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Direct linkSullivan, Colleen Janette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
First-year students experience academic, social, and emotional adjustments as they transition to college. First-year experience courses support students in this transitional phase by helping them integrate into the campus environment and by teaching them college-appropriate learning strategies. This study explored the role that participation in a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Seminars, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy
Download full textMicceri, Ted; Wajeeh, Emad – 1999
Two studies evaluated outcomes of a University Experience (freshman seminar) course to ease the transition to college and enhance student retention at the University of South Florida. In the first study, course evaluations of "typical" USF students (N=540) who completed the course in fall 1998 were overwhelmingly positive in support of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Dropout Prevention
Peer reviewedBoudreau, Charles A.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D. – Journal of College Student Development, 1994
Examines the relationship between completion of a freshman orientation course at the University of South Florida and retention (enrollment during a subsequent semester following completion of the course), academic performance, and graduation. Findings show that course participants performed better on measures of retention and academic performance,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedDavis-Underwood, Mildred; Lee, JoAnn – Journal of College Student Development, 1994
To increase students' academic success and retention rates, colleges and universities are increasingly implementing seminars that will equip students with academic survival skills such as note-taking and doing library research. UNCC's program was found to be effective, and possibilities for further investigation were offered. (BF)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedGlass, J. Conrad, Jr.; Garrett, Matthew S. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1995
Describes a study conducted at four North Carolina community colleges of the relationship between completion of an orientation by new students, higher retention, and grade point averages. Indicates that completing an orientation course during the first term of enrollment promotes and improves student performance regardless of age, gender, race,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Counseling, Grade Point Average, Outcomes of Education
Keenan, Kathleen; Gabovitch, Rhonda – 1995
A longitudinal study was undertaken to assess the effect of a one-credit, 8-week freshman seminar on student development and retention. The study sought to measure student outcomes related to knowledge of college resources and services, utilization of academic support services, increases in self-assessed learning skills, increases in students'…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Career Planning, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
