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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"First-Year GPA"”.
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Relationship Between Grit, Academic Mindset, First-Year GPA, and Perceptions Related to Persistence for Non-Traditional College Students
… relationships between grit, academic mindset, first-year GPA, and the perceptions of students related to persistence. Braxton and associates’ Revised Theory of Student Departure in Commuter College and Universities served as the theoretical framework for this study. This study was exploratory, …
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Predicting First-Year Academic Success of African American and White Students at Predominately White Institutions
… pre-college characteristics are related to first-year academic success of White and African American students at PWIs. The demographic pre-college factors include students& race and gender; the academic factors include ACT composite score and high school GPA; and the social factors include …
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Analyzing Student Retention: A Study Of The Effect Of Remedial Courses
… students that continued on to their sophomore year after enrollment in a freshman developmental course compared to students that were not enrolled in a developmental course. The population consisted of first time undergraduate freshmen (N=245) at a small Jesuit university in New Jersey.|It was …
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An Examination of the Predictive Validity of National Survey of Student Engagement Benchmarks and Scalelets
… scalelets) and student outcomes, specifically first-year college GPA and third semester retention status. Linear and logistic regressions were used to evaluate the relationships, controlling for high school GPA, gender, and race/ethnicity. The subscales were minimally predictive of first-year …
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The Relationship Between Participation in a Student Success Course and the Retention Rate and Academic Success of First-Year Freshmen at a Historically Black University
… are minority students (students of color), first-generation college students, students from low-socioeconomic status, students experiencing financial challenges, and those who enter college academically underprepared. Furthermore, studies have found a significant gap in the educational …
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Assessing the impact of first-year experience courses on student success in Community and Technical Colleges
<p>This study examined the impact first-year experience courses have on first-year student performance when enrolled in these courses at public community and technical colleges in Kentucky. The target population for this research study was composed of freshman students participating in the course …
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Bridge to Student Success?: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the University of Mississippi's JumpStart Summer Bridge Program
… impact on student success outcomes, including GPA, institutional retention, and degree completion, to establish concrete actionable data for program staff and university administrators. Data was retrieved from the Office of Institutional Research Effectiveness and Planning (IREP), the Office of …
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Meta-Analysis of the Predictive Validity of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) Scores for College GPA
… and ACT scores for predicting college students' first year GPA scores with a meta-analytic approach. Most of the studies were retrieved from Academic Search Complete and ERIC databases, published between 1990 and 2016. In total, 60 effect sizes were obtained from 48 studies. The average …
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Predicting first-year college achievement : evaluation of a self-regulatory coping model
The current trends observed in 4-year college graduation and retention rates (ACT 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; Tinto, 2006) demonstrate a need for improvement in student academic achievement outcomes. Overwhelmingly, research finds that the first year in college is the time of greatest risk for student …
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Skill, Will, and Self-Regulation: Assessing the Learning and Study Strategies of University Summer Bridge Program Students
… program for academically underprepared, at-risk, first-year students (as defined by the university). The relationships between SBP students' learning and study strategies and two measures of college achievement (first-year GPA and first-to-second-year persistence) were investigated using a …
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Longitudinal Trends in Academic Success: The Impact of IELTS and EAP Program Outcomes on International Student Performance
… a cross-sectional approach, focussing on the first one or two years of study. There is a dearth of research on the longitudinal relationship of language test scores, EAP program outcomes, and academic performance, and the present study examined this relationship over the course of a 4-year …
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Does IEB make the grade? Alternative testing methods and educational outcomes: The case of the IEB in South Africa
… and challenges faced during their university years than are those students who wrote the Department of Basic Education (DBE) exams. Although the underlying curriculum is no different, the IEB exam is thought to be more challenging and to encourage more critical thinking and deeper engagement …