The Effects of Background, Coursework, and Involvement on Student's Grades and Satisfaction. AIR 1990 Annual Forum Paper.

Autor/in	Pike, Gary R.
Titel	The Effects of Background, Coursework, and Involvement on Student's Grades and Satisfaction. AIR 1990 Annual Forum Paper.
Quelle	(1990), (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Background; College Seniors; Evaluation Methods; Grades (Scholastic); Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; Relationship; Satisfaction; State Universities; Student Participation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Hintergrundinformation; College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Notenspiegel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Wechselbeziehung; Zufriedenheit; Staatliche Universität; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung
Abstract	An examination was made of the relationship between grades and satisfaction from three distinct research viewpoints: (1) how satisfaction influences grades (as opposed to other research studying the reciprocal of grades influencing satisfaction); (2) the satisfaction of graduating seniors (rather than focusing on freshmen and sophomores); and (3) the hypothesis that grades and satisfaction are latent constructs rather than as directly measured variables. Subjects were 1,267 seniors at the hypothesis that grades and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Study results indicated that satisfaction exerted a stronger influence on grades than grades did on satisfaction. More research was determined to be needed on seniors to assess the effects of involvement and coursework on students' educational outcomes. The research also supported the use of latent variable and nonrecursive models and the analyses of covariance structures because it forced researchers to think theoretically rather than enter variables in a regression equation. Contains 38 references. (GLR)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC