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Akareem, Husain Salilul; Hossain, Syed Shahadat – Open Review of Educational Research, 2016
In recent decades, the commercialization of education has become more apparent and the need for using marketing tools is greater than before. This study aims to identify the demographic and background information of students that differentiate their perception about quality of higher education. A sample of 432 students was taken from five top…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Pugh, Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The topic of this study was student motivation and intention to graduate at a for-profit university. The research problem addressed is only 23% of bachelor's degree-seeking students at for-profit universities persist to graduate within six years. Students who leave without graduating incur more debt and earn less money over time. Grounded in an…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Intention, Academic Persistence, Student Motivation
Ames, Cathrine D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Unique challenges affecting the influx of online doctoral learners create opportunities to enhance their experience by mitigating limited contact. This quantitative causal-comparative and correlational study examined differences based on frequency and duration of video-based coaching doctoral learners received from their dissertation chairs, at a…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Correlation
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Shukla, P. K.; Shukla, Monica P. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2014
Community Service Learning (CSL) believes that university and colleges should incorporate community based service projects into courses. There are faculty and administrator supporters who argue for such proposals to require community service learning components into classes, but there are also faculty and administrator critics of such proposals.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Gender Differences, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students
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Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The study explores the possibilities of gender, ethnicity, and religion differences on attributions (locus of control, stability, personal and external control), motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, religiosity, racial/ethnic identity, and academic…
Descriptors: College Students, State Universities, Private Colleges, Gender Differences