This report gives an answer to the question "What motivates summer session attendance?" The patterns of attendance of 3 groups of students (summer session only, academic year only, and both) are compared with the "ideal," and the generalization is made that the academic year students attending the summer session are "more…

This report gives an answer to the question "How does the experience in the concentrated time period of the summer session compare with the academic year?" The grade point achievements and credit loads completed are compared for summer session and academic year students in the College of Liberal Arts, College of Education, and Graduate…

To determine whether there is a trend toward using the summer session as a fourth quarter, the enrollment patterns of 3 groups of students at the University of Minnesota were compared over a 5-year period covering the 1964 to 1968 summer sessions and the 1963-1964 to 1967-1968 academic years. The student groups comprised degree candidates who…