| Title: |
Profiles of Undergraduate Completers: Deconstructing the Heterogeneity |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Susan Troncoso Skidmore (ORCID 0000-0002-5731-0988); Linda Reichwein Zientek (ORCID 0000-0001-9741-0257); Forrest C. Lane (ORCID 0000-0002-8970-3014) |
| Source: |
Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. 2024 26(3):794-815. |
| Availability: |
SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
22 |
| Publication Date: |
2024 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Education Level: |
Higher Education; Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: |
Undergraduate Students; Profiles; Full Time Students; Student Characteristics; Demography; Educational Attainment; Public Colleges; Research Universities; Academic Achievement |
| DOI: |
10.1177/15210251221121327 |
| ISSN: |
1521-0251; 1541-4167 |
| Abstract: |
A person-centered approach identified five empirically unobserved student profiles of first-time full-time university students who shared similar academic patterns, performance measures, and demographic characteristics. "Honors" and "Flourishing" classes tended to graduate within 6 years of attempting their first-college mathematics course, earned a high grade in that course, and made continued degree progress. The "Flourishing" class had lower semester and first-college mathematics GPAs than the "Honors" class but higher GPAs than the "Tenacious" class. Placement in remedial mathematics alone did not determine class membership. The "Honors" class had an overrepresentation of White women, and an underrepresentation of Black men. Hispanic students were most prevalent in the "Flourishing" group while Black men were more prevalent in the "Tenacious" group. As a whole, men fared worse on outcomes than women. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2024 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1442842 |
| Database: |
ERIC |