| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I: Societal and Demographic Factors Underlying First-Year Student Success -- Exploring the role of affordability on first-year student access and persistence / Jamey Rorison, Mamie Voight, Alain Poutré -- Realizing the educational benefits of diversity : a state of perpetual institutional self-correction / Michell J. Chang -- First-generation college student success / Evan Mulfinger, Chen Zuo, Frederick L. Oswald, Alex Casillas -- Part II: Practices That Foster Student Success -- Investigating first-year seminars as a high-impact practice / Jennifer R. Keup, Dallin George Young -- Transforming the "real first-year experience" : the case for and approaches to improving gateway courses / Andrew K. Koch, John N. Gardner -- Strengthening success for students with multiple risk factors / David A. Laude, Lindsey A. Kaschner, Cassandre Giguere Alvarado, Carolyn K. Connerat -- Student engagement and retention / James Cole, Robert Gonyea, Louis Rocconi -- Bloom's 2 sigma problem and data-driven approaches for improving student success / Alfred Essa, Stephen Laster -- Part III: Attitude and Behavior Change Promoting Student Success -- Nudges, norms, navigation : behavioral insights to improve student success / Benjamin Castleman, Katharine Meyer -- Promoting mindset change and student success / Robert S. Feldman, Karan Goel, Arthur Blakemore, Mattityahu Zimbler -- Stereotype threat and stereotype inoculation : barriers that prevent and interventions that promote the success of underrepresented students in the first year of college / Tara C. Dennehy, Jacqueline S. Smith, Chelsea Moore, Nilanjana Dasgupta |
| Summary |
"This book is premised on a very powerful social/educational concern about college retention rates: one-third of first-year students seriously consider leaving college during their first term, and only half of all students who start college ultimately graduate. This book examines the first year of college from a variety of perspectives to paint a comprehensive picture of the intersecting challenges facing today's students and higher education institutions. Technological advances, increases in college attendance costs, and increasing political pressure on colleges to prove their value have changed the landscape of the first year of college, but researchers have identified new approaches to improve student and institutional success that have shown considerable success and promise. In this comprehensive volume, top educational researchers explore topics of student success, persistence, and retention in the first year of college"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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College freshmen -- Case studies
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College dropouts -- Prevention -- Case studies
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Academic achievement -- Case studies
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Academic achievement
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College dropouts -- Prevention
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College freshmen
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Feldman, Robert S. (Robert Stephen), 1947- editor.
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Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, sponsor.
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| ISBN |
9781316821145 |
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1316821145 |
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9781316811764 |
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131681176X |
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