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Direct linkSublett, Cameron; Gottfried, Michael A. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background/Context: One approach to address the shortage of STEM-proficient high school graduates has been the development of applied STEM coursework, which seeks to increase STEM interest and retention by illustrating the interconnectedness and accessibility of STEM concepts. Importantly, however, no research has yet examined which student and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Course Selection (Students), Parents
Bottia, Martha Cecilia; Stearns, Elizabeth; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Moller, Stephanie; Parker, Ashley Dawn – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Schools are integral to augmenting and diversifying the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. This is because K-12 schools can inspire and reinforce students' interest in STEM, in addition to academically preparing them to pursue a STEM career. Previous literature emphasizes the importance of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Science, Science Careers, High School Students
Gelen, Ismail – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Gardner's "Five Minds for the Future" approach is focused on disciplined, synthesizing, creative, respectful, and ethical minds. Based on this approach, the purpose of this research is to determine senior secondary school students' levels of five mind areas, and investigate the relationship between these mind areas and the students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Socioeconomic Status
Download full textGemici, Ahu; Wiswall, Matthew – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2011
Over the past 40 years, the level of human capital investments has changed substantially for men and women. Changes in the intensive margin of college major selection have been also been substantial, as the number of graduates in humanities, social science, and teaching has declined, and the number in science, engineering, and business has…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Human Capital, Majors (Students), Postsecondary Education
Hawkins, Christy D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify academic factors that might predict online course success for community college students. Online course success was a focus of national research and debate as studies consistently indicated lower success rates in online courses as compared to traditional courses; however, research that identified academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
Colangelo, Augustus B. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a dynamic model and survey instruments to study the presence, strength, and susceptibility to change of the factors that influence the "choice of major" decision in an undergraduate population of business school students, and to determine if the factors are the same for male and female…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Higher Education, Models, Majors (Students)
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Trusty, Jerry – Center for School Counseling Outcome Research (NJ1), 2004
Using data from a national study spanning 12 years, I examined the effects of several middle-school and high-school variables on completion versus non-completion of the bachelor's degree. All young people in the study had attended college with the purpose of attaining the bachelor's. Several variables had practically significant effects on degree…
Descriptors: Student Development, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Experience
Zhang, Wei-yuan; Yeung, Lai-hung Au – Distance Education, 2003
The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the first online self-directed inventory on the measurement of academic programme preferences (MAPP) for potential students at the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). In this study, trait-factor theory and personality type theory were employed. 1,963 respondents in Hong Kong were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Lifelong Learning, Distance Education
