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The Relationship Between First Year Student Expectations And Persistence Into The Second Year Of College, Ashley Baltuch Dees
The Relationship Between First Year Student Expectations And Persistence Into The Second Year Of College, Ashley Baltuch Dees
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Incoming first year students have varying expectations for their college experience. As Florida public education budgets are more closely aligned with student persistence and graduation rates, it is vital institutions retain more first time in college students. The purpose of this study was to better understand how first year student college expectations on academic preparation, co-curricular involvement, socializing, and institutional commitment relate to persistence into the second year of college at one of Florida’s large, preeminent public research universities.
This quantitative study utilized the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE) in order to better understand incoming student expectations. The …
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 …