Factors contributing to university dropout: a review

O Lorenzo-Quiles, S Galdón-López… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Dropout is one of the problems that the university education system has to face
every year. The educational community is involved in the reasons for its trajectory as a social …

How does digital competence preserve university students' psychological well-being during the pandemic? An investigation from self-determined theory

X Wang, R Zhang, Z Wang, T Li - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study conceptualized digital competence in line with self-determined theory (SDT) and
investigated how it alongside help-seeking and learning agency collectively preserved …

[HTML][HTML] Credit hours is not enough: Explaining undergraduate perceptions of course workload using LMS records

ZA Pardos, C Borchers, R Yu - The Internet and Higher Education, 2023 - Elsevier
Credit hours traditionally quantify expected instructional time per week in a course, informing
student course selection decisions and contributing to degree requirement satisfaction. In …

Incentivizing full-time enrollment at community colleges: What influences students' decision to take more courses?

L McKinney, AB Burridge, MM Lee… - Community College …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: Students' enrollment intensity during their first academic semester and year are
highly influential in their success and decisions to persist in community college. Limited …

[HTML][HTML] Variables affecting English-medium instruction students' achievement: Results of a multiple regression analysis

S Muttaqin, HH Chuang - International Journal of Educational Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
medium instruction (EMI) is being used more widely for teaching content subjects at
universities in non-English-speaking countries. This study examined the effects of gender …

Experiences of college students with disabilities and mental health disorders: Informing college transition and retention

GL Francis, JM Duke, M Fujita - Psychology in the Schools, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rate of college students with disabilities and co‐occurring mental health disorders
(D/MH) is steadily increasing across the US However, despite available services and …

Insights into undergraduate pathways using course load analytics

C Borchers, ZA Pardos - LAK23: 13th International Learning Analytics …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Course load analytics (CLA) inferred from LMS and enrollment features can offer a more
accurate representation of course workload to students than credit hours and potentially aid …

A Dual-Mode Grade Prediction Architecture for Identifying At-Risk Students

W Qiu, AWH Khong, S Supraja… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Predicting student performance in an academic institution is important for detecting at-risk
students and to administer early intervention strategies. In this article, we develop a new …

The graduation rate myth and the equity gap

MH Stohs, JG Schutte - Journal of Applied Social Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We demonstrate that improving graduation rates does not cause more students to graduate
or increase student success. The underlying presumptions are spurious and misleading, as …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of undergraduate academic programs through data envelopment analysis and time-to-degree estimates at Spanish public universities

M Salas-Velasco - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
This article proposes nonparametric and parametric methods for conducting meaningful
evaluations of academic programs. In particular, it proposes the use of data envelopment …