... Furthermore, this digest features the scholarly work of the adept and experienced team of the UCCO focusing on the counselor-based programs and action plans. With this, the team is delighted to share with you this annual digest as a response to the emerging needs and for the sustenance of the value of excellence of the Institution. POINTS OF INTEREST Page 2 UCCO’s SWOT Analysis, Nature of Counseling and Special Cases: Basis for a Comprehensive FEU-UCCO Guidance Program A Five Year Cross-Sectional Survey of FEU Institutional Exit Interviews An Evaluation on the Needs Assessment as Basis for Revision of ACE Modules College Adjustment Level of F r e s hm e n I nt e r na t i o na l Students Profile of FEU Students under the Selective Retention Policy Learning Style Profile of Freshmen Students of FEUMakati Psychological and Adjustment Problems Among Freshmen Architecture Students Results of the Module Evaluation on Leadership and Self-Empowerment Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Warmest regards, Dr. Sheila Marie G. Hocson, UCCO Director UCCO provides an opportunity for students to understand themselves better, identify their abilities and maximize their potentials to the fullest. Dr. Sheila Marie G. Hocson, PhD, RGC UCCO’s SWOT Analysis, Nature of Counseling and Special Cases: Basis for a Comprehensive FEU-UCCO Guidance Program...
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.... College students, especially freshmen, are a group particularly prone to stress (D'Zurilla & Sheedy, 1991) due to the transitional nature of college life (Towbes & Cohen, 1996). They must adjust to being away from home for the first time, maintain a high level of academic achievement, and adjust to a new social environment. College students, regardless of year in school, often deal with pressures related to finding a job or a potential life partner. These stressors do not cause anxiety or tension by themselves. Instead, stress results from the interaction between stressors and the individual's perception and reaction to those stressors (Romano, 1992). The amount of stress experienced may be influenced by the individual's ability to effectively cope with stressful events and situations (D'Zurilla & Sheedy, 1991). If stress is not dealt with effectively, feelings of loneliness and nervousness, as well as sleeplessness and excessive worrying may result (Wright, 1967). It is important that stress intervention programs be designed to address stress of college students. However, in order to design an effective intervention, the stressors specific to college students must be determined (Wright, 1967). The Student Stress Survey (SSS) was used to determine the major sources of stress among college students. The scale consisted of 40 potentially stressful situations. The scale addressed interpersonal, intrapersonal, academic, and environmental sources of stress. The items in the scale...
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...In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in English 102 “The study habits and its effects on Academic performance of freshmen students at Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod.” Submitted by: Gemma Acaling Reynaldo Tababa Jr. BSMT-1B Submitted to: Sr. Randolf Asistido ENGLISH 102-teacher 1 Chapter 1 Introduction As the year level of students in school becomes higher, their study habits differ from time to time. The kind of study habits they have shows the differences or improvements in how they become skilled and earnest about learning new things. Studying does not only include the preparation of students to excel in class but also the reinforcements of the lessons already taught. It is merely reviewing and committing to mind new information. Furthermore, study habits can be derived as buying out a dedicated scheduled and un-interrupted time to apply one’s self to the task of learning. Without it, one does not grow and become self-limiting in life. Truly, it plays a very important role on their academic performances. The effects of study habits on student’s academic performances rely on how they practiced their own study habits. It is actually not difficult to acquire excellent and powerful studying habits and techniques. Many of these are actually common sense and the key is the application of strong study tools...
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...Different study habits of freshmen students in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila Research paper Presented to the College of Liberal Arts Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila In Partial Fulfilment Of the requirement for English 102 by Crisostomo, Jestine A. Tamayo, Joshua Untalan, Kane Errol TABLE OF CONTENTS Biographical Data Acknowledgment Table of Contents Abstract I. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Statement of the Problem 1.2 Importance of the Study 1.3 Scope and Limitation of the Study 1.4 Definition of Terms II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE III. METHODOLOGY A. Research design B. Research locale, sample and sampling technique C. Instrument D. Statistical analysis IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION V. SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION Chapter I INTRODUCTION Study habits are the ways that you study - the habits that you have formed during your school years. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading your textbook, listening in class, and working every day. Bad study habits include skipping class, not doing your work, watching TV or playing video games instead of studying, and losing your work. It means you are not distracted by anything. Basically it means that you are doing the best you can to get the grades you want. Study Habit of every student is one of the most important factors that affect his or her understanding regarding a certain subject. It means, if a student possesses poor study habits, she...
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...across the country are frustrated with the challenge of how to motivate the ever increasing number of freshmen students entering college who are psychologically, socially, and academically unprepared for the demands of college life. Such students often exhibit maladaptive behavior such as tardiness, hostility towards authority, and unrealistic aspirations. The standard approach is to address the problem as an academic issue through remedial or developmental instruction. Developmental education programs however do not address the whole problem. Lack of motivation is not limited to the academically weak student. Successful remedial and study strategies courses aimed at the underprepared student have demonstrated that students who really want to improve their skills can do so when motivated. However, even the best remedial instruction programs have failed to positively impact the student who is both underprepared academically and unmotivated. When students have both a lack of academic skills and lack motivation, the greater problem is motivation (Kelly, 1988). Faculty often have neither the time or inclination to address difficult motivational issues in the classroom, consequently, the task of trying to effectively motivate such students often falls to academic advisors. Opinions about the role of motivation in academic achievement and what can be done about it vary widely among college faculty, administrators, and student services professionals. Consideration about unmotivated students...
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...Walking into high school and into college are two very different things. The atmosphere is different, students are different, and teachers are different. Many things are different in college. Professors are not scared to use profanity. Class styles are all different. Students are not babied in college. College is a time in a student's life to realize their dreams. However, first, they must pass basic courses. One of these basic courses includes English 101. Some students struggle with this course because they believe they are not good writers. But bad writing can be fixed, laziness cannot. As a student who has taken English 101 twice now, I have a few helpful tips for incoming freshmen on how to succeed at this course. Students who wish to end their English 101 class with a bang should avoid procrastination, correct essay mistakes, and celebrate successes and failures....
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Manila Central University is known to be one of the top performing schools in related to health sciences programs. This school is home of the topnotchers in different fields of medical science. In that note, the growing population of new students, Filipino and even foreign students is observable. Entering into a new university is a big challenge for every freshmen student because they need to adapt to the new setting. For many young people, the transition to college is relatively smooth and they learn to handle their new lives well. But for some, however, the need to manage new schedules, new friendships, new responsibilities and intense study can be overwhelming. Adjustment with university life is considered one of the main indicators of success in university life as it is an indicator for the student’s ability to face the problems resulting from fulfilling his academic, social and emotional needs. Through achieving adjustment with university life the students will be able to form a kind of good relationships with others in the university leading him to enhance his academic achievement. Moreover, adjustment with university life can be a strong indicator of the academic level of the students from one hand and the level of social relations development and achieving personal goals from the other hand. We can note that many educational scholars studied this aspect in order to explore the status of the academic, social and psychological...
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...that teachers taught grammar.In the 1960’s there was research done to show that using traditional method(Rule based) to teach grammar was ineffective.As the traditional method became less popular,the context based approach became more popular.This approach dealt more on contemporary writing skills which involved the student,the material been written about and the environment of the work that was been discussed. Grammatical errors were not often time discussed until it was made and rules not discussed until it became necessary.Studies done on this new learning method showed that lesser grammatical mistakes were made with this new approach.Even though they were many support for this new style of learning grammar,many opositions cited that the new style relegated grammar to a myopic view instead of the broad knowledge of rules and regulations that comes with writing correct sentences.Although the change in grammar learning styles,employer’s interviewed by NCW stated that there was no change in writing skills of employees in the last 15-20 years,the summary in the two reports by NCW stated that “if educators distinguish betweeb teaching correct grammar and mechanics and teaching...
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...job applicants. This is forcing high school seniors to pursue a college degree; an increase in demand causes an increase in tuition cost. This adds pressure in the economy, due to the growing amount of student loans and parent’s looking at creative options to cover the cost, such as refinancing their homes. But then, the advancement of technology could change this; however, there are complicated implication that will need to be addressed. Based on my research the major factor of the tuition increases is the reduction of state funding. The reduced state funding impacts universities; they provide 53 percent of the revenue. When the funding is cut, universities will have to cut educational or other services, and raise tuition to cover the gap. The average spend rate, per student is 23% or $2,026, which are less than the recession time. This inward turn is propelling the cost from the state to the student and influencing the universities to look at ways of covering the shortage. See Figure 1, every state except Alaska and North Dakota has cut per-spending funding. [pic] One approach is to increase the acceptance rate of out-of-state students. On average, the in-state tuition cost of a bachelor’s degree is $60,000, and the out-of-state is in the range of $100,000. This is one way to cover the shortfall of the state funding. By doing so, and the increase in demand, it will affect in-state freshmen acceptance rates. Keep in mind, there are only so many allocations...
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...THESIS STATEMENT Learning Strategies: The Most Effective Way for Freshmen Psychology Students of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study The word “learning” is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something”. The ability to learn is possessed by every human and animal. Learning is not done all at once but builds and shapes by what we already know. Also, learning is instinctive not mechanic. We don’t learn to “learn” but we do it naturally. It has been high wired into our personality since the time of our ancestors in an attempt for survival. From prehistoric cavemen to ever-curious toddlers, learning has been a big part of our life. Memory plays an important role in all learning because it lets you store and retrieve the information that you learn. It is basically the record left by a learning process, thus, memory depends on learning. But some people have a hard time in that field. A new study led by Dartmouth’s Michele Tine, published in the Journal of Cognition and Development, found that “students in urban poverty performed at just below the 40th percentile in both verbal and spatial working memory, students in rural poverty performed better in verbal-memory tasks--at the 45th percentile--and significantly worse in visual-spatial working memory, at the 29th percentile,” the article notes. As stated before, if there...
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...ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp. 1116-1121, September 2011 © 2011 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.2.5.1116-1121 Study Habits and Attitudes of Freshmen Students: Implications for Academic Intervention Programs Luisa Baquiran Aquino University Research Pool, University of Saint Louis, Tuguegarao City, Philippines Email: luisaaquino031580@gmail.com Abstract—The substantive aim of this study was to investigate the favorable and unfavorable study habits and study attitudes of the freshmen students and determine its implications in formulating academic intervention programs. The Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) instrument developed by Brown and Holtzman (1969) was used to assess the study habits and attitudes of the students. Results show that students generally do not approve teacher methods and classroom management, and have inefficient time management. Favorable and unfavorable study habits and attitudes of the students were also revealed. Implications of these findings were discussed and the theory of confluent education was considered in designing a framework of academic intervention programs among HEIs. Index Terms—study habits, study attitudes, study orientation, academic achievement, academic intervention programs, confluent education I. INTRODUCTION A great deal of research literature provides an evidence that study habits and study attitudes are both significant variables which determine...
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...Volume 1 │ Issue 1 │ April 2011 An Annual Publication of UCCO THE IMPACT OF THE ACADEMIC COMPETENCE EMPOWERMENT (ACE) PROGRAM ON THE ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENT OF FRESHMEN STUDENTS MERRIE CAROLYNE M. MATIAS, M.A., RGC ADARNA M. CIPRIANO, M.A., RGC, CCOP Guidance Counselor Institute of Arts and Sciences Guidance Counselor Institute of Tourism and Hospitality Management Freshmen year in college is a period of adjustment. While it offers opportunities that go well beyond the acquisition of an academic degree, it also brings pitfalls. A student’s first year of college, for instance, is critical not only for how much students learn but also for laying the foundation on which their subsequent academic success and persistence rest. Being cognizant to the complexities that a college life may bring, the University Counseling and Career Office of the Far Eastern University, in coordination with the various departments of the institutes, facilitates the implementation of the Academic Competence and Empowerment Program (ACE) to address the needs of its growing number of student-clients. It is composed of six (6) modules designed to assist freshman students in their adjustment to college life. The program aims to help the students acquire the necessary skills and competence that would enable freshmen to meet the demands of student life at the University. The Academic Competence and Empowerment (ACE) Program is anchored on the principle that the learner...
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...success falls to them alone. The first thing you have to realize in higher education is academic integrity you are reasonable for your own work. Do not buy papers, do not plagiarize and do not turn in assignments that are not yours. I know that this may sound like it’s an easy concept, but you’d be amazed at how many times I have heard of such things happening. Not only will it affect you but it could affect other students and reflect badly on your learning institution. Not to mention that if you start this habit now, in class, it could follow you through to your career. Do you really want to be that person? After you have decided you will uphold academic integrity you need to set your goals. Setting academic goals is very important and it’s really the first step in this process. You have to know what you want to achieve and how to get there. Having a physical goal will give you something to work for. Personally, I wanted to get my associates degree within a years’ time. I knew that I could do it because I already had quite a few college credits. It would allow me the satisfaction of completing the first step in my degree and give me...
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...My Experience Price Peterson Indiana State University SAHE 637 College was a fun and interesting experience for me. I attended California State University, Chico for six years where I earned a degree in Journalism with an option in news and editorial and a minor in recreation administration. I went into college with the goal of going into sports broadcasting or being a play by play radio announcer for my hometown Dodgers. I honestly had very little idea of what college would be like other than the expectation of the classes being harder but also geared to what I wanted to do with my life. As I progressed through school I became more and more interested in student affairs and pulled farther away from my original dream of being a sports broadcaster. During my time at Chico State I got involved in residential and several nonprofit organizations and if it hadn’t been for those experiences I wouldn’t be here in grad school. My first semester of college was pretty typical I went to class and I hung out with the fellow freshmen in my residence hall which was actually a house. I only had one person from my high school come to Chico with me so I had to start fresh with friends. This process took a while because I wasn’t as a quick to make friends in high school and that carried over into my first year of college. I didn’t have a whole lot of things at school that were important to me I wasn’t involved in any campus clubs or organizations the only time I interacted with people...
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...An old Chinese proverb states, "Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere." No matter what life throws my way, I have learned that life can change at the drop of a dime. While money and material success is great, I know that nobody in this world can take away the knowledge I've gained. Learning is the fundamental building block to the rest of one's life. From the moment we come into this world, to the time we leave, we have been constantly acquiring information. Throughout my lifetime, I have learned countless academic and life lessons. From growing up and personal experiences, I've been able to gain knowledge educationally and most importantly, through life. Since my freshmen year of high school, I have participated in many after school activities in pursuit of my goals. Each event differed from the last, but the most important lesson I learned was how to adapt. Each activity had a different set of rules, curriculum, and teaching styles. In order to succeed, I had to learn even more about myself. Another way I have learned many valuable lessons is through my personal relationships. Past and present relationships have taught me that communication, honesty, and trust are vital for a relationship to last. Talking through a misunderstanding only helps understand the other person better. Through relationships, I've learned that there's no such thing as a real connection without trust. Only with trust, can you continue to grow with another person. Life has taught...
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