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Verbree, Anne-Roos; Hornstra, Lisette; Maas, Lientje; Wijngaards-de Meij, Leoniek – Research in Higher Education, 2023
In recent decades, female students have been more successful in higher education than their male counterparts in the United States and other industrialized countries. A promising explanation for this gender gap are differences in personality, particularly higher levels of conscientiousness among women. Using Structural Equation Modeling on data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, College Students
Curs, Bradley R.; Harper, Casandra E.; Frey, Charles; Wolak, Brandon – Research in Higher Education, 2023
This study presents the results of a regression discontinuity empirical approach to investigate the effects of postseason bowl game participation on student-athlete academic outcomes and subsequent football team success. The practice expectations for student-athletes on football teams that participate in a bowl game increase by between two and…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Team Sports, Student Athletes, College Students
Swanson, Elise; Cole, Darnell – Research in Higher Education, 2022
We use survey data from three four-year campuses to explore the relationship between academic validation and student outcomes during students' first 3 years in college using structural equation modeling. We examine both a psychosocial outcome (mattering to campus) and an academic outcome (cumulative GPA). We find that both frequency of…
Descriptors: College Students, Peer Acceptance, Self Concept, Grade Point Average
Lawson, Katie M. – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Women drop out of male-dominated majors (MDMs) at a higher rate than men (Blickenstaff 2005). Research is needed to better understand contextual factors in the major, such as social interactions in major classes, that may increase women's engagement in MDMs and ultimately reduce attrition (Lawson et al. in Sex Roles 78:542-560, 2018). The present…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Disproportionate Representation, Females
Pu, Shi; Yan, Yu; Zhang, Liang – Research in Higher Education, 2020
This study provides empirical evidence related to two critical assumptions in the student engagement literature in higher education--namely, the malleability of study effort and the causality of the relationship between study effort and student outcomes. We merged student-level administrative data on dormitory assignments, study effort in a hybrid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dormitories, Peer Influence
Larose, Simon; Duchesne, Stéphane; Litalien, David; Denault, Anne-Sophie; Boivin, Michel – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This longitudinal study was aimed to describe and understand student adjustment trajectories during the college transition. Participants came from a large random sample of Quebec high school students. They completed a multidimensional measure of adjustment at two times before entering college and at two other times after college admission.…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, High School Students, College Bound Students, College Students
Lingo, Mitchell D. – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This study uses the Wabash National Study on Liberal Arts Education to understand student study abroad participation while holding a student's prior intent to study abroad constant. The study augments previous use of the data set by (1) holding intent to study abroad constant across models and (2) focusing on study abroad participation and the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intention, Study Abroad, Student Participation
Baker, Rachel; Evans, Brent; Li, Qiujie; Cung, Bianca – Research in Higher Education, 2019
Time management skills are an essential component of college student success, especially in online classes. Through a randomized control trial of students in a for-credit online course at a public 4-year university, we test the efficacy of a scheduling intervention aimed at improving students' time management. Results indicate the intervention had…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Online Courses, Academic Achievement, Performance Factors
Standish, Trey; Umbach, Paul D. – Research in Higher Education, 2019
This study uses college student survey data and corresponding administrative data on campus recreation facility usage, academic performance, physical education class attendance, and co-curricular participation to examine nonresponse bias in college student surveys. Within the context of the Groves (Public Opin Q 70:646-675, 2006) Alternative Cause…
Descriptors: Bias, College Students, Student Surveys, Evidence
Bartolj, Tjaša; Polanec, Sašo – Research in Higher Education, 2018
In this article we analyze the effects of student work on academic performance for college students. In order to reduce the endogeneity bias due to selection into treatment, we use propensity score matching technique. This approach allows us to estimate the effects of student work separately for different years of study, which is not possible when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Probability, Grade Point Average
Diette, Timothy M.; Raghav, Manu – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Colleges and universities offer classes that meet for different lengths of time and different numbers of days per week, such as classes that meet 2 days and those that meet 3 days. Traditionally triweekly classes that met for a shorter duration were more common than classes that met biweekly for a longer duration. Biweekly classes are becoming…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Liberal Arts, College Faculty, College Students
Johnson, Iryna Y.; Muse, William B. – Research in Higher Education, 2017
Females are underrepresented in certain disciplines, which translates into their having less promising career outlooks and lower earnings. This study examines the effects of socio-economic status, academic performance, high school curriculum and involvement in extra-curricular activities, as well as self-efficacy for academic achievement on…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Majors (Students), Engineering Education, State Universities
Poldin, Oleg; Valeeva, Diliara; Yudkevich, Maria – Research in Higher Education, 2016
We study how the achievements of university students are influenced by the characteristics and achievements of peers in individuals' social networks. Defining peer group in terms of friendship and study partner ties enables us to apply a network regression model and thereby disentangle the influence of peers' performance from that of peers'…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Peer Relationship, Social Networks, Social Psychology
Olitsky, Neal H. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
The United States government recently enacted a number of policies designed to increase the number of American born students graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), especially among women and racial and ethnic minorities. This study examines how the earnings benefits of choosing a STEM major vary both by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Womens Education, Females, Ethnic Groups
Johnson, Iryna Y. – Research in Higher Education, 2014
The idea that female faculty might serve as role models for female students has led to studies of the effect of female faculty on female student performance. Due to varying levels of aggregation of the measure of student exposure to female faculty--percentage of female faculty at an institution or department, percentage of classes taught by…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Role Models, Women Faculty