First Things First: Developing Academic Competence in the First Year of College* |
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| Authors: | Robert D Reason Patrick T Terenzini Robert J Domingo |
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| Institution: | (1) Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA;(2) Pennsylvania State University, USA;(3) Center for the Study of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University, 400 Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802-3203, USA |
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| Abstract: | Perhaps two-thirds of the gains students make in knowledge and cognitive skill development occur in the first 2 years of college
(Pascarella, E. T., and Terenzini, P. T. (2005). How college affects students Vol. 2. A third decade of research. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass). A significant proportion of the students entering America’s colleges and universities, however, never make it
to their second year at the institution where they began. This study, part of a national effort to transform how colleges
and universities think about, package, and present their first year of college, is based on data from nearly 6,700 students
and 5,000 faculty members on 30 campuses nationwide. The study identifies the individual, organizational, environmental, programmatic,
and policy factors that individually and collectively shape students’ development of academic competence in their first year
of college.
*Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Institutional Research, June 6, 2005 San Diego, CA. This study was
supported by grants from the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Lumina Foundation for Education to the Policy Center for the
First Year of College, Brevard, NC. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of those
foundations or the Policy Center, and no official endorsement should be inferred. |
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| Keywords: | college students first-year students first-year experience academic competence foundations of excellence college outcomes |
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