Experiences and Outcomes of First-Generation Students in Community Colleges

By Ernest T. Pascarella, Gregory C. Wolniak, Christopher T. Pierson, P. Terenzini. 2003

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Education, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d5b7aba76268eaeccf49888fbd45a19c446162c6

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Demography

1. G. Crisp

In Education

1. G. Crisp
2. Amaury Nora
3. Antje Bednarek
4. V. McKay
5. N. Trevino
6. J. Estrella
7. T. Spiegler
8. S. DeFreitas

In Political Science and International Relations

1. G. Crisp
2. Antje Bednarek
3. T. Spiegler
4. Chryssa D. Delgado

Citations in the corpus

• The relationship between intrinsic motivation and academic achievement for first generation Latino college students (2014, background): “…they also showed more resilience, more openness to diversity and challenges, better writing skills, better internal locus of attribution for academic success, preference for higher order cognitive tasks, and more stable educational degree plans compared to other students (Pascarella et al. 2003).”
• First-Generation Student Success: The Role of Faculty Interaction in Service Learning Courses (2008, background): “Research has focused, for example, on first-generation students’ academic preparation and transition to college (Pascarella et al., 2003).”
• First-Generation Students in Postsecondary Education: A Look at Their College Transcripts (2005, unknown): “Similar findings were reported in another study that focused on first-generation students attending five community colleges located in five different states (Pascarella et al. 2003).”
• Testing Tinto: How Do Retention Theories Work for First-Generation, Working-Class Students? (2008, background): “First-generation college students confront all the anxieties, dislocations, and difficulties of any other college students, and their experiences often involve cultural as well as social and academic transitions ( Pascarella, Wolniak, Pierson, & Terenzini, 2003; Rendon, 1992).”
• First-generation students: what we ask, what we know and what it means: an international review of the state of research (2013, background): “In general, it can be said that they perform as well or only slightly – and not always significantly – poorer than other students (Grayson, 1997; Hahs-Vaughn, 2004; Pascarella et al., 2003, 2004).”
• Hispanic Student Success: Factors Influencing the Persistence and Transfer Decisions of Latino Community College Students Enrolled in Developmental Education (2010, result): “Evidence to support this notion has been found for both Latino/a and community college populations (e.g., Logerbeam et al. 2004; Pascarella et al. 2003).”