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Multilevel Factors Affecting College Students' Perceived Knowledge Transferability: From the Perspective of Self-Determination Theory
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Wang, Cong; Zhang, Ying; Moss, Jennifer D.; Bonem, Emily M.; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Promoting students' ability to transfer or apply their knowledge and skills to real-life situations is critical in higher education. The current study was designed to test the likelihood that the constructs based on self-determination theory (SDT) framework help understand college students' perceived knowledge transferability. A total of 3783…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Transfer of Training, Self Determination, Student Motivation
Beyond Traditional Measures of STEM Success: Long-Term Predictors of Social Agency and Conducting Research for Social Change
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Garibay, Juan C. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Despite the importance of preparing socially responsible graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to address the current state of poverty and inequality, very few studies in higher education have examined the development of STEM students' outcomes critical to promoting a more equitable society, typically focusing on…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Predictor Variables, Social Change, Undergraduate Students
Testing the Efficacy of a Scholarship Program for Single Parent, Post-Freshmen, Full Time Undergraduates
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Carpenter, Dick M., II; Kaka, Sarah J.; Tygret, Jennifer A.; Cathcart, Katy – Research in Higher Education, 2018
This study examines the efficacy of a scholarship program designed to assist single parent, post-freshmen, full time undergraduate students and predictors of success among a sample of said students, where success is defined as progress toward completion, academic achievement, and degree completion. Results of fixed effects regression and…
Descriptors: Scholarship, One Parent Family, Undergraduate Students, Hierarchical Linear Modeling