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Elkins, Susan A.; Braxton, John M.; James, Glenn W. – 1998
This study examined first- to second-semester persistence of first-time, full-time college freshmen at a public four-year institution, focusing on Tinto's (1993) concept of separation. Data were collected from 689 first-time, full-time freshmen using the Cooperative Institutional Research Program 1995 Student Information Form, and from 411…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Family Income
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Braxton, John M.; Bayer, Alan E.; Noseworthy, James A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2002
Describes college students' role in the detection of teaching misconduct, providing results from a study suggesting that the role undergraduate students can play in detecting teaching wrongdoing is tenuous at best and asserting that the graduate school socialization process, institutional codes of conduct, and faculty peer sanctions must assume…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Social Control
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Elkins, Susan A.; Braxton, John M.; James, Glenn W. – Research in Higher Education, 2000
Explored first- to second-semester persistence of first-time, full-time freshmen (n=411) at a public four-year institution, focusing upon Tinto's concept of separation. The dimensions of (1) support and (2) rejection of attitudes and values were found to influence persistence in a statistically significant way. (DB)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Emotional Response, Higher Education
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Braxton, John M.; Bayer, Alan E.; Noseworthy, James A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
When the instructor violates the norms of teaching, there is an impact on student learning.
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Behavior, Student Welfare