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Exploring Support Seeking Behaviours Of First-Year Students To Predict Academic Performance, Easha Faisal
Exploring Support Seeking Behaviours Of First-Year Students To Predict Academic Performance, Easha Faisal
Brescia Psychology Undergraduate Honours Theses
Academic performance during first year is critical in determining student retention rates, later undergraduate performance, and career related prospects. Previous literature has assessed importance of predictors individually. This study combined predictors to develop a model to predict academic performance of first-year students (n = 90) based on motivated learning strategies and on-campus resource use. An online survey was created to evaluate students’ help-seeking (HS), peer learning (PL), self-efficacy (SE), perceived social support (PSS) and access to social support (SSA) and academic support (ASA) resources. Consistent with previous research, SE was the strongest predictor of academic performance. Additionally, HS, SE, ASA, …