Academic Achievement in First Generation College Students: The Role of Academic Self-Concept

This study examined whether verbal and math self-concepts could help explain the academic performance of first generation college students.  Participants were 167 ethnically diverse students at an inner city, commuter, open-enrollment, four-year university in the southwestern United States.  Results...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stacie Craft DeFreitas, Anne Rinn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indiana University Office of Scholarly Publishing 2012-12-01
Series:Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/2161