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Ronnie Semo; Emerick Chew; Kate Dowling; Cameron Forrest; Somayeh Parvazian – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
Students who perform well at school academically are more likely to complete Year 12 and experience smoother transitions from education to employment. However, disentangling the effects of prior academic achievement on later performance from other confounding factors, such as socioeconomic status, has proved difficult. This study uses data from…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Literacy
Roxy D. Glass – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was designed to investigate whether teacher literacy content knowledge affects student achievement in Texas schools. Teacher participants from Texas public schools completed a three-part survey. In Parts 1 and 2, teachers completed a demographic section and teacher knowledge of foundational reading skills. The survey consisted of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Craft, Judy A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The satellite university campus is becoming more prominent in Australia, and may consist of a large proportion of students of low socio-economic status (SES). Concurrently, there is a governmental target to increase the proportion of low SES students at university. However, there are concerns that students of low SES may be less successful at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Low Income Students
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Liu, Xin – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The purpose of the present study was to explore whether professional skepticism can be learned in a classroom setting, an issue that has received scant attention in the prior literature. A questionnaire was administered to students enrolled either in the accounting program or in the business administration program of a large college in China. The…
Descriptors: Accounting, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education
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Anderton, Ryan S.; Evans, Tess; Chivers, Paola T. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Students commencing tertiary education enter through a number of traditional and alternative academic pathways. As a result, tertiary institutions encounter a broad range of students, varying in demographic, previous education, characteristics and academic achievement. In recent years, the relatively constant increase in tertiary applications in…
Descriptors: Prediction, Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, Physiology
Lange, Tyana – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Institutions of higher education (IHEs) are competing to recruit students in a crowded market with the number of colleges on the increase and the number of high school seniors declining. IHEs are looking for effective ways to recruit students and increase retention and graduation rates. Relationship marketing (RM) is an approach from business that…
Descriptors: Role, Marketing, Higher Education, Student Recruitment