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Li, Yixuan; Yao, Xiang; Chen, Kun; Wang, Yi – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
This study examines whether students perceive three different types of fit in an academic environment (i.e., interest-major [I-M] fit, demands-abilities [D-A] fit, and needs-supplies [N-S] fit) and whether these factors predict important academic and well-being criteria using a Chinese student sample. Results from confirmatory factor analyses…
Descriptors: Personality Theories, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Factor Analysis
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Fischer, Mary J. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2010
This paper employs hierarchical linear models to explore the long-term effects of stereotype threat on college outcomes for students in the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen. Performance burden was negatively related to both grades and social satisfaction with college. Social satisfaction with college was also significantly impacted by…
Descriptors: Social Life, Student Attitudes, Stereotypes, Grade Point Average
D'Alessandro, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2009
The NEAIR 2009 Conference Proceedings is a compilation of papers presented at the Baltimore, Maryland conference. Papers in this document include: (1) A Principle Components Analysis of The Determinants of Student Satisfaction at a Historically Black Institution (Tao Gong and Jacqueline V. Parham); (2) Assessing and Enhancing Graduates'…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Satisfaction, Black Colleges
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Herzog, Valerie W.; Anderson, Dennis; Starkey, Chad – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2008
Objective: To identify those factors that influence freshmen application to Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)-accredited undergraduate ATEPs having a secondary admissions process. (All undergraduate ATEPs are now accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)). Design and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Surveys, College Freshmen, Allied Health Occupations
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Widdows, Richard; Hilton, Peggy J. – College and University, 1990
An institution should know what its students expect of it and should perform post-enrollment evaluations of the extent to which those expectations are realized. A questionnaire with 30 factors based on Chadwick and Ward's attributes scale was sent to beginning students at a large Midwestern university. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Choice, College Freshmen, College Students
Testa, Alec M. – 1996
The DATAWave is a bi-weekly publication that is designed to inform the campus community and broader constituencies on assessment issues and practices at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). The first issue of this fourth volume covers survey results about the effectiveness of the ENMU Assessment Resource Office (ARO) and presents a fall preview…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Graduates, Cultural Pluralism
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Fielstein, Lynda L.; Bush, Lauren K. – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1998
A survey of 196 freshmen seeking to identify noncognitive variables influencing pre-college decision making, satisfaction with the freshman experience, and academic confidence found that academically underprepared students were older, went to college later, reported more satisfaction with academic advising, and were less accepting of American…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Advising, Age Differences, College Bound Students