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- Title
Transfer Student Success: Educationally Purposeful Activities Predictive of Undergraduate GPA.
- Authors
Fauria, Renee M.; Fuller, Matthew B.
- Abstract
Researchers evaluated the effects of Educationally Purposeful Activities (EPAs) on transfer and nontransfer students' cumulative GPAs. Hierarchical, linear, and multiple regression models yielded seven statistically signifcant educationally purposeful items that infuenced undergraduate student GPAs. Statistically signifcant positive EPAs for transfer students were: (a) receiving prompt written or oral feedback from faculty on academic performance, (b) tutoring or teaching other students (paid or voluntary), (c) asking questions in class or contributing to class discussions, and (d) working harder than they thought they could to meet an instructor's standards or expectations. A negative statistically signifcant activity of transfer students was having serious conversations with students of a race different from their own. Overall, the effects of EPAs on undergraduate GPAs are somewhat more robust for transfer students. A recommendation to incorporate specifc EPAs in transfer students' curriculum followed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TRANSFER students; UNDERGRADUATES; GRADE point average; HIGHER education; COMMUNITY colleges
- Publication
Research & Practice in Assessment, 2015, Vol 10, p39
- ISSN
2161-4210
- Publication type
Article