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Factors Contributing to the Retention of Natural Mentors among Underrepresented Students across the First Year of College
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Negrete, Andrea; Griffith, Aisha N.; Hurd, Noelle M. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2018
The current study examined characteristics of natural mentoring relationships (NMRs; i.e. mentoring relationships that develop organically with adults in one's pre-existing social network) among underrepresented college students as contributors to NMR retention across the first year of college. The sample consisted of 209 underrepresented college…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, College Freshmen, Disproportionate Representation
The Role of Personality and Gender in Performance in Science and Engineering Students
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Stewart, John C.; Murphy, Cheryl; DeVore, Seth – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The Big Five Inventory (BFI) measuring the 5-factor personality model was given to 440 science and engineering students in introductory physics classes at a large US university. Science and engineering students showed similar personality characteristics as would be expected from measurements of the general population, with women scoring…
Descriptors: Role, Personality Traits, Gender Differences, Science Education
Non-Cognitive Assessment in Provisional Admissions Practices
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Bell, Laura J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether the use of non-cognitive assessment in combination with traditional criteria predicted potential academic success as measured by first-semester GPAs of provisionally admitted students. Survey data were collected with a non-cognitive questionnaire (NCQ) from provisionally admitted…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, State Universities, Statistical Analysis