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Direct linkFerguson, Heather Loraine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Problem: Higher education serves many stakeholders including students, parents, faculty, staff, university administrators, and other contributors. Those stakeholders are all linked with one purpose: the success of the student. That success or failure is most commonly measured by achievement through grade point average (GPA). The academic demands…
Descriptors: Motivation, Self Efficacy, Correlation, Academic Achievement
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Download full textReed, Susan C.; Rosenberg, Helen; Statham, Anne; Rosing, Howard – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2015
This study explores the role of community service learning (CSL) in promoting undergraduate persistence relative to other experiences students have in college, their entering characteristics, and institutional features. By following the 2009 freshmen cohort at three Midwestern universities over three years, this study finds that students'…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence, Role
Luetke, Barbara – American Annals of the Deaf, 2009
Some U.S. universities use Web-based formats to offer most of the course work required to become a certified teacher of the deaf. Yet little research exists on how students judge the content and delivery of such courses compared to on-campus instruction. Parton (2005) described previous research concerning this topic as descriptive rather than…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Distance Education, Deafness, Web Based Instruction
Shepard, Linda L.; And Others – 1992
This paper presents and discusses longitudinal data collected through surveys completed by students (n=1,545) in the 9th and 11th grades to determine what factors influence a student's change in plans for postsecondary education. Twenty-one Indiana high schools were selected to ensure that the sample proportionally represented students from all…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attitude Change, Career Planning, Expectation
Hossler, Don; And Others – 1991
This study examined a longitudinal data set (9th through 12th grade students from Indiana) to pose questions about the importance students place on certain college and university attributes as part of their college choice process. Using factor analysis, analysis of variance, and discriminant analysis on data about a representative sample of 110…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Choice, Decision Making, Family Characteristics
Indiana State Commission for Higher Education, Indianapolis. – 1989
Beginning in 1985, freshmen enrolled on a part-time basis in associate degree programs in Indiana postsecondary institutions were tracked for eight semesters to determine rates of retention and attrition. In 1985, associate degree-seeking freshmen with a declared major constituted 12% of the total undergraduate population in the state, and 74% of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Freshmen
