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Direct linkAnn Atwater; Mark Rush; Perihan Saygin – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
As a result of the increase in online course offerings at colleges and universities, the prevalence of online and computerized examinations has increased over the last two decades. Beyond academia, online examinations have been used to assess competence for certifications by both governments and private firms. Despite this importance, a randomized…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, College Students, Economics Education, Research Universities
Isaac A. Sanders; Quortne R. Hutchings; Daniel J. Wilson; Shae C. Large; Giovanina Kelly; Jason C. Garvey; Ronald L. Huesman – New Directions for Higher Education, 2025
Understanding students' progression to major choice, expected career outcomes, and further study has become a central challenge for leaders at higher education institutions as the nation struggles with worker shortages in critical areas. For queer and trans students, there are significant differences compared to their heterosexual/cisgender peers…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, College Students, Majors (Students), Research Universities
James W. Fraser – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025
Once the unifying center of American higher education, religion has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past 220 years. From its origins as the core of a unified understanding of truth as it was taught at the nation's first colleges to its current presence on the periphery of campus life, religion has both shaped and been shaped by the…
Descriptors: Religion, Higher Education, United States History, College Environment
Download full textKelsey Harvey; Celeste Suart; Martha Cassidy-Neumiller; Fairuz Karim; Alyssa Minhas; Jacob Krone; Julia Evanovitc – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
The conceptualization of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [SoTL] has evolved over its 30-year history. This study sought to understand how faculty, staff, and students at a research-intensive institution in Ontario, Canada label and describe SoTL. We performed an environmental scan that consisted of: 1) mining academic journal titles to…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, College Students, School Personnel
Stephanie A. Brescia; Cara L. Cuite – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Food insecurity is prevalent among college students nationwide, but barriers preclude students from accessing campus food pantries (CFP). A multimethod approach was used to understand why students at a large, public research university who screened positive for food insecurity did not use the CFP. Survey (n = 82) and interview (n = 8) data…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Food, Social Services, Campuses
Xuehan Zhou; Liping Ma; Shangcong Bu; Wei Ha – Research in Higher Education, 2025
This paper examines the effect of class size on student's academic and behavioral performance in synchronous online courses, utilizing student-level administrative data and website clickstream data from a research university in China. By examining variations in class sizes within students but across classes, we revealed a significant negative…
Descriptors: Class Size, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, College Students
Breaking the Cycle? An Exploration of Academic Matching and Rural Students' College Choice Processes
Wolfgang, Christopher M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The issue of academic undermatching involves students enrolling at colleges and universities below the level of selectivity to which their academic profiles indicate they could gain admission. Undermatching has received significant attention because students who undermatch have been shown to experience less favorable outcomes than their peers who…
Descriptors: College Choice, Rural Population, College Students, Student Experience
Babes-Vroman, Monica; Nguyen, Thuytien N.; Nguyen, Thu D. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2022
With the number of jobs in computer occupations on the rise, there is a greater need for computer science (CS) graduates than ever. At the same time, most CS departments across the country are only seeing 25-30% of women students in their classes, meaning that we are failing to draw interest from a large portion of the population. In this work, we…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Diversity, Computer Science Education, Research Universities
Sarah D. Castle; W. Carson Byrd; Benjamin P. Koester; Meaghan I. Pearson; Emily Bonem; Natalia Caporale; Sonja Cwik; Kameryn Denaro; Stefano Fiorini; Yangqiuting Li; Chris Mead; Heather Rypkema; Ryan D. Sweeder; Montserrat B. Valdivia Medinaceli; Kyle M. Whitcomb; Sara E. Brownell; Chantal Levesque-Bristol; Marco Molinaro; Chandralekha Singh; Timothy A. McKay; Rebecca L. Matz – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Background: Large introductory lecture courses are frequently post-secondary students' first formal interaction with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Grade outcomes in these courses are often disparate across student populations, which, in turn, has implications for student retention. This study positions such…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Research Universities, Grades (Scholastic)
Eugene T. Parker – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
This study utilized 2014 data from the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) to explore the association between Black college students' perceptions of the campus diversity climate and academic outcomes, including academic behaviors, engagement, GPA and satisfaction with the academic and social experience. Findings revealed climate…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Students, African American Students, College Environment
P. Brandon Johnson – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
Research on reflections and their use in academic support programs has highlighted their benefits concerning student leaders or tutors as an evaluative tool to document performance and measure personal growth. Largely absent from the literature is evidence of the possible benefits reflections could have on the students using academic support…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Peer Groups, College Students, Student Leadership
Jessica Joanne Inman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Learning behaviors within the college union has long been critical to the mission of college student union facilities and those who work within them. The rising costs of construction and renovation have created pause as administrators seek data and answers to justify expenses for these facilities. This study aimed to develop an instrument to…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, College Students, Student Unions, Learner Engagement
Ashley N. Robinson – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Frontline student affairs educators' work puts them in close contact with students, both socially and emotionally, meaning that they may experience a unique pressure to balance and represent both the priorities of their organizations and students' needs and interests (Perez, 2016). Given that institutional policies and practices to respond to…
Descriptors: Racism, Student Personnel Workers, Experience, Educational Practices
Al Abri, Maimoona H.; Bannan, Brenda; Dabbagh, Nada – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2022
Shifting from open educational resources (OER) to open educational practices (OEP) is the next stage in the OER movement, but there have been few attempts to understand how the next phase in this movement will be achieved. Addressing this question can uncover the potential benefits of OER besides cost reduction. The current study represents the…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Program Development, College Students, Intervention
Xianping Liang; Noah D. Drezner; Oren Pizmony-Levy; Jian-Zhong Zhou – Comparative Education Review, 2025
Fundraising from and engaging with alumni, once synonymous with American higher education, has gained momentum worldwide. However, we know little about how potential donors receive this practice. This article investigates how Chinese students--or future alumni--think about their responsibility to support their alma mater. We analyzed a survey of…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Private Financial Support, Asian Culture, Western Civilization
