Assessment of college student category and family size on students GPA scores

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Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTIONIII

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEWIII

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGYV

CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONVI

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONIX

REFERENCESXI

APPENDIXXII

Assessment of college student category and family size on students GPA scores

Chapter 1: Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between the size of a traditional student's family to their academic success their first semester of college. The research is conducted at Chadron State College with a sample of currently enrolled undergraduate students, academic performance is an indicator of the level of learning achieved by the student, represents the level of effectiveness in achieving curriculum goals for the various subjects. In our country it is expressed by an adjective or a weighted average based on the system i.e., grades vary from 0 to 4 points, hence, in the national and international educational system is given greater importance to this indicator. There is a need to study the determinants of academic performance of students by educational institutions, as well as desertion achieve educational policies designed to enable them to reach them, the highest academic performance and dropout rates low.

Chapter 2: Literature Review

The educational problem that affects the development of society is mainly due to lack of economic resources and family disintegration, this problem has now raised concerns in the governing bodies of educational institutions, for the implications on the other hand, the financial order of the public and private universities, upon the source of instability in income and other, as to question the efficiency of higher education. Therefore, only a fraction of students who begin their studies in higher education in the undergraduate culminate without any difficulty.

To meet the objectives researcher has selected the following factors: the family of origin, number of siblings, educational background of parents, family support, family background with different perspectives, GPA after first semester, family size, college courses, and consideration of students as traditional or nontraditional, the same as determining the level of student academic performance. While in the determination of the factors that influence student success in their first semester, is considered the level of student achievement and factors associated with academic and socioeconomic aspects.

Family Transformations: Increased Risk for Developing Emotional, Psychosocial and Education, indicates that the involvement of families in the educational work involves the active participation of parents in the educational projects of the school and in their role as mediators of learning, the mother being a strong predictor of academic performance. However, families of nontraditional students with low family size must deal with a set of stressors that hinder their role in supporting children's early in the academic and job insecurity, inadequate financial and material resources, marital and family problems. Therefore, the powers allow us to understand the factors controlling future events by adding a new dimension to the causal analysis. Thus, their model involves the interaction of three dimensions: locus of control, stability and control.

Ministry of Education (1997), in its literature on educational reform indicates the perception of principals and teachers about what factors affect ...