Bridge Programs
A survey consisting of questions regarding student background information. On the survey participants report gender, age, ethnicity, and whether they were first generation college students.
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What is the Personal Data Questionnaire?
Recognizing and understanding your feelings, which can help improve your relationships and overall well being.
What is managing emotions?
The incentive to undertake an activity based on the expected enjoyment of the activity itself, rather than external benefits that might result.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Evidence supports the fact that study skills courses for first time freshman can have a lasting impact and significantly increase the students overall grade point average.
What is a cumulative GPA?
The ability of an educational institution to keep students enrolled from one term or year to the next until they graduate.
What is retention?
A six week summer academic program prior to admission as regular students in the freshman year to prepare students for the academic and social demands of college life.
What is a Skills Learning Support Program?
Managing stress by using strategies that can help you change your mindset, making it easier to think things through in a positive direction.
What are thoughts?
An individual's perceptions and attitudes about their ability to perform a task and the value they place on that task, which influences their effort and persistence.
What are motivational beliefs?
Individuals whose parents or guardians did not complete a bachelor's degree. These students often face unique challenges in navigating higher education.
What are First Generation College Students?
A cooperative learning strategy that involves students helping each other learn and grow in various subjects or concepts.
What is a peer tutor?
A research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables such as students, over extended periods of time. ie: (from freshman year to graduation)
What are Longitudinal Studies?
The strategic use, allocation, and optimization of sources to accomplish personal goals efficiently and successfully.
What is Resource management?
The strategic use, allocation, and optimization of sources to accomplish personal goals efficiently and successfully.
What is resource management?
The process by which students proactively manage their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions to achieve academic goals. this includes strategies like time management, goal setting, and seeking help.
What is self regulation?
An intervention program designed to provide academic, counseling, and financial support to entering first generation college student, aiming to improve their self regulation, motivation, and academic achievement.
A paired t test was used to predict that the changes in freshmen students enrolled in an intervention program would show higher levels of motivation and self-regulation from the beginning to the end of the freshmen year.
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What are pre-test and post test scores?
A delay in an intended course of action, a self regulation failure hindering growth and well being.
What is procrastination?
A self-report instrument consisting of 81 items using a 7 point Likert scale(not at all true of me to very true of me). Subscales assessed students motivational beliefs such as intrinsic motivation , task value, self-efficacy and learning performance.
What is the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire?
The extent to which a student has attained their short or long term educational goals, often measured by grades, GPA, or completion rates.
What is Academic Achievement?
A period before the start of an academic year at a university. A variety of events are held to orient and welcome new students during this period of transition from home to college.
The findings of this study suggest that the present support program had a positive impact on students' academic self-regulation development, motivational beliefs, and academic outcomes.
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What are the results of a Skills Learning Support Program on First Generation College Students', Self-Regulation, Motivation, and Academic Achievement?
A set of cognitive and metacognitive skills and strategies supporting goal directed behavior.
What is self-regulation?
The process whereby goal-directed behaviors are initiated and sustained.
What is a motivational belief system?
There is evidence to suggest that study skills courses for first time freshman students can have a lasting impact for at risk students to increase their GPA. These are tools students use to get a job done as efficiently as possible. These skills include use of agendas, use of study notes, time management, breaking down information into understandable chunks, summarize information, highlight text, keep all homework organized and due dates together.
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What are study skills?
Contrariwise, intervention students reported an increase in anxiety and performance avoidance. These findings show research evidence indicating that entering freshman have more positive expectations of college than they actually experience.
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What are unrealistic expectations about college and college life?