This qualitative research study aimed to identify factors, as perceived by Administration and Leadership Studies doctoral student graduates and faculty mentors, that were helpful in securing terminal degree success. Strategies employed and obstacles overcome are detailed from both groups' perspectives. The researchers conducted the study at a…

STEM students often struggle in their first-year fundamental courses. Negative psychological states after the first exam in those courses can serve as either a source of demotivation or motivation throughout the semester. We examined how self-efficacy altered the effect of regret about their first exam on course performance. Using a longitudinal…

Very little research examines how students and faculty members view the appropriateness of a variety of reasons for changing majors. In this study, we surveyed 260 students and faculty members from a large, public US university about their perceptions and beliefs about the appropriateness of changing an academic major for a wide range of reasons.…

Four-hundred-and-sixty-six undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a self-administered 46 item online survey (Undergraduate Survey on Attitudes toward a College Education) developed by the authors. Age of respondent was the only demographic factor significantly associated with being apathetic- the younger the student, the…

Mentoring sixty-three undergraduate students online yielded information through distance learning discussion to provide changes by improving the delivery and learning acquisition of new skills in online education. Responses from mentors and mentees having used and experienced various mentoring techniques were analyzed and results further indicated…