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Why Do All the Study Abroad Students Look Alike? Applying an Integrated Student Choice Model to Explore Differences in the Factors that Influence White and Minority Students' Intent to Study Abroad
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Salisbury, Mark H.; Paulsen, Michael B.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Research in Higher Education, 2011
Despite substantial efforts across postsecondary education to increase minority participation in study abroad, the homogeneity of study abroad participants remains largely unchanged (Dessoff in Int Educ 15(2):20-27, 2006; Shih in http://diverseeducation.com/article/13193/study-abroad-participation-up-except-among-minority-students.html, 2009).…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Differences, Liberal Arts, Minority Groups
To See the World or Stay at Home: Applying an Integrated Student Choice Model to Explore the Gender Gap in the Intent to Study Abroad
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Salisbury, Mark H.; Paulsen, Michael B.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Research in Higher Education, 2010
Although interest in study abroad has grown consistently in recent decades, study abroad professionals and higher education scholars have been unable to explain or rectify the long-standing gender gap in study abroad participation. This study applies an integrated model of the student-choice construct to explore differences between male and female…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Gender Differences, Student Participation, Cultural Capital
The Conditional and Interaction Effects of Epistemological Beliefs on the Self-Regulated Learning of College Students: Motivational Strategies
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Paulsen, Michael B.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – Research in Higher Education, 2005
This study examines the conditional and interaction effects of each of four dimensions of the epistemological beliefs of college students regarding the ability to learn, the speed of learning, the structure of knowledge, and the stability of knowledge on six measures of the motivational components of self-regulated learning strategies (intrinsic…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, College Students, Student Motivation
Domain Differences in the Epistemological Beliefs of College Students.
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Paulsen, Michael B.; Wells, Charles T. – Research in Higher Education, 1998
A study found college students majoring in "pure" disciplines were less likely than those in applied fields to hold naive beliefs in simple knowledge, quick learning, and certain knowledge. Gender, age, grade point average were also related to beliefs. Results suggest students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning are related to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, College Students, Comparative Analysis