Download or read book Persisting on Academic Probation written by Yesenia Castellon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges serve as an accessible educational pathway for nontraditional students to achieve their educational goals. However, while California community colleges provide access to higher education, completion rates remain low. As a response, California passed several policy changes to address low completion rates and directed community colleges to create an infrastructure to increase retention and graduation rates. Yet, policy changes also limited access to financial aid for students on academic probation and further created barriers for these same students. Nonetheless, community colleges must increase retention and completion rates, including for students on academic probation, to fulfill future employment gaps. Review of the literature on student retention and persistence suggests the importance of student integration to the college, yet resources are limited for students on academic probation. Because most of the interaction with the college happens in the classroom, this study intended to explore from the student perspective, how faculty-student interactions influence student persistence for students on academic probation. This qualitative study captured five community college students on or previously on academic probation and their experiences with faculty. Participants were asked in a semi-structured interview, questions around (1) general and formal and informal faculty-student interactions, (2) student expectations, (3) faculty mattering, (4) other resources. Responses were analyzed and themed to identify patterns and draw conclusions. Some conclusions were drawn. 1) Recent policy changes removing financial assistance from students on academic probation may impact student persistence. The impact of these changes have not been documented and further research is needed. 2) Students perceive faculty as important to their academic success but do not use faculty to cope while on academic probation. Thus, faculty-student interaction is not a direct predictor of student persistence. 3) Faculty and student roles and educational norms are engrained; students did not expect faculty to reach out to them rather students felt they needed to reach out to the faculty member. 4) Students were engaged with the institution at some level; caring staff, learning community, student employment or used on-campus resources. 5) Students showed resiliency and took an active role in their academic probation status and persisted. 6) Educational leaders must act in transformational ways by analyzing policy and implementing practices that integrates students to the institution.

Download or read book Retention Among College Students on Academic Probation written by Lizzet Rojas (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Academic probation is a mechanism to identify students that are at higher risk of institutional departure. In order to move the dial on postsecondary student retention, a mixed-methods study was conducted to predict first-time freshmen students’ placement on academic probation, their risk of institutional departure, and factors that support their academic recovery and persistence. In the quantitative analyses, factors predicting academic probation and subsequent institutional departure included student demographic characteristics, pre-entry and post-entry academic indicators, and academic major change. In the qualitative analysis, five main themes emerged: 1) the shock of the college transition; 2) fear and determination during academic probation; 3) the losses and gains of major change; 4) resources and support; and 5) achievement and belonging as a way toward persistence and graduation. The findings suggest opportunities for postsecondary institutions to support students through key transitions as way to facilitate their academic and social integration, sense of belonging, engagement, and persistence.

Download or read book Academic Recovery written by Michael T. Dial and published by The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research suggests that as many as a quarter of all undergraduate students may find themselves on academic probation during their collegiate years. If students on probation choose to return to their institutions the semester following notification, they find themselves in a unique transitional period between poor academic performance and either dismissal or recovery. Effectively supporting students through this transition may help to decrease equity gaps in higher education. As recent literature implies, the same demographic factors that affect students’ retention and persistence rates (e.g., gender, race and ethnicity, age) also affect the rate at which students find themselves on academic probation. This book serves as a resource for practitioners and institutional leaders. The volume presents a variety of interventions and institutional strategies for supporting the developmental and emotional needs of students on probation in the first year and beyond. The chapters in this book are the result of years of dedication and passion for supporting students on probation by the individual chapter authors. While the chapters reflect a culmination of combined decades of personal experiences and education, collectively they amount to the beginning of a conversation long past due. Scholarship on the impact of academic recovery models on student success and persistence is limited. Historically, attention and resources have been directed toward establishing and strengthening the first-year experience, sophomore programs, and student-success efforts to prevent students from ending up on academic probation. However, a focus on preventative measures without a consideration of academic recovery program design considering the successes of these programs is futile. This volume should be of interest to academics and practitioners focused on creating or refining institutional policies and interventions for students on academic probation. The aim is to provide readers with the language, tools, and theoretical points of view to advocate for and to design, reform, and/or execute high-quality, integrated academic recovery programs on campus. Historically, students on probation have been an understudied and underserved population, and this volume serves as a call to action.

Download or read book A Study of Shared Student Characteristics of a Cohort Placed on Academic Probation in Correlation to Their Persistence to Graduation written by Matthew Lavery and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was to create an understanding of students that were placed on academic probation to assess their shared characteristics in relation to their rate of graduation. To do this, the study group selected was a cohort of students from a ten-year time span who were placed on academic probation at a small university in northwest New Jersey. This dissertation uses the seminal works of Spady, Tinto, and Pascarella as a basis to understand which characteristics have the greatest correlation to graduation for those students that persisted. This dissertation assessed Residential Status, Completed Number of Credits when placed on academic probation, and a logistical regression to assess student characteristics overall when considering a significant correlation to graduation. The one characteristic that proved to have the greatest positive correlation to graduation for students on academic probation is the Number of Completed Credits, illustrating that a student is three times more likely to graduate if they can earn enough completed credits to be considered a second-year student. (ProQuest abstract).

Download or read book Pathways to Persistence written by Sarah R. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College is an undertaking that taxes students' physical, intellectual, psychological, and fiscal resources. Not all students who embark on a journey into higher education persist to degree completion. In response to concerns over student attrition, some colleges and universities utilize data analytics to predict potential areas of concern and to prescribe possible interventions before a student begins an academic class. The focus of this investigation was on students identified through predictive analytics as having a propensity to struggle academically, but who successfully remained off of academic probation throughout their first year of full-time enrollment in college. This study explored the perceptions of 13 female students at a small liberal arts college in order to identify curricular, co-curricular, and personal resources that helped them along a pathway to persistence in higher education. Findings indicate that a variety of institutional variables can support academic success in addition to factors of personal resilience, specifically self-care behaviors and spirituality.--Abstract

Download or read book Success Course Intervention for Students on Academic Probation in Science Majors A Longitudinal Quantitative Examination of the Treatment Effects on Performance Persistence and Graduation written by Shelley Marie McGrath and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing external and internal pressure to increase retention and graduation rates in select colleges along with increasing numbers of college-going populations over time, student affairs professionals have responded with a variety of programs to support students' transition to college. This study sought to examine freshman students in science majors went on academic probation at the end of their first semester. If these students did not raise their GPAs quickly, they faced academic dismissal from the institution. Consequently, the institution would not be able to retain them, and ultimately, they would not graduate. Managerial professionals at the institution created, implemented, and evaluated an intervention in the form of a success course for these students to help get them back on track, retain them, and ultimately graduate from the institution. The literatures drawn upon for this study included retention theory, probationary student behaviors and attitudes, interventions, success courses, fear appeal theories, academic capitalism, and institutional isomorphism. The study employed tests including chi-square, logistic regressions, and differences-in-differences fixed effects regressions to identify the differences and effects on performance, persistence, and graduation rates of the treatment and comparison groups. The findings of this study showed significant differences between the persistence and graduation rates of the treatment and control groups, and regression effects showed a short-term causal effect on performance as well as significant likelihoods of persisting and graduating within four or five years. Recommendations for further improvements to interventions are discussed in the final chapter.

Download or read book Increasing Persistence written by Wesley R. Habley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCREASING PERSISTENCE "Of all the books addressing the puzzle of student success and persistence, I found this one to be the most helpful and believe it will be extremely useful to faculty and staff attempting to promote student success. The authors solidly ground their work in empirical research, and do a brilliant job providing both an overview of the relevant literature as well as research-based recommendations for intervention." GAIL HACKETT, PH.D., provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; professor, counseling and educational psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas City Research indicates that approximately forty percent of all college students never earn a degree anywhere, any time in their lives. This fact has not changed since the middle of the 20th century. Written for practitioners and those who lead retention and persistence initiatives at both the institutional and public policy levels, Increasing Persistence offers a compendium on college student persistence that integrates concept, theory, and research with successful practice. It is anchored by the ACT's What Works in Student Retention (WWISR) survey of 1,100 colleges and universities, an important resource that contains insights on the causes of attrition and identifies retention interventions that are most likely to enhance student persistence.?? The authors focus on three essential conditions for student success: students must learn; students must be motivated, committed, engaged, and self-regulating; and students must connect with educational programs consistent with their interests and abilities. The authors offer a detailed discussion of the four interventions that research shows are the most effective for helping students persist and succeed: assessment and course placement, developmental education initiatives, academic advising, and student transition programming. Finally, they urge broadening the current retention construct, providing guidance to policy makers, campus leaders, and individuals on the contributions they can make to student success.

Download or read book A Psychosociocultural Framework of College Persistence Wellness for Students on Academic Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background There is increased need for a college educated workforce that is prepared to enter high-demand, technical fields (e.g., science, technology, engineering, math, medicine). Universities continue to be held accountable for improving student retention and degree completion. This study sought to understand the cognitive and noncognitive barriers to degree persistence for students on academic probation and for racial/ethnic minority students. A psychosociocultural approach to college persistence wellness was used as a framework to investigate the college-going experiences of racial/ethnic minority undergraduates and students on academic probation. Four noncognitive indicators of persistence were hypothesized as predictive of persistence commitments: appraisals of and coping strategies for being on academic probation, social support for college from mentors, comfort in the cultural environments of college, and everyday awareness of and attention to the college environment. Methods A survey-based study was conducted at a large, predominantly white university in the Midwest. Participants were undergraduate college students currently enrolled in the university. Participants completed an online survey, and data was analyzed by academic probation status and by race/ethnicity (i.e., racial/ethnic minority students and non-minority students). Survey data was analyzed via descriptive, correlational, and predictive statistics. Results and Discussion Analysis of the students-on-academic-probation responses indicated that more favorable degree and institution persistence commitments were predicted by the psychosociocultural variable-set and were positively associated with the individual PSC variables: challenge-based stress appraisals, positive perceptions of mentoring, greater comfort in the college environment, and a greater degree of everyday mindful attention and awareness at college. For students on academic probation and racial/ethnic minority students, perceptions of the college environment had the largest unique predictive and correlational relationship with persistence commitments. Conclusion Universities can continue in efforts to enhance the noncognitive aspects of the college-going experiences for students on academic probation and for racial/ethnic minority students. Of unique importance is the need for universities to improve the cultural comfort of the college environment in order to facilitate students' more favorable persistence commitments and well-being during college.

Download or read book The Effects of Academic Probation on College Success written by Jason M. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While nearly all colleges and universities in the United States use academic probation as a means to signal to students a need to improve performance, very little is known about the use of this designation and the programs that accompany it on college success. This paper uses a regression discontinuity approach to estimate the effects of these programs at four universities of varying selectivity in Texas. Results suggest that academic probation status following the first semester of college may serve as a short term "wake up call" to some students, in that second semester performance is improved. However, our findings also suggest that this short term boost in performance fades out over time and students who are on academic probation following their first semesters of college do not have higher rates of persistence or graduation. We also find important differential responses to academic probation based on pre-determined student characteristics as well as high school of origin. However none of the heterogeneous effects are consistent across universities, limiting the application of simple models of education standards.

Download or read book Retention Persistence and Writing Programs written by Todd Ruecker and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs offers perspectives on how writing programs can support or hinder students’ transitions to college. The contributors present individual and program case studies, student surveys, a wealth of institutional retention data, and critical policy analysis. Rates of student retention in higher education are a widely acknowledged problem: although approximately 66 percent of high school graduates begin college, of those who attend public four-year institutions, only about 80 percent return the following year, with 58 percent graduating within six years. At public two-year institutions, only 60 percent of students return, and fewer than a third graduate within three years. Less commonly known is the crucial effect of writing courses on these statistics. First-year writing is a course that virtually all students have to take; thus, writing programs are well-positioned to contribute to larger institutional conversations regarding retention and persistence and should offer themselves as much-needed sites for advocacy, research, and curricular innovation. Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs is a timely resource for writing program administrators as well as for new writing teachers, advisors, administrators, and state boards of education. Contributors: Matthew Bridgewater, ​Cristine Busser, Beth Buyserie, Polina Chemishanova, ​Michael Day, ​Bruce Feinstein, ​Patricia Freitag Ericsson, ​Nathan Garrett, ​Joanne Baird Giordano, ​Tawanda Gipson, ​Sarah E. Harris, Mark Hartlaub, ​Holly Hassel, ​Jennifer Heinert, ​Ashley J. Holmes, ​Rita Malenczyk, ​Christopher P. Parker, ​Cassandra Phillips, ​Anna Plemons, ​Pegeen Reichert Powell, ​Marc Scott, Robin Snead, ​Sarah Elizabeth Snyder, ​Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, ​Susan Wolff Murphy

Download or read book Academic Performance and Persistence Characteristics of Special Admission Minority poor Freshmen and Regular Freshmen at Six California State Colleges written by Robert Oliver Bess and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Academic Probation as an Obstruction written by Agnes Eisaghalian and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic probation is virtually every institution's challenge, but it is the most under-researched policy practiced at most community colleges. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of academic probation transcript labeling on students' retention. Literature on college retention identifies the circumstances that improve retention, which mostly occurs during the first-year experience in college. Therefore, this study aims to study early characteristics of first-year Glendale Community College students on academic probation. Public community colleges have 25 percent of first-time freshmen placed on academic probation. Thus, the purpose of this study is to draw attention to academic probation policy and how that serves the students and the academic record without an intervention. The study examines academic probation students' retention by using logistic regression analysis to estimate the probability of a binary response (retained or not retained) based on students' characteristic predictors (or independent) variables. The data is collected from students' college applications-prior to Fall 2014 application submission of students' attendance which also identifies the freshmen background characteristics. The student data is categorized into those who did and did not persist during the second-year Spring 2016 semester. An analysis is conducted and reported to identify what are the common pre-enrollment background characteristics of those students. The results specify that academic probation is not a statistically significant finding, which indicates that being placed on probation neither helps nor hurts student retention. Another important finding related to retention is students' unit load during each semester. Part-time unit load is significant towards students' retention. Students are most likely to retain if their enrollment status is full-time. With GPA being an important factor in retention, the study indicates that for each single point that a GPA increases, the probability of retention (outcome) is increased by about 14.4 percent. Also, students are 2.6 percent less likely to retain (when holding GPA as a factor). Holding both GPA and probation status constant, older students are less likely to be retained (the probability decreasing by about 1.4 percent with each additional year of age). Armenian and Middle Eastern students are more likely to be retained than White students (the comparison category). The probabilities are about 0.23 and 0.20 for Armenian and Middle Eastern students, respectively. Other important results indicate that remedial course-work is unrelated to retention, and that only the lowest-level remedial course-taking is related (decreases) the probability of retention, and that ESL coursework is related to retention positively. This implies that student language skills are likely to be important in retention and that ESL courses likely formalize the skills required to be successful. If the policy of probation is to support students' academic achievement and ultimately retention and completion of community college, then based on this study's findings, probation does not impact retention in college. As a result, a large number of these students need a support system.

Download or read book Humanizing Higher Education through Innovative Approaches for Teaching and Learning written by Enakshi Sengupta and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative pedagogy is the only solution that can bridge both scarcity and quality in education. This edited collection showcases how innovative approaches to teaching and learning have become the need of the hour in higher education. How might new technologies and a fresh take on curriculum design create a sufficient impact on learners?

Download or read book Ensuring Success for Students Who Transfer written by Heather N. Maietta and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfer students face a unique set of challenges when trying to get acclimated to their new environment. In the current transfer literature, there is an absence of career development in all its forms including career resources, career advising, career coaching/counseling, professional readiness, and job search strategizing. Ensuring Success for Students Who Transfer: The Importance of Career and Professional Development works to fill this void. This publication presents anecdotal and data-driven evidence of career development and professional readiness being infused at various universities to offset the imperceptible career voice in current transfer literature.

Download or read book Increasing Persistence written by Wesley R. Habley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCREASING PERSISTENCE "Of all the books addressing the puzzle of student success and persistence, I found this one to be the most helpful and believe it will be extremely useful to faculty and staff attempting to promote student success. The authors solidly ground their work in empirical research, and do a brilliant job providing both an overview of the relevant literature as well as research-based recommendations for intervention." GAIL HACKETT, PH.D., provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; professor, counseling and educational psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas City Research indicates that approximately forty percent of all college students never earn a degree anywhere, any time in their lives. This fact has not changed since the middle of the 20th century. Written for practitioners and those who lead retention and persistence initiatives at both the institutional and public policy levels, Increasing Persistence offers a compendium on college student persistence that integrates concept, theory, and research with successful practice. It is anchored by the ACT's What Works in Student Retention (WWISR) survey of 1,100 colleges and universities, an important resource that contains insights on the causes of attrition and identifies retention interventions that are most likely to enhance student persistence.?? The authors focus on three essential conditions for student success: students must learn; students must be motivated, committed, engaged, and self-regulating; and students must connect with educational programs consistent with their interests and abilities. The authors offer a detailed discussion of the four interventions that research shows are the most effective for helping students persist and succeed: assessment and course placement, developmental education initiatives, academic advising, and student transition programming. Finally, they urge broadening the current retention construct, providing guidance to policy makers, campus leaders, and individuals on the contributions they can make to student success.

Download or read book A Comparative Study of the Background Data Academic Achievement and the Persistence of Students Electing Business Teacher Education with Those in Other Subject Fields at Wisconsin State College Whitewater written by Leon Paul Hermsen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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