There Goes the Grading Curve: The Development of the Attitudes toward Non-Traditional Students Scale

Autor:	Melissa L. Smith, Allison B. Bos, David A. Kennedy, Mark A. Whatley, Wendy L. Woods
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Higher education Grading on a curve business.industry Scale (social sciences) Mathematics education Positive statement Variance (accounting) Psychology business Exploratory factor analysis Education
Zdroj:	Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. 4:257-269
ISSN:	1541-4167 1521-0251
Popis:	The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument allowing the assessment of attitudes toward non-traditional students. A non-traditional student is defined as a person for whom going to school is not his or her full-time job. One hundred forty-eight undergraduates completed a 75 item survey assessing their attitudes toward non-traditional students. The data were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis that revealed the presence of two factors. The first factor consisted of primarily positive statements and accounted for 14.9% of the variance. The second factor consisted of negative statements and accounted for 8.97% of the variance. Implications for colleges and universities are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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