The Effect that First-Year Experience Courses Have on Student Athletes' Academic Success When Only Student Athletes are Enrolled Versus When Student Athletes are Enrolled with Non-Athletes
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Scott A. Amundsen (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Bert Goldman
Abstract: This study examined whether the academic success, specifically the grade-point average, NCAA progress-towards-degree, and freshman to sophomore retention rates, of student athletes was influenced by participating in a first-year experience course populated exclusively by student-athletes and taught by athletic-academic personnel compared to student-athletes participating in an integrated first-year experience course populated by the general student body and taught by a faculty member not associated with the athletic-academic support staff at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). The results of the study showed that no significant differences existed between the groups regarding academic performance and NCAA progress-towards degree. There was also very little difference in freshman to sophomore retention rates between the two groups with the exception of white males participating in low-profile sports. The quantitative data for this study were collected from EKU's student information system.
The Effect that First-Year Experience Courses Have on Student Athletes' Academic Success When Only Student Athletes are Enrolled Versus When Student Athletes are Enrolled with Non-Athletes
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- Higher education
- Subjects
- College athletes--Education (Higher)
- Academic achievement
- Prediction of scholastic success
- College dropouts--Prevention
- College freshmen
- College sophomores