First Generation College Students: Motivation, Integration, and Academic Achievement

By M. Próspero, Shetal Vohra-Gupta. 2007

209 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b423d34264516261b3037cd789b4039308dda923

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In Education

1. R. Stollberg
2. Kelly A. Slaton
3. Antje Bednarek
4. Robert K. Toutkoushian
5. Alina V. katrevich
6. Krista M. Soria
7. C. Hudley
8. Mara S. Aruguete

In Social Psychology

1. Antje Bednarek
2. Krista M. Soria
3. C. Hudley
4. T. Spiegler
5. Michael J. Stebleton
6. R. Moschetti

Citations in the corpus

• Social Capital and Academic Motivation Among First-Generation Community College Students (2015, background): “…in postsecondary institutions has focused on low-income, ethnic minority adolescents, finding that low socioeconomic status (low-SES) and first-generation ethnic minority students struggle in accessing beneficial social capital on campus (Prospero & Vohra-Gupta, 2007; Saunders & Serna, 2004).”
• First-generation students' academic engagement and retention (2012, result): “The variance accounted for in our models is relatively low, although it is on par with similar regression studies of first-generation students' academic integration (among other factors) conducted by Prospero and Vohra-Gupta ( 2007 ); however, we advocate for continuing study to find evidence of lat”
• Talking ‘Bout My Generation: Defining “First-Generation College Students” in Higher Education Research (2018, background): “When both parents have gone to college, they may also have more total social and cultural capital between them that can be used to help their children to go to college (Dumais & Ward, 2010; Prospero & Vohra-Gupta, 2007; Wells, Seifert, Padgett, Park, & Umbach, 2011).”
• Recognizing Challenges and Predicting Success in First-Generation University Students (2017, background): “Prospero and Vohra-Gupta (2007) showed that first-generation students tend to work longer hours than other students.”
• First-generation students: what we ask, what we know and what it means: an international review of the state of research (2013, background): “They attend fewer extra-curricular courses and events and overall have lower social integration scores (Grayson, 2011; Próspero & Vohra-Gupta, 2007).”