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Paul C. Price; Kiana Crisosto; Anthony Carvalho; Constance J. Jones; Meaghan McCready; Amber Shaver; Andrea N. Wiemann – Teaching of Psychology, 2024
Background: Utility-value (UV) classroom interventions typically involve students completing assignments that involve writing about the usefulness of the course material. They are widely recommended and have received some empirical support. Objective: This study tested the effectiveness of a UV intervention in an online research methods course. It…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Research Methodology, Intervention, Undergraduate Students
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Annie M. Wofford; Katie N. Smith; Breann L. Branch – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Motivated by ongoing gender disparities in engineering, the authors qualitatively examine how collegiate STEM student organizations serve as affirming spaces for women's engineering identity development, countering their exclusionary classroom environments. Drawing from interviews and written data with 24 undergraduate women, findings demonstrate…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Females, STEM Education, Student Organizations
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Zelalem Zekarias Oliso; Demoze Degefa Alemu; Jonathan David Jansen – Journal of International Education in Business, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of educational service quality (ESQ) on student academic performance via the mediating role of student satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: To serve the study's purpose, the study adopted a quantitative research approach. Three public universities representing 30% of the ten public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Jorge Burmicky; Victor B. Sáenz; Wonsun Ryu – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2024
Community college presidents play a critical role in making decisions that shape the organizational cultures and policies of their institutions. This study explored the perceptions of 15 public community college presidents in Texas. Using focus groups and grounded theory methods, this research applied analytical frameworks focused on human…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Presidents, Human Resources, Decision Making
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Jesse Gleason; Resha Cardone; Andrew Bartlett – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, we continue to take stock of student learning. Although the "crisis-context" (Gacs et al., 2020) move to fully online instruction may be over, a complete understanding of how student outcomes have been impacted remains. The present study focuses on how students' Spanish language proficiency, as…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Language Tests, Spanish
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Muhammad Shahid; Muhammad Uzair-ul-Hassan; Iram Parveen – Cogent Education, 2024
Professional stagnation is a complex condition. The current study aims to unveil how professional stagnation starts, how it spreads, and what factors sustain it, particularly in the context of academics and management in public sector colleges. An exploratory sequential design is used to conduct the study. Initially, a semi-structured interview is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Public Colleges, Faculty Development
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Maham Muzamil; Maria Shiraz; Farzana Iqbal; Gulzar H. Shah; Masha Asad Khan – Cogent Education, 2024
Educational institutions that prioritize diversity and inclusion initiatives can enhance students' sense of involvement and belonging, irrespective of demographic differences. This study aims to explore how college students in Pakistan perceive their academic institutions' support for diversity and inclusion. Convenience sampling was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Diversity (Institutional)
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Tekalign Geleta Kenea; Fisseha Mikire; Zenebe Negawo – Cogent Education, 2024
The core of the educational system is students' academic performance, which demands sensitive measures. In this situation, teacher-made tests (TMTs) are more promising, but they can be susceptible to measurement error if not well designed. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the properties of TMTs and students' academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Performance, Testing
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Reza Hemmati; Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Hadighe Ebrahimi – Learning Environments Research, 2024
The college classroom is the main setting of higher education institutions, wherein students get unique opportunities to learn and form new relationships and experiences. This study aimed to provide a qualitative description of female students' experiences of college classrooms. The participants were 28 undergraduate female students who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges
Krystal Ann Laryea – ProQuest LLC, 2024
How do people navigate institutional life together amid deep differences? Existing work highlights the mechanisms that drive and challenge exclusion and polarization, but these theories do not account for the moral frameworks, both implicit and explicit, that guide action. My dissertation brings tools from cultural and interactionist sociology to…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Self Concept, Sense of Community, Differences
Katherine A. Beardall – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I examined the how honors programs and colleges serve as a tool for public universities to compete with private universities in the rankings game, as well as examining how that contributes to stratification processes. By building on the existing literatures within the organization of higher education, student experiences in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Honors Curriculum, College Students, Public Colleges
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Kendall J. Faulkner; Tiffanie L. Ford-Baxter – College Teaching, 2024
Information literacy (IL) is generally accepted as an important learning competency in undergraduate education and is directly and indirectly mentioned in many national accrediting bodies' standards. While information literacy has been seen as the sole domain of librarians, research shows that disciplinary faculty believe it is important and teach…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Information Skills, Teaching Methods, Public Colleges
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Neil van der Ploeg; Kelly Linden; Ben Hicks; Noelia Roman – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Universities actively promote themselves to potential students, control admissions and deliver programs of study. For most students globally, there are financial costs to attending university. At the extreme end of failure are students who receive 'zero-fails': they enrol, do not submit any assessments, and receive a mark of 0 out of 100. A…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Bachelors Degrees, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Ridwan Daud Mahande; Nurul Mukhlisah Abdal; Nasir Nasir – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effect of learning styles on HyFlex learning towards equity of learning in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative approach was used, with data collection through a structured online questionnaire. The study participants were undergraduate students (n = 451) studying at various…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Equal Education, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Wakgari Tasisa Duressa; Befekadu Zeleke Kidane – Review of Education, 2024
Despite the abundance of research linking leadership behaviours to organisational effectiveness in various sectors, there is a lack of empirical studies that investigate how leadership behaviours influence performance in the context of research universities. The present study examined the effects of leadership behaviours on departmental…
Descriptors: Leadership, Administrator Behavior, Performance, Public Colleges
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