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Book Psychosocial Factors and Academic Performance

Download or read book Psychosocial Factors and Academic Performance written by Amber Carmen Arroyo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-generation college students experience a disproportionate rate of challenges on college campuses, reflected by lower academic performance (AP). Research has identified psychosocial factors associated with AP: academic self-efficacy, optimism, goal orientation, and academic stress. However, this research has mostly been done on continuing-generation college students, and results may not generalize to first-generation students. We investigated whether established factors associated with AP hold the same relationships for first- and continuing-generation college students. A sample of 143 undergraduate students at a designated Hispanic-serving institution self-reported on several psychosocial factors that were used to predict midterm exam grade as an indicator of AP. We did not find the same association between AP and many of the psychosocial factors commonly identified in the literature. Further, we did not find a significant difference in AP among first- and continuing-generation students. However, there were other notable differences between these groups. None of the psychosocial factors held an independent relationship with AP for first-generation students, while for continuing-generation students, mastery-approach, performance-approach, and academic behavioral stress all significantly predicted AP. Overall, psychosocial factors explained a very small portion of the variance in AP among first-generation students (13.4%) while it explained considerably more for continuing-generation students (60.5%). Our findings suggest that none of the psychosocial factors included in the current study are effective pathways to improving AP among first-generation students. Our findings highlight that we do not understand first-generation students' AP and we suggest future research aim to identify new factors that may influence first-generation students' AP.

Book Academically Adrift

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Arum
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-01-15
  • ISBN : 0226028577
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Academically Adrift written by Richard Arum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on survey responses, transcript data, and, for the first time, the state-of-the-art Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test administered to students in their first semester and then again at the end of their second year. According to their analysis of more than 2,300 undergraduates at twenty-four institutions, 45 percent of these students demonstrate no significant improvement in a range of skills—including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing—during their first two years of college. As troubling as their findings are, Arum and Roksa argue that for many faculty and administrators they will come as no surprise—instead, they are the expected result of a student body distracted by socializing or working and an institutional culture that puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list. Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons for students, faculty, administrators, policy makers, and parents—all of whom are implicated in promoting or at least ignoring contemporary campus culture. Higher education faces crises on a number of fronts, but Arum and Roksa’s report that colleges are failing at their most basic mission will demand the attention of us all.

Book Relation of Selected Social and Psychological Factors to Academic Achievement of Students in the School of Agriculture  Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas

Download or read book Relation of Selected Social and Psychological Factors to Academic Achievement of Students in the School of Agriculture Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas written by John Raney Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship of Psychosocial Factors and Academic Success

Download or read book The Relationship of Psychosocial Factors and Academic Success written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leaving College

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  • Author : Vincent Tinto
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-04-27
  • ISBN : 0226922464
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Leaving College written by Vincent Tinto and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1994 classic work on student retention, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, Tinto demonstrates, is in a strong commitment to quality education and the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and social community on campus. He applies his theory of student departure to the experiences of minority, adult, and graduate students, and to the situation facing commuting institutions and two-year colleges. Especially critical to Tinto’s model is the central importance of the classroom experience and the role of multiple college communities.

Book Your College Freshmen

Download or read book Your College Freshmen written by Donald P. Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1963-05 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations and monographs in microform.

Book Building Your Career in Psychology

Download or read book Building Your Career in Psychology written by Marie S. Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Your Career in Psychology is a new practical, aspirational, and experiential book designed to help readers make informed decisions about their college, career, and life success. The primary theme in this book is that psychological knowledge makes a difference in people’s lives. Building on this theme, this book provides an empowered process for making the most of college and other career preparation experience, helping the reader to set the stage for academic, career, and life success. This book emphasizes academic skills, unwritten rules, career planning, and developing relationships – both professional and personal. Moreover, this book includes evidence-based career development content and exercises, as well as other resources to assist readers in discovering their own path to a meaningful career and life. Highlights of this book include: Discussion of career options at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels Forms, handouts, and exercises (both basic and advanced) to facilitate deeper processing and application of content References and resources for further information Website with additional information, including instructor resources Recognition and respect for the diversity of people, their experiences, and paths Featuring the best practices in facilitating career decision-making and planning, this book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in psychology courses as well as anyone interested in a career in psychology.

Book Pre college Psychosocial Factors

Download or read book Pre college Psychosocial Factors written by Donna C. Lang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assessing Students on the Way to College

Download or read book Assessing Students on the Way to College written by American College Testing Program. Research and Development Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Doctoral Dissertations

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Student Success in Athletic Training Students

Download or read book The Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Student Success in Athletic Training Students written by Brittany A. Clason (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of the Relationship of Selected Factors to the Academic Achievement of College Freshmen in the School of Education of Tuskegee Institute

Download or read book A Study of the Relationship of Selected Factors to the Academic Achievement of College Freshmen in the School of Education of Tuskegee Institute written by Anaise Victorianne Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Factors That Contribute to Success in College Freshmen with Specific Learning Disabilities

Download or read book The Factors That Contribute to Success in College Freshmen with Specific Learning Disabilities written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once students graduate from high school and enter postsecondary education the academic support services change. This study uses a qualitative methodology to investigate the perceptions of students' with specific learning disabilities (SLD), particularly the students' perceptions of student motivation, success, and psychosocial factors such as self-efficacy, self-advocacy, and the stigmas related to having an SLD in an effort to identify the factors that impact success in college students who have specific learning disabilities. The researcher will interview students with a SLD regarding the length of time their disability has been identified, the accommodations previously accessed in the secondary educational setting compared to current college accommodations, student motivation, success, current student support systems skills, other psychosocial factors, and any barriers that students may perceive they face."--Leaf 3.

Book Research in Education

Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: