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Predicting First-Year Academic Success Of African American And White Students At Predominately White Institutions, Jerel Benton
Predicting First-Year Academic Success Of African American And White Students At Predominately White Institutions, Jerel Benton
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The purpose of this study is to determine how models utilizing demographic, academic, and social pre-college characteristics are related to first-year academic success of White and African American students at PWIs. The demographic pre-college factors include students& race and gender; the academic factors include ACT composite score and high school GPA; and the social factors include the distance from home, percent of African American in students& high school, and parents& highest education level. First-year academic success is defined by the three dependent variables: first-year retention, first-year GPA, and first-year credit hour completion percentage. The results of the study showed that …