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This article is published in Journal of Palliative Medicine.The article was published on 2010-09-13. It has received 473 citations till now.read more
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"It Takes a Village to Raise a Child": The Role of Social Capital in Promoting Academic Success for African American Men at a Black College
Robert T. Palmer,Marybeth Gasman +1 more
TL;DR: A study of 11 African American men attending a public, urban HBCU, indicated that the university's rich supply of social capital makes it a unique fixture in the landscape of higher education, one whose special features have not been replicated by historically white institutions as mentioned in this paper.
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Psychosocial Factors Predicting First-Year College Student Success
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of six psychosocial factors for college success among 579 first-year college students and found that self-efficacy and organization and attention to study were predictive of first semester grade point average (GPA).
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Competing Explanations of Undergraduate Noncompletion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed longitudinal data from a nationally representative panel of college entrants to test and compare several theoretical explanations of college degree attainment and non-completion, and used a methodological tool to combine multiple variables into single conceptual predictors and estimate their relative effect sizes across college types.
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Race, Gender, and Measures of Success in Engineering Education
Matthew W. Ohland,Catherine E. Brawner,Michelle M. Camacho,Richard A. Layton,Russell A. Long,Susan M. Lord,Mara H. Wasburn +6 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that women in nearly all racial groups persist to the eighth semester at rates comparable to men, and that gender differences in persistence of Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and White students are far outweighed by institutional differences.
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Race and Belonging in School: How Anticipated and Experienced Belonging Affect Choice, Persistence, and Performance:
Mary C. Murphy,Sabrina Zirkel +1 more
TL;DR: A sense of belonging in school is a complex construct that relies heavily on students' perceptions of the educational environment, especially their relationships with other studen... as mentioned in this paper, and it is dependent heavily on the students' perception of their educational environment.
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"It Takes a Village to Raise a Child": The Role of Social Capital in Promoting Academic Success for African American Men at a Black College
Robert T. Palmer,Marybeth Gasman +1 more
TL;DR: A study of 11 African American men attending a public, urban HBCU, indicated that the university's rich supply of social capital makes it a unique fixture in the landscape of higher education, one whose special features have not been replicated by historically white institutions as mentioned in this paper.
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Psychosocial Factors Predicting First-Year College Student Success
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of six psychosocial factors for college success among 579 first-year college students and found that self-efficacy and organization and attention to study were predictive of first semester grade point average (GPA).
Journal ArticleDOI
Competing Explanations of Undergraduate Noncompletion
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed longitudinal data from a nationally representative panel of college entrants to test and compare several theoretical explanations of college degree attainment and non-completion, and used a methodological tool to combine multiple variables into single conceptual predictors and estimate their relative effect sizes across college types.
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Race, Gender, and Measures of Success in Engineering Education
Matthew W. Ohland,Catherine E. Brawner,Michelle M. Camacho,Richard A. Layton,Russell A. Long,Susan M. Lord,Mara H. Wasburn +6 more
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that women in nearly all racial groups persist to the eighth semester at rates comparable to men, and that gender differences in persistence of Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and White students are far outweighed by institutional differences.
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Race and Belonging in School: How Anticipated and Experienced Belonging Affect Choice, Persistence, and Performance:
Mary C. Murphy,Sabrina Zirkel +1 more
TL;DR: A sense of belonging in school is a complex construct that relies heavily on students' perceptions of the educational environment, especially their relationships with other studen... as mentioned in this paper, and it is dependent heavily on the students' perception of their educational environment.