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Marcia M. Louis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current study is among undergraduate students at a mid-sized regional doctoral-granting four-year public university in the Southwestern United States. The purpose of the study was to compare the self-efficacy and sense of belonging of students who experienced a transition program before beginning their college careers to those who did not.…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Self Efficacy, Public Colleges, Sense of Community
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Bulbul Ahamed; Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas; Ahmed Imran Kabir; Abu Saleh Md. Sohel-Uz-Zaman; Abdullah Al Fahad; Saima Chowdhury; Mrittika Rani Dey – SAGE Open, 2024
The purpose of the study is to examine how cybersecurity knowledge, password security, and self-perception of skill affect cybersecurity awareness issues via the mediating lens of cybersecurity attitude among university students in Bangladesh. A sample of 430 university students from two public and three private universities provided the data in…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Information Security, Knowledge Level, College Students
Rachel Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Graduation rates remain troublingly low for African American female students, despite their increased enrollment rates into higher education institutions. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the factors of persistence that lead to the academic success of African American female college students. A total of 10 participants engaged…
Descriptors: African American Students, Public Colleges, Universities, Females
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Yu, Baohua; Mak, Anita S.; Bodycott, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Existing research on the psychological and academic experiences of China-born students studying outside of China has mainly been conducted in Western English-speaking countries. Using a coping resources framework, we investigated the predictors of psychological and academic adaptation of 2,201 mainland Chinese students (74% female) studying in…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Acculturation, College Students, Young Adults
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Nausheen, Munaza; Richardson, Paul William; Alvi, Effat – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
While most of the research on gender and subject level differences has been conducted with same group of students studying different subjects, these differences have been comparatively less examined at college/ university level among postgraduate students enrolled in different study domains. This paper presents the results of the multivariate…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, Graduate Students, Beliefs
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Al Darwish, Salwa – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this research study is to determine the level of influence of parental education, social and financial status on their senior college students by encouraging them to pursue higher degrees. The sample of the study was 313 senior college students randomly selected from private and public universities in Kuwait to answer the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences
Ali, Akhtar; Topping, Keith J.; Tariq, Riaz H. – New Horizons in Education, 2009
Background: Entrepreneurship has become an emerging field of research in America, Europe and Asia. It has contributed a lot in uplifting the socioeconomic status of the countries. Well reputed International Journals are widely publishing on a variety of entrepreneurial issues. A little research in the area has so far been reported from Pakistan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes