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First-Year Seminars And Student Expectations: A Correlational Study Of Retention And Success, Cynthia Edwards
First-Year Seminars And Student Expectations: A Correlational Study Of Retention And Success, Cynthia Edwards
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Performance-based funding is becoming the norm in higher education. High-impact practices like first-year seminars hold promise for improving some of the key metrics in the funding model, such as first-year retention rate and first-year institutional GPA.
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of retention rate and institutional GPA between first-time-in-college (FTIC) students who completed a first-year seminar and those who did not. Additional data regarding pre-college experiences and expectations for college were investigated to gain insight into retention and academic success behaviors of FTIC students. Three years of data including institutional Beginning College Survey of Student …