...Beginning college studies is like starting an entirely new life. One would think that college was simply an academic extension of high school, but that is far from the truth. The commencement of one life marks the end of another life. It is a time where the previous life of a high schooler ceases to exist, and is replaced by a different world. In fact, the major changes a student goes through are more indicative of growing up than they are of getting smarter. The following paragraphs explore some of the differences student face when moving on from high school to college. Often, students nearing their high school graduation wonder what new challenges will be waiting for them in college. When the days of college finally arrive, they realize that these challenges are major and will alter their lives forever. From the first semester, right from the start, the college freshman notices a drastic difference in terms of personal freedom. For one thing, most college students do not continue to live with their parents. College is a time when the former high schooler develops a greater level of independence. The student grows and matures, moves her belongings and finds a new place to live. Sometimes, she finds a roommate, someone who is not a member of the family. Moving doesn't just have to be leaving the home in search of a new one. Sometimes students make an even bigger transition than simply leaving the house. In the United States it is very common for students to leave their home...
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...Difference Between High School and Collage. What are the differences regarding college and high school education? You might have heard that, unlike high school, college is a mythical land where parties overrule study sessions and professors don't care whether or not you skip class. Well, not quite! While this statement may prove to be true there are far greater differences between both levels of education. For instance one of the perks of a college education is that you are given more freedom as opposed to high school where your time is on demand. Also there is a difference in the work load in that it requires quality time, effort and research. Lastly, in high school students are limited to a certain dress code but in college students are not mandated to wear any sort of uniform attire. In essence the natural progression from high school to college life is presented with many major differences. To add, as we progress through our high school years growing with wisdom and maturity, one major component not given to us, but yearned for is freedom. Everyone wants the power to act, speak, or think as they want without any sort of hindrance. And that is exactly what collage offers those who are seeking tertiary education, a great deal of freedom not found in high school. To compare as a responsible young adult, in college you are given the opportunity to arrange your own class schedule and manage your own time with no one their telling you what or how something needs to...
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...College vs. high school Education, October 16, 2014, Marie Samaan “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Mark Twain. High school and College is just another part in everyone’s lives that they go through. Almost everyone goes through the two different worlds between high school and college. Most people strive themselves by achieving a form of someone education after high school. College education and high school education have a vast amount of differences between them. When looking at these two establishments of learning, there are many factors that differentiate high school and college. Therefore it is evident that the major differences between a high school education and college post secondary education consists of freedom, age and maturity level, and structure that is provided within these two institution’s of learning. When one attends college it is almost obvious that newfound freedom comes hand in hand with this education opposed to a high school education where one’s freedom is very limited. When attending high school one receives fair amount of discipline, which consists scheduled and structured times and due dates of classes, and preparing one for tests and projects. The students are expected to abide to a schedule that does not change throughout the year. This is the basic routine of high school students that everyday they are expected by teachers to have excellent attendance and that one will face discipline if the attendance isn’t met. When...
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...Comparison/Contrast Essay English 8—T. Manns Parcells Middle School Grosse Pointe Woods, MI www.gpschools.org Comparison=Similarity Contrast=Difference Comparisons are discussions in which one identifies the similarities between two (or more) ideas or things; Contrasts, on the other hand, are discussions in which one indicates differences between two (or more) ideas or things. A very important part of writing this kind of an essay is the creative use of TRANSITIONS. There is no ONE way to write a Comparison/Contrast essay as it depends on Topic choice and the direction of the Thesis Statement. For this reason, you will be presented with a “MENU” of options. In addition, you will need to determine how you will organize your paper as there are two approaches: Point-by-Point or the Block Method. Organization Point-by-Point Method: Compares items one point at a time. The Topic Sentence in each Body Paragraph focuses on the point being used as the basis of comparison rather than the item. Block Method: Presents ALL relevant features for the first subject, then ALL relevant features for the second subject. If you were writing a Comparison/Contrast of college and high school you might focus on three points: * Cost of attending high school and college * Workload in high school and college * Social aspects of high school and college Point-by-Point Method Block Method Introduction and ThesisItems to be compared, reason...
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...School plays an important role in our life. Many of us will spend more than fifteen years at school in order to get the qualifications that are required to work in a specific field. Of course, those years are broken down into several levels, some of them being more liked than others. Two important steps that we go through are high school and college. Even though some people would think they are almost similar, yet there are significant differences between them. The cost of high school education is not the same as the cost of college education. Also, some differences apply from an academic point of view. Typically, the social environment also differs from high school to college, a fact that can be related to the question of freedom versus responsibility. It is true to say that college is more expensive than high school. Of course, it provides a higher level of education, but by having such high fees it does not give a chance to them; coming from a family with a low income. Also, at college you have to buy your own books whereas in high school you borrow them from the school for a year. As they do for high schools, the government should pay for the books and then borrow them to students, as they do in high schools. Paying for the education you get is expensive, but many people have to pay even more. Many cities do not have colleges, so students who want to get a higher education have to move away to another city where they will be provided the education they need. This...
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...When your senior year is coming to an send and you are getting ready to venture off to college, it can seem intimidating. High school is a safe and familiar place to most people. This makes it hard to think about moving away to college, which is new and unfamiliar. There are a few differences between the two, but nothing that can not be overcome. One major difference in college is that you have to manage your own time. You don't go in every class five days a week, so that can make it harder to keep track of your work. In high school you homework that is due the next day, but in college you have assignments that can be due a whole week from when it is given. Learning how to manage your time and not procrastinate is probably the hardest battle...
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...FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THE DIVINE WORD COLLEGE OF BANGUED FIRST SEMESTER 2010-2011 Mary B. Gallardo,MST-Math, Alfreinell S. Castillo, BSC, Jessie T. Sibayan, AB, Marianito T. Taeza, AB, and G. Regil D.Valera, BSCE Registrar’s Office, Divine Word College of Bangued June 1, 2011. The objective of this study was to examine factors such as age, gender, high school graduated from, and Grade Point Average (GPA) in fourth year and to identify whether these factors could distinguish differences among students based on academic performance. A survey was made from the available data at the Registrar’s Office. The researchers looked into the records of the first year students of the degree programs namely: Bachelor of Elementary Education (N= 37), Bachelor of Secondary Education (N= 20), Bachelor in Business Administration (N= 53), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (N= 30), and Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (N= 35) a total of 175 subjects. In this particular research, age, school graduated from and gender did not affect academic performance in college among the first year BEEd, BSEd, BSBA, BSAc and BSN students of the Divine Word College of Bangued during the first semester 2010-2011. Academic performance was significantly associated with the grade point average in high school. Introduction. Learning is a lifetime process. Continues learning equips an individual as a student with a larger tapestry of knowledge, a...
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...More Responsibilities High school life versus college life is like sugar versus salt; they both look alike but the taste is much different. The first difference that I can tell is that I turn to be partially independent. My parents are not treating me like a baby anymore; but instead they now treat me as a young adult. When I was in high school, my parents would not let me to drive to school even when I got my driver license at age of 17. They did not feel safe when I drive the car to school alone. Since I go to college, I now can drive my own car to go to school and I can go home whenever I want to. Besides that, they did not let me go out late but now I can be home anytime that I want. That is the first thing that I notice the difference between high school and college life. The second thing that I can clearly tell the difference is about conversations. High school students tend to talk about whatever they want to without thinking. The most interesting subjects for high school students are: where do we go after school today; what games do we play today; what movies will be released this week… all of those subjects are different, however, they all have one thing in common is that they are all about entertaining. But in college, it is different; people talk more about school and their careers. I am not saying all college students but at least the people that I know in college includes myself; we care more about subjects which are related to school and work. Our conversations...
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...The purpose of the study was to determine possible differences in leadership behaviors, using the Revised Leadership for Sport Scale (RLSS), between male and female coaches and among different coaching levels. The researchers submitted two hypotheses. The first hypothesis was that male and female coaches would respond differently to the RLSS in overall leadership behaviors. The second hypothesis was that differences on the RLSS would occur among coaching levels: junior high, high school, and college. The sample was nonrandom, including 162 coaches that were chosen on a volunteer basis. Within the sample, 118 (0.73) of the coaches were male, while 44 (0.27) were female. With regard to coaching level, 25 (0.15) were junior high coaches, 99 (0.61) high school, and 38 (0.24) at the college level. While this is a good sample size, the problem lies with the distribution of the sample. The sample number for junior high coaches, in particular, is rather low. A larger sample with regard to all categories would have aided in the data analysis, particularly when looking for possible interactions between gender and coaching level. The instrument utilized was the Revised Leadership for Sport Scale (RLSS) developed by Zhang, Jensen, and Mann in 1996. This scale is used to measure six leadership behaviors: training and instruction, democratic, autocratic, social support, positive feedback, ...
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...McCowell High School Teachers vs. College Professors Many people assume that a teacher is a teacher regardless of whether they teach high school or college, but in reality there are many differences between the two. Although high school’s purpose is to prepare a student for college, a high school teacher is much more lenient and will push you to get things done. As many college students will tell you, a professor will not wait on you to do work and will not bend the rules for you. Regardless of what some may think, there are many differences between educators who teach at different levels. The differences range from different grading styles and policies to due dates and deadlines. High school teachers let their students get away with so much stuff. The students can get away with skipping, texting in class, cheating, and numerous other “illegal” school activities. Most high school students do not apply themselves when it comes to doing school work and projects. So they just sit there in class and try to be the class clown. They know that their punishment for disrupting the class is not going to be severe. In high school, the punishment will not be as strict as a college professor would administer. If a student in high school has a cell phone out and is caught, the phone is taken away and then later given back. The high school student obviously gets a less severe punishment and only looses a cell phone for a few hours. To get out of anything in high school, all you really...
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...improve study skills and habits of work through ‘how to study’ courses and other systematic procedures. Cuff (1937) carefully derived study-habits inventory and found that it aids in finding the pupils in need of special guidance and helps to identify remedial work for the good and bad study habits of individual cases. Brown and Holtzman (1955) constructed a questionnaire to survey students ‘study habits', as well as their attitudes and motivation towards academic work. Items were compiled from group interviews with good and poor students, existing inventories on study habits, studies using observational and interview techniques and reports on related experiments in the field of learning. Scoring keys based on validity studies in ten colleges were developed. Study habits basically consist of effective methods of study (Sorenson, 1954). Study is the total of all the habits, determined purposes and enforced practices that the individual uses in order to learn. Study is hard work, no easy substitute is available (Armstrong, 1956), Brown and Holtzman (1956) and Srivastava (1967) point out that for good academic success, good study habits and attitudes are important. Some reports stress that certain personality characteristics such as attitudes, set and motivation towards scholastic activity are related to achievement rather than study habits (Anderson and Kuntz, 1957: Ahmann and Smilh, 1958 and De Sena, 1964). Gracie and Whlegham (1958) found that the correlation increased slightly...
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...Similarities and Differences between U.K’s and U.S.A’s Education Policy Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Introduction Education policy refers to the guidelines and principles that the government put in place as laws in order to govern the activities around education systems in their country (Dewey, 2012). These policies are meant to be implemented in all the stages of education that is from early childhood education, kindergarten through to 12th grade, university and college education, graduate, adult education and job training. The areas that the government focuses on while formulating and implementing education policy include school choice, class size, school size, teacher education, school privatization, teacher pay and certification, curricular content, teaching methods, school infrastructure and education requirements (Dewey, 2012). It also encompasses the values and missions that schools aim to uphold and achieve respectively. A country’s academic success is greatly determined by the kind of education policies that have been formulated and implemented by its government (Ravitch, 2012). Hence this is a very vital factor for citizens to consider when they are obligated to vote in a new government. They tend to look at the most beneficial and favorable education policies that are going to be for the good of the country. Politicians also prioritize this factor when they are campaigning for office. This essay aims at comparing...
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...Comparison and Contrast Essay: High School vs. College Life | High School vs. College Life | High school, as well as college is just another part in everyone’s lives. Almost everyone go through such a transition between two very diverse and different worlds. These diverse worlds can be compared and contrasted by everyone. | Keandra Guilmant April 25th, 2016 EN1150 Composition 1 Keandra Guilmant April 25th, 2016 EN1150 Composition 1 4/20/2016 4/20/2016 The way students in high school and college should feel is “It’s just another necessity we need in life.” Almost everyone goes through such a transition between two very diverse and different worlds. These diverse worlds can be compared and contrasted by everyone; however, not all are aware of the possible similarities and differences between them. The purpose of this essay is to compare the students’ high school and college life in terms of the level of academic responsibilities, time schedule, as well as the culture practiced by each student. First of all, high school is the first step to a higher level of learning. This place equips us with the proper knowledge needed in order to survive college and other higher levels of learning. The topics being taught in high school are generalized in basic Math, Science, English, and many other subjects. The students are more relaxed and their responsibilities are not that complicated and heavy in a sense that there are fewer requirements and their due dates...
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...1 CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Education is the development of the endowed capacities in the individual, which will enable him to control his environment and fulfill his possibilities to a major extent. Education is a fostering, a nurturing and a cultivating process and is attentive to all conditions of development. Furthermore, education is considered also a social process and implies a social framework for social individual development. Rahman and Uddin (2009) indicated that education is a basic need of human beings. It is also very important for the development of any country. Education is the responsibility of the state and government who should make every possible effort to provide it on an ever interesting and increasing scale in accordance with the national resources. In the rising seas of education’s changes, a group of people who have been increasingly affected is at the instance of a much serious array of problems regarding education. This group of people is composed of some 355 students of the Department of Economics of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. 2 For the past years, studies regarding the status and determining factors regarding the academic performance of the students of PUP - Department of Economics were seldom done and there were insufficient information about these matters. Citations were apparent but there were no individual studies conducted to discover the determinants affecting the...
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...I think there is a big difference between college courses and classes that I took in high school. It has been fifteen years since I was in high school so remembering differences will probably be less fresh in my mind than someone that just graduated. I think the biggest difference between high school and college is that in high school I was expected and made to attend high school as where college is my choice to attend. In high school failure was not an option for me as my parents were strict and a grade below a B was not acceptable. Therefore, I applied myself to my academics because I had to. The curriculum that was set in high school was mostly a set curriculum were you take English, Math, Science and so forth. We did not have a chance to set our classes that would focus toward a career like business management or accounting. College courses are much different. I get to choose which degree program that I want to pursue that will help my career. College also requires me to be self-disciplined to stay on task and dedicate the time for my courses especially taking them online. Attendance is crucial in college education because higher attendance reflects better learning and higher grades. Research also shows that those students that obtain higher grades throughout college resulted in better chances of career success after college. I plan on using different strategies to obtain success with my college education. My plan is to organize my time management. Setting...
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