...Students Abstract This study examined pre-college variables from an admission-office perspective and the ability of these variables to predict college grade point average (GPA) for students specially admitted into an academic support program for at-risk students. The research was conducted at a private, highly-selective, research university in the southwest United States. The primary determining factors for this special admission program are lowerthan-average high school GPA and/or standardized test scores. Pre-college variables that most significantly predicted college GPA were high school GPA, gender of student, and leadership experience prior to applying. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores failed to predict success as measured by college GPA. Beyond Admission Seventy-five percent of students who drop out of college do so during their first two years, and 57 percent of students leave their first college without graduating (Tinto, 1993). First semester grades (McGrath & Braunstein, 1997) and first year grades (Gifford, Briceño-Perriott, & Mianzo, 2006; Reason, 2003) are significantly linked with retention. Because these grades act as a quantifiable predictor of retention and because grades are associated with academic success, this study focuses on the predicting of first-semester and first-year GPA of at-risk...
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...------------------------------------------------- Cal Grant GPA Requirement Filing for the March 2, 2015, Cal Grant Award Deadline To be considered for a 2015-16 Cal Grant award, you must have completed both of these application requirements by March 2, 2015*: 1. Submitted a 2015-16 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or a 2015-16 California Dream Act Application. 2. Ensured that a certified Grade Point Average (GPA) was submitted to the California Student Aid Commission (Commission). The Commission will not process any GPAs that may have been submitted in prior years. In order for a student to be considered for a 2015-2016 Cal Grant award, a new GPA form must be received by the Commission by the stated deadline. The March 2, 2015, Cal Grant filing deadline has passed. The next filing deadline, for community college students only, is September 2, 2015 (see below). If circumstances beyond your control prevented the submission of your March 2 Cal Grant GPA, you may file an appeal according to the following instructions. Filing a March 2 Late GPA Appeal State law and Commission regulations allow students to file appeals if they were not able to submit their GPA on-time due to circumstances beyond their control. Students wishing to file an appeal to submit a late March 2 GPA must follow the instructions on the form below. All late GPA appeals and the calculated GPA must be submitted using this form and must be received by the Commission: 1. For High School Entitlement Cal Grant candidates...
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...students’ readiness in high school education. The result of the test is formative factor whether the student is accepted or not from which student seeks admission. Schools may decide to use standardized test which may be purchased from testing companies or they can use validated teacher-made test. The NSDAPS uses teacher-made test for grade 7 student applicants who are from public schools nearby. It is composed of English, Mathematics and Science Test. According to Hakkinen (2004) admission rules should be designed to help in achieving education policy goals and they should be comprehensible, stable, fair, cost-effective and legitimate. Student quality is also of direct economic interest and universities are interested in predicting the academic achievement of the students in deciding which applicants are to admit. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the result of the entrance test and scholastic performance (GPA) of grade 7 students. According to Flejoles & Depamaylo (2011), the academic readiness of a student in college is seen to be contributed by his or her basic education. Likewise, high school students’ readiness is important towards their success in high school. This school year, the NSDAPS makes it sure that its programs really attend to the learners concerns particularly in admission strategies and programs instruction. Review of Related Studies According to Hakkinen (2004) most studies find that senior secondary school grades are positively...
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...20th 2014 Lakeland High School Advisor: Stacy Oddi 1630 Bogie Lake Road White Lake, MI 48383 (248) 676-8320 Stacy.oddi@hvs.org Abstract Researchers instructed Lakeland High School eleventh grade students to take a survey given to them. This survey was conducted in order to find data showing a correlation between single parents and a low grade point average. Fifty surveys were given out to two separate classes. This survey asked students about their family life at home and their grade point average. Most of the students took it seriously, but there are other variables that could have affected the results. There was no correlation found between a single parent and a student’s average GPA. There are several factors that influence a student’s school grade point average, also known as GPA. Family life, with either a single parent or married parents, could affect students in school. It’s important to look at this topic to see how kids in school are influenced by family life. This could show why some students are more or less likely to succeed than others, thus being beneficial to see how a child’s family life influences how well they do in school. There are numerous studies closely related to how certain relationship elements can impact a student’s performance in school. Researchers have studied the relationship between teachers and students. There was a positive correlation when the teachers had a good relationship with the students resulting in a GPA in the students....
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...SCHOOL AND WORK TARDINESS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RURAL WISCONSIN by Barbara Lee Weade A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree in Training and Development Approved: 4 Semester Credits ________________________________________________ Dr. Joseph A. Benkowski, Research Advisor The Graduate College University of Wisconsin - Stout May, 2004 ii The Graduate College University of Wisconsin Stout Menomonie, WI 54751 ABSTRACT Weade (Writer)(Last Name) Barbara (First) L. (Middle Initial) SCHOOL AND WORK TARDINESS IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RURAL WISCONSIN Title Training & Development Dev (Graduate Program) Dr. Joseph Benkowski (Research Advisor) May 2004 (Month/Year) 80 (#Pgs) American Psychological Association, 5th edition Manual Style Businesses expect employees to arrive at the workplace with basic Asoft skills@ which include personal attributes like punctuality. The purpose of this research study was to examine the relationship between school and work tardiness in high school students in rural central Wisconsin. The literature review covered tardiness and absences in the work and school environment, school failure and its relationship to school tardiness and absenteeism, school interventions to change deviant behavior, students= insights about deviant school behavior, the home influence on school tardiness and absences, and the effect of work on school behavior and iii performance. The...
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...to see if you can get into that specific school. For example, they would look at your GPA and most of the student's would have to do an SAT to check what classes does he or she needs for the career that the student is looking for. Beres tells us his experience, he was one out of 11,000 out of 34,000 students to join the New York University freshman class (79). That means that they would accept people that are smarter than others. His friend didn’t had a good GPA so he seems to be a lazy student.It is hard to apply now a...
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...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 broader understanding of facts and a better insight on life that will make one a better individual, responsible and upright citizen. In the learning process, the student is the center of education. Studying their different aspects as a student such as age, gender, the school where they finished their secondary education and their general average in fourth year high school as factors that...
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...High school students in part-time employment: What effects on scholastic performance? Educators in the United States have long argued about the effects of part-time work on the academic performance of high school students. Though many studies claim that there is a relationship between a student’s grade point average (GPA) – the standard measure academic performance in high schools and universities in the US – and the number of hours the students is employed, there seems little agreement on what that relationship is. Several studies (Sneider, 1982; Wallace, 1988; Johnson and Payne, 1989) suggest that students who work after school do better in their school work than students who do not have a job. Peel and Maas (1990), meanwhile, suggest that students with part-time job generally do worse than their classmates who do not work at all. Still other research claims the amount of hours worked outside school hours is of very minor importance; much more important in influencing a student’s performance in school are the student’s habits and home life (Alvares, 1987). Of seven major studies on high school students in employment received by Bjarnes and Doi (1990), four studies specifically investigated the relationship between scholastic achievement and part-time work. Of these, two concluded that students who work beyond a certain amount of hours per week tent to have generally lower GPAs (Walson and Yin, 1990; Corbelli, 1989). These two studies noted...
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...As Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done”. It may seem impossible to keep good grades and a certain GPA while playing sports, but if accepted, the student can make it happen with determination. High school athletes should have to keep a certain GPA. If the student can’t keep their grades up, then perhaps eligibility should be declined for that season. Also, if an individual is determined to play sports, then they should strive to get better grades. Lastly, high school athletes should put school work before sports participation. If they can’t keep their grades up, then they shouldn’t be able to play sports. High school athletes should not have the privilege to play sports if they are not working hard in school....
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...E – International Scientific Research Journal, VOLUME – V, ISSUE – 2, 2013, ISSN 2094 - 1749 FACTORS INFLUENCING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PHYSICS OF DMMMSU- MLUC LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS S.Y. 2011-2012 Noemi Mangaoang-Boado noemi2569@yahoo.com Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University Mid La Union Campus San Fernando City, 2500 La Union, Philippines ABSTRACT This study focused on the investigation on the predictors of the academic performance in Physics of Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University Mid La Union Campus (DMMMSU-MLUC) Laboratory High School Fourth Year Students for the School Year 2011-2012. Factors such as family, student, school and teacher factors were correlated to academic performance. Significant relationships to academic performance in Physics occurred for the four factors namely, Grade Point Average (GPA) in Math, GPA in English, attitude towards Physics, and study habits. The results imply that students’ performance in Physics will be higher if they perform better in English and Mathematics; if they show positive attitude towards Physics; and if they possess good study habits. Among the factors, GPA in Math had the best influence to academic performance in Physics. KEYWORDS: performance, factor, predictor INTRODUCTION Learning (represented by academic performance in this study) of students is not confined in a closed space. Different factors bombard this learning which can either enhance or undermine it. These include family...
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...What is a GPA? GPA is an abbreviation for grade point average. It’s a calculated average of the grades that you earn in school. You receive a GPA at the end of each semester based on the grades that you earned. You receive a good GPA by keeping good grades because a GPA is based off of how good your grades are, or how bad they are. The highest GPA you can get is a 4.0 and the lowest is a 0. You actually can get higher than a 4.0 but that’s really hard to get because you have to have extra credit in all of your classes. The highest GPA is a 4.0 but sometimes it can be higher depending on what school you go to. The lowest your GPA can be is a 0, which is really bad, and means that you absolutely no work. If you do no work or anything...
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... November 10, 12 Acceptance Kids today are so excited about enrolling into a university after graduating from high school. But, today the admission requirements are a bit absurd. I feel that the requirements that they are setting for students are bringing applicants down. Requirements vary widely from country to country and sometimes from institution to institutions. The common criteria requirements, that they are looking at is GPA, sat and act scores, and the general college admission essay. GPA is the number one looked at requirement for enrollment of colleges. During this admission process, GPA is one of the most confusing topics for students. It’s and issue of translation. If every high school utilized the same grading system, it would be a lot less trouble comparing grade point averages from different schools. Different schools grades totally different from any other schools some schools give extra “points” to honors, accelerated, and AP classes, there are many different method of calculating a cumulative GPA. Independent and boarding schools use the grading system based on a 6-10, or 11-point scale, there are many different grading systems such as: the 4.0 scale, percentile system, and the letter grade methods (Pererson’s, 2012). The minimum GPA that colleges are expecting is B+ average. Students that take course in high school that are tougher have more of an advantage of being accepted. They want to reward you for stretching yourself, and will find...
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...Accounting Cumulative GPA: 3.99Expected Graduation: June 2018 Accounting GPA: 4.0 STRENGTHS Self-Motivation – Progressing at an accelerated rate through coursework with a high GPA and extra curricular involvement Collaboration – Management of group projects and sports experience requiring effective communication with peers Leadership – Multiple leadership roles as lacrosse coach and player for high school and college teams Organized– Managing time and schedules of multiple clubs and organizations at school, while maintaining high GPA Microsoft Programs – Experience and coursework in Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word WORK EXPERIENCE Treasurer Pi Kappa Alpha, Corvallis, ORFebruary 2016-Present • Elected by members of fraternity to serve for 2016-2017 • Creating budget for multiple terms, including expenses and income of over $17,000 • Maintaining a collection rate for member dues of over 95%, including multiple payment plans • Managing payments and information to multiple vendors CoachJune 2015-August 2015 Xcelerate Nike Lacrosse Camps, Portland, OR • Collaborated with team of 8-10 other coaches and supervisors to manage practice plans • Organized and communicated schedules to players daily • Assisted in supervision and control of over 100 campers ranging from ages 10-18 • Offered positions for multiple other camps as a result of effective coaching CoachSummers 2014-2015 Westview High School Club Lacrosse,...
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... Connection to Audience: Raise your hand if you ever took the ACT and/or SAT? Everyone in here should have because most colleges require either or in order to be accepted and admitted into the school, including Mizzou. I myself took the ACT three times (credibility). Therefore, we have all experienced the heavy amount of pressure, the nerve-racking time limits, and the “oh my gosh I only have more five minutes but two whole columns left to bubble” feeling. But most importantly, we all understand how much college admission hinges on how well we perform on these standardized tests. III. Thesis Statement and Preview: However, standardized testing has long-standing problems of inaccuracy, inequalities, and inducing test anxiety which I will later discuss in detail. Because of these flaws, the college...
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...I decided to increase my GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 by the end of this fall 2013 semester. I currently take 4 classes, in which I will come up with a plan to achieve my goal to have a 3.0 by the end of the semester. When students earn a below average grade on examinations or a report card, it does not necessarily mean that they did not study hard enough. There are many intelligent children who do not perform well in school, not because they cannot comprehend classroom lessons, but because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors that the researcher’s identified is the living situation of college students. The living situations that a college student experience are varied due to the diversity of housing options and environments available. Some of the aspects of college student living environments may act as stress factors in students’ lives. The stress related to living situations that college students’ experience has several sources including relationships with roommates, the condition of the rooms, apartments, or houses that students inhabit, the neighborhood, area on campus, and general living environment. These sources of stress undoubtedly have an impact on the student’s academic performance. Academic performance is the evidence how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. The extent of student’s...
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