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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"First Generation Students"”.
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Examining the Needs of First-Generation Students
<p>First Generation Students at Columbus State University identify as having a lack of resources that are helpful to them. This research paper analyzes the problems faced by first generation college students at Columbus State University. These needs were assessed using an electronic survey that was …
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Unheard Voices: First Generation Students and the Community College
First generation students are less likely to persist in college than their peers who have grown up in college educated families. This qualitative research study explores the experiences of 38 first generation students enrolled at four different community colleges in Northern and Central Oregon. …
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An Ex-Post Facto Study of First Generation Students
… witnessed an increase in the diversity of students while enrollment in higher education reached approximately 14,000,000. With the matriculation of a wider array of students, higher education realized a need to understand these students better. Researchers began to investigate issues that …
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Predicting Academic Success among First-Year, First Generation Students
… who are at risk in terms of academic success. First generation status denotes one group of students who are at risk in terms of persistence towards a bachelor's degree. The purpose of this study was to examine what factors predict the academic success of first year, full-time first generation …
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Self-Efficacy and First-Generation Students in a Physician Assistant Program
… scores and a final program course grade for first-generation graduate professional college students (FGS) and non-first-generation graduate professional college students (NFGS) in a physician assistant program. In addition, the researcher sought to explore the perceptions of first-generation …
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First in, last out: time-to-degree of first-generation students
… study of factors which affect time-to-degree in first-generation students from a Midwestern research university. Astin’s (1993) Input-Environment-Output (I-E-O) model was utilized to determine the effects of various input and environment variables. Chi-Square tests were performed to find …
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Retaining Online First-Generation Students with Support Services: A Mixed Methods Approach
… competitive and financially viable while some students prefer its flexible schedule and convenience. One student population drawn to online education is first-generation students; however, they often lack the support network and study skills needed to succeed in a primarily asynchronous …
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How First-Generation Students Spend Their Time: Clues to Academic and Social Integration
This study explored the activities in which first-generation students engage that might promote academic and social integration. Additionally, differences in activities by race were examined. Participants included fifteen Caucasian and fifteen Multicultural first-generation, first-year students. …
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African American And First-Generation Students’ Perceptions Of And Experiences With An Academic Cohort
… of the barriers faced by African American and first-generation students which can ultimately affect retention and persistence to graduation. In order to gather this information, interviews and surveys were conducted with students once enrolled in the foundations for academic success track …
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African American And First-Generation Students’ Perceptions Of And Experiences With An Academic Cohort
… of the barriers faced by African American and first-generation students which can ultimately affect retention and persistence to graduation. In order to gather this information, interviews and surveys were conducted with students once enrolled in the foundations for academic success track …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND SELECTED ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC VARIABLES
… to college is open for increasing numbers of students for whom adapting to college may be a great challenge (Kamphoff, Hutson, Amundsen, & Atwood, 2007). Hansen (1998) noted that the overall academic preparation level has declined for students entering college and that academic disengagement …
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The dreams and promises of the university: Narratives of first-generation students in doctoral education
For those who are the first in their family to undertake higher education imaginings about what the university is, and what it may promise, can be of great importance. In the absence of access to university experience via these individuals' parents and sometimes wider social networks, these …
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Latino/a First Generation Students in College: A Mixed Methods Review of Four-Decades of Literature
… methods review of the experiences of Latino/a First Generation students in college. Their experiences were identified through a quantitative component of identifying what had been published pertinent to this demographic and sectioning those publications into one of four decades when they were …
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Caught up in red tape : bureaucratic hassles undermine sense of belonging in college among first generation students
… - among underrepresented and stigmatized students (e.g. first-generation college students). However, previous work focuses on cues relevant to stereotypes or group membership, and that are aversive only to stigmatized students. We hypothesized that even cues that are aversive to all …
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Storying students’ ecologies of belonging: a narrative inquiry into the relationship between ‘first generation’ students and the University
… student body. This study focuses on the First Generation Student (FGS), as reflective of the non-traditional student, who is subject to a negative framing within the educational literary discourse. The research adopts a metaphorical lens to locate the FGS as migrant within the HE …
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Storying students’ ecologies of belonging: a narrative inquiry into the relationship between ‘first generation’ students and the University
… student body. This study focuses on the First Generation Student (FGS), as reflective of the non-traditional student, who is subject to a negative framing within the educational literary discourse. The research adopts a metaphorical lens to locate the FGS as migrant within the HE …
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On the Outside Looking In: A Qualitative Study of Southern Appalachian First-Generation Students' Perceptions of Higher Education.
… designed to investigate Southern Appalachian, first-generation students' expectations of higher education. Research indicates that many first-generation students drop out of college after only 1 semester; however, little research exists concerning the expectations and experiences of …
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