College Students and Academic Performance: A Case of Taking Control
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College students face a myriad of pressures and challenges in the academic environment as they seek to maintain optimal performance or even to remain in the academic program. In 2002, it was reported that more than 30% of first-year students did not return for their second year of college (Smith), and only 40% are reported to actually compete their degree and graduate (Newby, 2002). This information suggests that either due to problems with integration or other difficulties encountered in the social or academic culture of the institution, a significant proportion of college students fail to attain an acceptable level of academic achievement and ultimately withdraw (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991). The better we understand the factors that contribute to academic success, the greater the potential for positive and timely intervention to
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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- Understanding Retention and College Student Bodies: Differences Between Drop-Outs, Stop-Outs, Opt-Outs, and Transfer-Outs
- Pushing the Boulder Uphill: The Persistence of First-Generation College Students
- The Extent to Which Four-Year College Presidents who Previously Served as Senior Student Affairs Officers Report Having the Characteristics of Effective Presidents
- The Importance of Drawing Meaningful Conclusions from Data: A Review of the Literature with Meta-Analytic Inquiry
- Graduate Student Orientation Practices: Results from a National Survey
- Campus-Based Women's Centers: Administration, Structure, and Resources
- The Contemporary Student Center: Challenges at Metropolitan Universities
- Tracing "Friendsickness" During the First Year of College Through Journal Writing: A Qualitative Study
- In Their Own Voices: Latino Student Retention
- College Students and Academic Performance: A Case of Taking Control
- Letter from the Editors
- Table of Contents
- NASPA Journal, Spring 2004, Voume 41, Number 3
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Understanding Retention and College Student Bodies: Differences Between Drop-Outs, Stop-Outs, Opt-Outs, and Transfer-Outs
- Pushing the Boulder Uphill: The Persistence of First-Generation College Students
- The Extent to Which Four-Year College Presidents who Previously Served as Senior Student Affairs Officers Report Having the Characteristics of Effective Presidents
- The Importance of Drawing Meaningful Conclusions from Data: A Review of the Literature with Meta-Analytic Inquiry
- Graduate Student Orientation Practices: Results from a National Survey
- Campus-Based Women's Centers: Administration, Structure, and Resources
- The Contemporary Student Center: Challenges at Metropolitan Universities
- Tracing "Friendsickness" During the First Year of College Through Journal Writing: A Qualitative Study
- In Their Own Voices: Latino Student Retention
- College Students and Academic Performance: A Case of Taking Control
- Letter from the Editors
- Table of Contents
- NASPA Journal, Spring 2004, Voume 41, Number 3
