Challenging and Supporting the First-Year Student: A Handbook for Improving the First Year of College.

By M. L. Upcraft, John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot. 2004

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Perceived Social Support and Well Being: First-Year Student Experience in University. (2014, background): “262 improve student experience, and the ways in which the quality of learning experience are concerned about and can be improved are fundamental research topics by scholars across the USA (e.g. Kuh et al., 2008; Upcraft et al., 2005; Terenzini et al., 1996), the UK (e.”
Stepping Stones to a Degree: The Impact of Enrollment Pathways and Milestones on Community College Student Outcomes (2007, background): “This is the premise of the “first year in college experience” movement that grew out of a first-year seminar at the University of South Carolina in the early 1970s and has since spawned programs at numerous two- and four-year colleges across the country and a raft of publications and conferences foc”
Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates Through a STEM Learning Community (2016, background): “These findings support previous research on the impact of learning communities on student retention (Dagley-Falls, 2009; Gabelnick et al., 1990; Laufgraben, 2005).”
Investigating the Relationship of Resilience to Academic Persistence in College Students With Mental Health Issues (2013, background): “In addition, colleges and universities typically offer living–learning communities, which are cohorts of students who take the same courses, develop study skills together, and, in some instances, live in the same residence halls (Crissman Ishler & Upcraft, 2005; Zeller, 2005).”
Course signals at Purdue: using learning analytics to increase student success (2012, background): “Categories and Subject Descriptors J.1 [Administrative Data Processing]: Education General Terms Measurement, Performance Keywords Learning Analytics, College Student Success, Early Intervention, Retention”
Do First-Year Seminars Improve College Grades and Retention? A Quantitative Review of Their Overall Effectiveness and an Examination of Moderators of Effectiveness (2016, background): “This widespread use of first-year seminars may stem, in part, from influential narrative reviews of the literature (e.g., Hunter & Linder, 2005; Pascarella & Terenzini, 2005) that suggest that first-year seminars are effective.”