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Overview

Steven B. Robbins is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within social sciences and engineering, with an emphasis on education and technology integration.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering

More specifically, their subfields of study cover:

  • Education
  • Media Technology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Architecture
  • Social Psychology

The core topics explored in their publications consist of:

  • Engineering Education and Curriculum Development
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Engineering Education and Pedagogy
  • School Choice and Performance

Robbins has authored several recent papers, notable among them are:

  • "Career and Technical Education as a Conduit for Skilled Technical Careers: A Targeted Research Review and Framework for Future Research" (2021, ETS Research Report Series)
  • "The Road to Retention Passes through First Year Academic Performance: A Meta-Analytic Path Analysis of Academic Performance and Persistence" (2020, Educational Assessment)
  • "Improving Workforce Readiness Skills Among Community College Adult Learners Through New Technologies" (2021, Metropolitan Universities)
  • "Investigating the Relationship Between Career and Technical Education High School Course-Taking and Early Job Outcomes" (2022, ETS Research Report Series)
  • "AI-based mapping from MRI to MR thermometry for MR-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy using a conditional generative adversarial network" (2024, Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition)

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Robbins include:

  • Sara Haviland
  • Vinetha Belur
  • Gernissia Cherfrere
  • David M. Klieger
  • Paul Westrick

The venues where Robbins frequently publishes are:

  • ETS Research Report Series
  • Metropolitan Universities
  • Educational Assessment
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition

Best Publications

  • Do Psychosocial and Study Skill Factors Predict College Outcomes? A Meta-Analysis.

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  • Measuring belongingness: The Social Connectedness and the Social Assurance scales.

    Richard M. Lee;Steven B. Robbins

  • The relationship between social connectedness and anxiety, self-esteem, and social identity.

    Richard M. Lee;Steven B. Robbins

  • Third-year College Retention and Transfer: Effects of Academic Performance, Motivation, and Social Connectedness

    Jeff Allen;Steven B. Robbins;Alex Casillas;In-Sue Oh

  • Too much of a good thing: curvilinear relationships between personality traits and job performance.

    Huy Le;In Sue Oh;Steven B. Robbins;Remus Ilies

  • Unraveling the Differential Effects of Motivational and Skills, Social, and Self-Management Measures from Traditional Predictors of College Outcomes.

    Steven B. Robbins;Jeff Allen;Alex Casillas;Christina Hamme Peterson

  • The role of academic and non-academic factors in improving college retention: ACT policy report

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  • Understanding Social Connectedness in College Women and Men

    Richard M. Lee;Steven B. Robbins

  • College Performance and Retention: A Meta-Analysis of the Predictive Validities of ACT® Scores, High School Grades, and SES

    Paul A. Westrick;Huy Le;Steven B. Robbins;Justine M. R. Radunzel

  • Intervention effects on college performance and retention as mediated by motivational, emotional, and social control factors: integrated meta-analytic path analyses

    Steven B. Robbins;In Sue Oh;Huy Le;Christopher Button

  • The interest-major congruence and college success relation: A longitudinal study

    Terence J.G. Tracey;Steven B. Robbins

  • Prediction of College Major Persistence Based on Vocational Interests, Academic Preparation, and First-Year Academic Performance

    Jeff Allen;Steven B. Robbins

  • Motivational and Skills, Social, and Self-Management Predictors of College Outcomes: Constructing the Student Readiness Inventory.

    Huy Le;Alex Casillas;Steven B. Robbins;Ronelle Langley

  • Development and validation of the Career Factors Inventory.

    Judy M. Chartrand;Steven B. Robbins;Weston H. Morrill;Kathleen Boggs

  • Self-psychology and career development: Construction of the Superiority and Goal Instability scales.

    Steven B. Robbins;Michael J. Patton

  • Validity Estimates for the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale.

    Steven B. Robbins

  • Stability and change in interests: A longitudinal study of adolescents from grades 8 through 12

    Terence J.G. Tracey;Steven B. Robbins;Christy D. Hofsess

  • Managing countertransference feelings: An interactional model using awareness of feeling and theoretical framework.

    Steven B. Robbins;Michael P. Jolkovski

  • Advances in theory and research on subjective well-being.

    Steven B. Robbins;Wendy L. Kliewer

  • Goal continuity as a mediator of early retirement adjustment: testing a multidimensional model

    Steven B. Robbins;Richard M. Lee;Thomas T. H. Wan

  • Interactions between Goal Instability and Social Support on College Freshman Adjustment.

    Steven B. Robbins;Karen P. Lese;Stephen M. Herrick

  • Perceptions of Client Needs and Counseling Center Staff Roles and Functions.

    Steven B. Robbins;Therese M. May;John G. Corazzini

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Lee
Richard M. Lee University of Minnesota
In-Sue Oh
In-Sue Oh Temple University
Chad H. Van Iddekinge
Chad H. Van Iddekinge Florida State University
Philip L. Roth
Philip L. Roth Clemson University
Remus Ilies
Remus Ilies National University of Singapore
Frank L. Schmidt
Frank L. Schmidt University of Iowa
William T. Hoyt
William T. Hoyt University of Wisconsin–Madison
Terence J. G. Tracey
Terence J. G. Tracey Arizona State University
Wendy Kliewer
Wendy Kliewer Virginia Commonwealth University

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