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Academic Factors that Predict Community College Students’ Acceptance of Evolution
… research has been conducted to understand which factors influence the understanding and acceptance of evolution among high school and university students -- and the general public -- there are few studies focusing on community college students. In an effort to help fill this gap in the …
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Academic and Non-academic factors that lead students to be successful at University
The present paper makes reference to the factors that lead students to be successful at university. In this essay, seven factors have been considered. They were divided into two categories. The most important factors are in the first group: motivation, financial security, learning environment, …
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Social and Academic Factors that Contribute to Resiliency for At-Risk Students in Georgia Universities
… purpose of this study was to examine resiliency factors in at-risk college students to provide insight and strategies for college administrators who have a genuine desire to attract and retain these students. The researcher focused on college students who were minority, low-income and first …
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Academic and non-academic factors as predictors of early academic success in bacclaureate nursing programs
… purpose of this study was to examine selected academic and non-academic variables of first-term nursing major students to identify variables that correlate with early in-program success, and second, to compare the predictive efficiency between widely used nursing entrance tests (i.e., NET, …
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The relationship of mathematics prerequisites and other academic factors to student achievement in two Virginia community colleges
… was to identify relationships between selected academic variables and student achievement and time of matriculation for students enrolled full-time at two Virginia community colleges; and to ascertain from those relationships the potential for predicting community college achievement. Data were …
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Non-Academic Factors that Predict Persistence of Non-Traditional Students Attending Community College in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… the purpose of this study was to identify non-academic social and emotional factors that are related to the ability of nontraditional<br />students to persist towards their academic goals within the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). This study included a sample of 1694 students. Their …
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The Role Of Academic Factors, Self-Efficacy, Mentoring Relationships, And Learning Communities In Persistance And Academic Success Of Freshmen College Students
… determine the extent to which social-cognitive factors, such as high school GPA, ACT scores, first semester college GPA, college self-efficacy and perceptions of mentorship support influence freshmen's intent to persist and academic success. </p> <p>Pearson Correlations, Standard Multiple …
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The Message 2.0: Perceptions of Success from Members of the Founding Class of MC Squared STEM High School
… model of student success composed of non-academic factors of motivation, social connectedness, and self-management was used for the lens from which to understand the six students in depth. Through the research, it was uncovered that diversified learning environments, a mastery based …
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Multiple Predictors of College Adjustment and Academic Performance for Undergraduates in Their First Semester
… success, as defined by adjustment to college and academic performance, is a multidetermined with a number of contributing influences, including academic factors, personality variables, family characteristics, and environmental factors. This study attempted to provide an organizing model of the …
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La Reprobación Estudiantil Universitaria en la Licenciatura de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Facultad Multidisciplinaria Oriental, Universidad de El Salvador
… student failure has been multi-determined by academic and non-academic factors. Academic factors include structural factors, such as the institutions' educational policy, teaching-learning processes, and the teacher-student relationship. Non-academic factors include social, familial, and …
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Access to guidance and counselling by learners in selected secondary schools in Luangwa district,Zambia
… of this study was to investigate the social and academic factors that affected access to guidance and counselling services among learners in Luangwa district, Lusaka province, Zambia. Invitational Educational Theory guided this study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The study …
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Predictors of student outcome in a Baccalaureate nursing program
… involves the interaction of student attributes, academic, psychological, social, and environmental factors. Using the Jeffreys’s (2015) Nursing Undergraduate Retention and Success (NURS) Model, the purpose of this research was to determine the individual student profile characteristics, academic …
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Grit and beliefs about intelligence: the relationship and role these factors play in the self-regulatory processes involved in medical students learning gross anatomy
… suggests potential in studying underlying non-academic factors to explain some of these inconsistencies. Thus, this study examined medical students’ implicit theories of intelligence (ITI) and grit in order to better understand student learning outcomes in gross anatomy. Methods: A mixed …
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Academic Profiles of Science Students: An Analysis of Longitudinal Data on Virginia Students
… of how well standardized test scores and other academic metrics reflected progression to a science major, by gender. This exploratory study used longitudinal data from the Virginia Department of Education, prepared by the Virginia Longitudinal Data System, for students who graduated from …
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Predicting First-Year Academic Success of African American and White Students at Predominately White Institutions
… to determine how models utilizing demographic, academic, and social pre-college characteristics are related to first-year academic success of White and African American students at PWIs. The demographic pre-college factors include students& race and gender; the academic factors include ACT …
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Factors that influence the academic performance of students majoring in Licenciatura en Idioma Inglés: Opción Enseñanza and in Licenciatura en Lenguas Modernas especialidad en Frances e Ingles in the main campus of the University Of El Salvador
… principal aim of this study is to describe the factors that influence the academic performance of third-year students majoring in Licenciatura en Idioma Inglés Opción Enseñanza and also in Licenciatura en LenguasModernas Especialidad en Frances e Ingles in Semester II-2012. Researchers planned …
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A Study of Student Involvement Variables in Higher Education: Their Influence on Success on the Uniform CPA Examination
… purpose of this study was to address the various academic factors that are hypothesized to have influenced performance on the CPA exam. This study focused on Ohio candidates who sat for the Financial Accounting and Reporting Standards (FAR) section of the CPA exam.</p><p>This study applied Astin’s …
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A road less traveled: the experiences of black male collegians at a PWI
… of this study was to identify the social and academic factors that contribute to the success of African American male undergraduate students at Predominantly White Institutions. While numerous authors have conducted research on black males in higher education, many seem to focus on those who …
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Exploring First Generation African American Graduate Students: Motivating Factors for Pursuing a Doctoral Degree
… for conducting the study was to examine the factors that motivate African-American first-generation students to pursue doctoral education at a four-year public university. There has been little research on the influence academic or non-academic factors have on first-generation graduate …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND SELECTED ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC VARIABLES
… 2007). Hansen (1998) noted that the overall academic preparation level has declined for students entering college and that academic disengagement in college has increased among many students. The educational background of the parents has been shown to have a significant impact on a student's …
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