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Lisnyj, Konrad T.; Gillani, Nafisa; Pearl, David L.; McWhirter, Jennifer E.; Papadopoulos, Andrew – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: To synthesize peer-reviewed primary research exploring factors associated with perceived stress impacting post-secondary students' academic success. Methods: A systematic review identified research conducted in North America, Europe, and Australia in the last ten years across 12 databases. Results: Of the 6,214 references screened, 14…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, College Students, Success, Academic Achievement
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Fong, Carlton J.; Gonzales, Cassandra; Hill-Troglin Cox, Christie; Shinn, Holly B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Nearly all college students require some academic assistance throughout their learning experiences. Rather than a dependent act, help-seeking is a self-regulated and motivated strategy; however, there are mixed findings regarding the relationship between academic help-seeking and academic achievement. Thus, the current study used meta-analytic…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Academic Achievement, Postsecondary Education, College Students
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Kember, David; Leung, Doris; Prosser, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
As higher education has made the transition from elite to mass enrolments, the student body has become more diverse and online and blended learning have become more common. This study aimed to examine the impacts on attrition of admitting a more diverse student body with the shift towards online and blended learning. A hypothesised path model of…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Student Attrition
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Anderton, Ryan S. – Australian Journal of Education, 2017
With an increasing number of students enrolling into Australian universities, developing an understanding of the variables underlying academic success, is growing in importance. In the present study, three first-year cohorts (2013-2015) studying towards five allied health or science degrees (n = 1,676 students) were examined to ascertain the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Student Attrition
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Seidel, Ewa – Journal of Institutional Research, 2014
The current methodology of estimating load in the following year at Flinders University has achieved reasonable accuracy in the previous capped funding environment, particularly at the university level, due largely to our university having stable intakes and student profiles. While historically within reasonable limits, variation in estimates at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Resource Allocation
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Eddey, Peter; Baumann, Chris – Journal of Education for Business, 2009
The authors conducted an analysis of 1,049 graduates from post-graduate business programs at an Australian university primarily to determine whether students from nonbusiness backgrounds, after completing a business preparation program, perform at the same academic level as students with prior studies in business. The authors found that students…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Marketing, Business Education, Educational Policy