Sentences with phrase «traditional college freshman»

Hickman, G.P., Bartholomae, S. & McKenry, P.C. (2000) Influence of parenting styles on the adjustment and academic achievement of traditional college freshman.

Influence of parenting styles on the adjustment and academic achievement of traditional college freshmen.

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The paper not only happens to profile Simmons College, but also four other traditional colleges and universities leading novel innovations — Arizona State University and its Global Freshman Academy, Northeastern University and its Level Bootcamp, the University of Wisconsin and its UW Flex program, and Southern New Hampshire University and its College for America.

In the fall of 2013, the researchers randomly assigned 907 freshman students assessed as needing math remediation into one of three groups: traditional remedial elementary algebra; the same algebra course with an additional two - hour weekly workshop; or a college - level statistics class with an additional two - hour weekly workshop.

But right now, far too many young men and women are more - likely to flunk out of higher education; one - third of freshmen collegians end up taking remedial math and English courses, a factor that contributes to low college graduation rates at all levels of traditional and for - profit higher ed.

Many traditional high schools and private schools also grade themselves by calculating the number of their graduates accepted into colleges — but then rarely follow up to ensure that those students even enroll in their freshman year of college, let alone complete their studies to earn degrees.

Problem is, the traditional high school measures of college readiness are crude, as seen by the shockingly high number of incoming college freshmen who require remedial coursework before they are even allowed to take for - credit courses — a fault that leads to millions of degree - earning failures.

For the first time ever, any student anywhere can take top - quality courses online in every major freshman college subject, taught by professors from the most prestigious universities, that lead to full academic credit at 2,900 traditional colleges, such as Purdue, Penn State, Colorado State and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, all absolutely free.