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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"continuing generation"”.
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Comparing Factors of Bachelor's Degree Attainment for First and Continuing Generation Students
… at-risk student populations, namely first generation students, who lack a family track record of college completion and have been shown to be less likely to graduate than continuing generation students. To allow for continued access for first generation students, institutions have the …
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Differences Between First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students in Psychological Need Fulfillment, Academic Engagement, and Retention
<p>First-generation college students (FGCS) often struggle to find academic success unlike continuing-generation college students (CGCS) who often obtain higher GPA by the end of the semester. Using self-determination theory (SDT) as a lens, differences between FGCS and CGCS both at the beginning …
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Perceived Barriers to and Supports for Transfer to a STEM Bachelor's Degree Among Continuing-Generation and First-Generation Community College Students
… analyses explored differences between first-generation and continuing-generation student perceptions based on two widely used but contrasting definitions of first-generation college student. The first manuscript addresses differences in student perceptions. First-generation students with no …
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Student perceptions of academic advising and influence on retention : a study of first-semester, first-generation and continuing-generation college students at a liberal arts college
… investigate the relationship of advising styles, generational status, and the influence of advisors on intent to persist. Post-hoc analysis of open-ended responses to students’ persistence decisions provided additional insights for institutional persistence strategies. The research was conducted …
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Trials in transition: examining the role of cognitive load as a factor in first-generation college student achievement
This study explores the relationship between generational status (first-generation versus continuing-generation), sense of navigational capital and belonging at the institution, and persistence to degree completion as mediated by cognitive load. Understanding this relationship can provide insight …
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Factors Influencing Academic Success in First Generation College Students
… experience may be uniquely challenging for first generation college students (FGs); that is, students for whom neither parent has completed a college degree. While previous work has shown lower levels of academic success for first generation college students compared to their continuing generation …
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Resiliency and the successful first-generation community college student: Identifying effective student support services.
… between successful and non-successful first and continuing-generation college students through the use of a survey. For the purposes of this study, first-generation students were those students whose parents have never attended college and continuing-generation college students were those …
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First-Generation College Students: Examining The Perceived Impact Of Roommate Pairings
… university housing, specifically the first-generation college students’ residential experience and its influence on their first-year experience. Conducted at a faith-based, liberal arts university in the southeast, this study captured and shared the stories of its participants and their …
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Studying the Impact of First-Year Seminar Completion on First-Generation Academic Success
… in increasing the academic success of first-generation college students. The study utilized OLS regressions, logit regressions, and predicted probabilities to examine the effects of first-year seminar completion on four elements of academic success of the firstgeneration student population: …
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Influence of generational status and financial stress on academic and career self-efficacy
… who do not have a family member in an older generation who graduated from college may not experience the same degree of efficacy as those students with greater financial resources or a college graduate role model in their families (Horn & Nuñez, 2000; Oliver, Rodriguez, & Mickleson, 1985; …
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Is this university the right place for me? Identity-related processes, university emphasis on selection, and cultural mismatch in understanding the socio-economic gap in education
… disproportionately disadvantage First-Generation (FG) students compared to Continuing-Generation (CG) students. This work extends these findings by proposing that university selection act as a cue for independent cultural norms, which in turn affect FG students’ perceived compatibility …
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SELF-REGULATION AND MATH ATTITUDES: EFFECTS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPMENTAL MATH COURSES
… outcomes based on demographic variables. First generation and part-time college students and students with dependents perceived math as more useful than their counterparts. Continuing generation and part-time students experienced higher levels of math anxiety than first generation and full-time …
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Going all in : an explanatory sequential mixed methods study of the impact of social engagement on the success and sense of belonging of first-generation college students.
First-generation college student success is a matter of significance to college leaders across the United States. According to a recent study, over half of all undergraduate students are first-generation (RTI International, 2019). The problem, however, is that first-generation college students are …
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Voices in the Mountains: A Qualitative Study Exploring Factors Influencing Appalachian High School Students' Engineering Career Goals
… based on whether or not the student was a continuing generation Appalachian (CGA), parent/guardian educational attainment and place of employment, and the location of the high school relative to college resources. This is consistent with previous literature, which points to the importance …