Abstract Evaluation is a crucial part of the teaching and learning process in any higher
education institution and one that has gone through a deep change. This has been …

Most studies on remedial courses are based on their mandatory attendance. However,
changes may have occurred in the attendance policy of developmental math courses since …

Education in a language other than the mother tongue is common. This is increasingly
relevant in tertiary education, due to the growing international mobility of students. While the …

There is a consensus in the literature that mathematical ability contributes to student success
in tertiary education. More importantly, mathematical skills are necessary when successfully …

Studies determining students' success in higher education mostly rely on students'
predetermined baseline variables like high school GPA or ACT scores and, therefore …

This paper proposes a novel approach to investigating the determinants of academic
performance: GPA and time to degree. We match administrative records with questionnaire …

At a large private university, 835 undergraduate students completed a 110-question survey
pertaining to an introduction to marketing class. The explanatory factors included are chosen …

As part of a large-scale survey of over 4000 undergraduates at British universities, 238
economics students reported on their experiences of studying post-compulsory secondary …

The paper explores the shift from course-based to state-wide exit examinations at the end of
upper secondary education in Germany between 2007 and 2011, and whether this resulted …

(1) Background: this study evaluates the most relevant factors affecting the performance in
mathematics of university undergraduates. Precisely, the mathematical background of …