Do Nondomestic Undergraduates Choose a Major Field in Order to Maximize Grade Point Averages?

Autor/inn/en	Bergman, Matthew E.; Fass-Holmes, Barry
Titel	Do Nondomestic Undergraduates Choose a Major Field in Order to Maximize Grade Point Averages?
Quelle	In: Journal of International Students, 6 (2016) 1, S.308-313 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2162-3104
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Majors (Students); Grade Point Average; Multiple Regression Analysis; Hierarchical Linear Modeling; Foreign Students; Writing Instruction; Engineering Education; Economics Education; Science Education; Effect Size; Predictor Variables; Academic Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibunterricht; Ingenieurausbildung; Wirtschaftskunde; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Prädiktor; Schulleistung
Abstract	The authors investigated whether undergraduates attending an American West Coast public university who were not U.S. citizens (nondomestic) maximized their grade point averages (GPA) through their choice of major field. Multiple regression hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that major field's effect size was small for these undergraduates' academic marks in mandatory English writing classes and for their term GPAs in the five most recent academic years. Engineering and economics, but not science, were significant predictors of writing marks. Economics, but not engineering or science, was a significant predictor of GPAs. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01