Excessive course dropping is costly to students and institutions. Using longitudinal transcript
data, this study investigated course withdrawal patterns among 5900 students at a large …

Online courses are a growing part of the community college experience, but many students,
particularly minority students or students who are more at-risk, face challenges in passing …

Plenty of studies show that the physical appearance of a person affects a variety of
outcomes in everyday life. However, due to an incomplete theoretical explication and …

Background: Many university departments use students' evaluations of teaching (SET) to
compare and rank courses. However, absenteeism from class is often nonrandom and …

What are the characteristics and behavior of students who perform well in economics
classes? This is an important question for instructors of economics because the answer …

In jüngster Zeit wird diskutiert, monetäre Anreize an studentische
Lehrveranstaltungsevaluationen zu knüpfen. Anhand empirischer Untersuchungen zeigt …

This paper reports experiment results of teaching large classes of introductory economics
with modern learning technology such as MyEconLab or Aplia. This new technology …

The proportion of students dropping out of higher education economics is remarkably high at
approximately 25% and has been constant for years. The results on the entry preconditions …

Using student transcript data from eight institutions over 23‐years, we investigate
enrollments in principles of microeconomics to determine characteristics of successful and …

This study describes course withdrawal behaviors in the Texas public higher education
institutions and examines the predictors of course withdrawal by using statewide …