2009 through the District Choice State Testing (DCST) program. Morrison Institute for Public Policy was asked to identify highly achieving low-income students from this group. Highly achieving students were…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, High Achievement, Low Income Groups
Shealy, Linda C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Over one million high school students drop out of school each year in this country. Dropping out of school is a serious problem for the student, community, and the nation. Often dropouts are unable to compete in an increasingly technological society and face numerous consequences from their decision to leave school early including higher levels of…
Descriptors: Dropouts, High School Students, High School Graduates, Identification
D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Bonner, Sarah M. – Educational Assessment, 2009
Many U.S. students must pass a standards-based exit exam to earn a high school diploma. The degree to which exit exams and state standards properly signal to students their preparedness for postsecondary schooling has been questioned. The alignment of test scores with college grades for students at the University of Arizona (n = 2,667) who took…
Descriptors: State Standards, Exit Examinations, Cutting Scores, High School Graduates
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