Age as a Predictor of Student Success in Community College Technical Certificate Programs
ABSTRACTThis study was initiated to help determine if there was an associated probability between a student’s age relative to persistence and retention leading to the completion of a Technical Cert...
Purpose – This paper aims to study the scholarly communication of educational psychology by exploring its intellectual structure and general journal citation patterns.Design/methodology/approach – Journal citation data were collected from Journal Citation Reports for 2004‐2005. The structure of the subject relatedness of the journals was created through a cluster analysis using the cosine as its measure. The general citation patterns were discussed in terms of cited and citing frequencies and related ratios.Findings – Six clusters of journals were identified, including general educational psychology/learning/literacy, school psychology, measurement and counseling, Germany‐based educational psychology, creativity, and the other. The following general citation patterns emerged in the study: a small number of journals accounted for a relatively high percentage of the intra‐disciplinary citations; the majority of the selected journals cited more than being cited in the field; the major general educational psy...