Understanding the Self-Regulated Learning Characteristics of First-Generation College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janeen Antonelli ◽  
Sara Jolly Jones ◽  
Andrea Backscheider Burridge ◽  
Jacqueline Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
First Generation College

Effects of a Science of Learning Course on College Students’ Learning With a Computer

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 947-978
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Greene ◽  
Nikki G. Lobczowski ◽  
Rebekah Freed ◽  
Brian M. Cartiff ◽  
Cynthia Demetriou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Circulatory System ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
First Generation College

First-year courses have been used to bolster college student success, but empirical evidence on their efficacy is mixed. We investigated whether a first-year science of learning course, focused on self-regulated learning, would benefit first-generation college students. We randomly assigned students to a treatment condition involving enrollment in the course, a comparison condition in which students had access to online course materials only, or a control condition. From this larger study, we recruited 43 students to participate in a laboratory task involving learning about the circulatory system with a computer. We found that treatment and comparison students experienced greater changes in conceptual knowledge than the control group, and we found differences in the enactment of monitoring and strategy use across conditions.

Out of Thin Air

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Emily Lyons
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
College Attendance ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Generation Students ◽  
Large Role ◽  
First Generation College ◽  
Family Identities

This chapter considers the processes of constructing an academic identity for first-generation students. It discusses challenges to building an academic identity among first-generation college students, both for those whose parents are unambiguously supportive of their child's college attendance and those who are ambivalent. The chapter reveals that the identities that students take on as college students and as members of their family are two aspects of the self that students described as being central to who they are. For many students, tensions between their academic and family identities are moderate to none. For first-generation students, however, the very decision to enroll in college may mark a divergence from their parents' trajectories and the trajectories expected of them. This is because schooling plays a large role in socialization, and college plays a particularly large role in shaping people's beliefs, habits, preferences, and behaviors.

First-Generation College Students: Predicting Stress and Career Outcome Expectation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Wen W. Ma ◽  
Munyi Shea ◽  
Treah Caldwell ◽  
Login George ◽  
Tania Chowdhury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Outcome Expectation ◽  
First Generation College

Measuring School Acculturation in First-Generation College Students

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian A. Aguirre ◽  
David A. GonzaLez ◽  
Sharon R. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
First Generation College
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