Open AccessDo Nondomestic Undergraduates Choose a Major Field In Order to Maximize Grade Point Averages?
Author(s) -
Matthew E. Bergman,
Barry Fass-Holmes
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2166-3750
pISSN - 2162-3104
DOI - 10.32674/jis.v6i1.571
Subject(s) - multilevel model , field (mathematics) , mathematics education , field experiment , point (geometry) , public university , psychology , demography , statistics , mathematics , sociology , political science , geometry , public administration , pure mathematics
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 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.