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Assessing The Relationship Between Student Involvement And Academic Performance In Higher Education, Azurdee M. Garland Aug 2010

Assessing The Relationship Between Student Involvement And Academic Performance In Higher Education, Azurdee M. Garland

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The study examined the relationship between the degree of involvement in co-curricular activities and academic performance, as measured by Grade Point Average (GPA) among college students enrolled at Western Kentucky University (WKU). Three hundred thirty-six sophomores were surveyed via TOPNET, an electronic registration management system, regarding their level of involvement in campus organizations and other factors, including employment status and gender. The cumulative GPAs and the number of credit hours in which the survey participants were enrolled during Fall Semester 2005 were obtained through a survey using TOPNET. Pearson product-moment correlations revealed statistically significant relationships between GPA and the number …