Academic engagement and student success: Do high-impact practices mean higher graduation rates?

SR Johnson, FK Stage - The Journal of Higher Education, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined the relationship between 10 high-impact practices and graduation
rates at four-year public colleges and universities in the United States. The Association of …

Perceived academic control and academic emotions predict undergraduate university student success: Examining effects on dropout intention and achievement

L Respondek, T Seufert, R Stupnisky… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The present study addressed concerns over the high risk of university students' academic
failure. It examined how perceived academic control and academic emotions predict …

Measuring the impact of a university first-year experience program on student GPA and retention

E Jamelske - Higher Education, 2009 - Springer
In 1997 a medium-size Midwestern public university in the US initiated a first year
experience program. The program is designed to infuse added curricular and extracurricular …

Bridging the gap: Supporting student transitions into higher education

M Leese - Journal of further and Higher Education, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This research focused on the early experience of students entering an undergraduate
course in a post‐1992 university that is committed to widening participation. Using …

A head start in higher education: the effect of a transition intervention on interaction, sense of belonging, and academic performance

SGA Van Herpen, M Meeuwisse… - Studies in Higher …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Given the challenging transition from secondary school into higher education, this quasi-
experimental study measured the effects of a pre-academic programme (ie before starting at …

The experience of adolescents who transitioned to college during the pandemic

JE Jessup-Anger - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the college transition process and first year college
experience for several cohorts of students. This review addresses research related to the …

The influence of institutional retention climates on student persistence to degree completion: A multilevel approach

L Oseguera, BS Rhee - Research in higher education, 2009 - Springer
Using multi-institutional data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's (CIRP)
annual survey of entering freshmen, the Higher Education Research Institute's (HERI) …

[PDF][PDF] First-year seminars increase persistence and retention

K Goodman, E Pascarella - Peer Review, 2006 - Citeseer
While statistical significance tells us that it is unlikely these results would be found by
chance, effect size can be a more useful indicator because it measures the magnitude of a …

Graduate school choice: An examination of individual and institutional effects

D English, PD Umbach - The Review of Higher Education, 2016 - muse.jhu.edu
Abstract Using the 2000/01 Baccalaureate & Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B: 00/01), this
paper employs multilevel modeling to test a conceptual model of graduate school choice …

The effects of faculty demographic characteristics and disciplinary context on dimensions of job satisfaction

TA Seifert, PD Umbach - Research in Higher education, 2008 - Springer
This study applies Kalleberg's framework to better understand the effects of diverse
demographic faculty characteristics on dimensions of job satisfaction. We also extend his …