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The Examination of Hindering Factors of 2-Year Community College Students' Vertical Transfer to 4-Year Colleges
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Rahime-Malik Howard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current study examined hindering factors of 2-year community college students' vertical transfer to 4-year colleges. Rational choice theory guided the study and provided the scope of the problem, which is community college students' apprehension about vertically transferring to 4-year colleges. A quantitative Likert-scale survey, which…
Descriptors: Barriers, Community College Students, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students
Critical Thinking Dispositions and Decision Making as Predictors of High School Students' Perceived Problem Solving Skills
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Orhan, Ali – Journal of Educational Research, 2022
In this non-experimental quantitative study, it was aimed to investigate if high school students' critical thinking (CT) dispositions, decision making (DM) styles, and perceived problem solving (PS) skills differ by gender and their CT dispositions and DM styles are significant predictors of perceived PS skills. The study was carried out with 170…
Descriptors: High School Students, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Personality
Structural Relationships among Academic Procrastination, Academic Motivation, and Problem Solving Skill in Prep Class College Students = Üniversite hazirlik ögrencilerinin akademik erteleme, akademik motivasyon ve problem çözme becerileri arasindaki yapisal iliskiler
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Yurtseven, Nihal; Dogan, Selçuk – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2019
Academic procrastination has been one of the major problems among students from different levels of education, specifically for college students. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of problem solving skill, a kind of cognitive skill, as well as academic motivation on academic procrastination behaviors of university students. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes
Bidirectional Relations between Autonomous Motivations and Approach Goals and Their Contribution to School Functioning
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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Larose, Simon – Educational Psychology, 2022
This study examined the cross-lagged relationships between students' autonomous motivations (intrinsic motivation and identified regulations) and approach goals (mastery and performance) in school. The sample included 449 students (52% girls) in Grades 7 and 8 (secondary 1 and 2). Results showed that intrinsic motivation (IM) positively predicted…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personal Autonomy, Student Motivation, Grade 7
Coming to College Hungry: How Food Insecurity Relates to Amotivation, Stress, Engagement, and First-Semester Performance in a Four-Year University
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Daniel A. Collier; Dan Fitzpatrick; Chelsea Brehm; Eric Archer – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2021
This exploratory inferential, single-university study (N=700) joined institutional, external, and survey data to examine how first-year students' food insecurity links to non-cognitive attributes, first-semester performance, and persistence. Regressions indicate LGBTQ, multi-racial, international, transfer, and first-generation students exhibit…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Hunger, College Students, Student Motivation
Experimental Evidence for a First-Year Experience Course plus Mentoring on Moderate-Income University Students' Engagement, Achievement, and Persistence
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Fitzpatrick, Dan; Collier, Daniel A.; Parnther, Ceceilia; Du, Yu; Brehm, Chelsea; Willson-Conrad, Angela; Beach, Andrea; Hearit, Keith – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Colleges and universities are paying increasing attention to students' transition into post-secondary education, including the provision of support to freshmen through structured First-Year Experiences (FYEs). Although low- and-moderate-income students are participating in post-secondary education at increased rates, their performance remains…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Mentors, Student Characteristics