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DeStefano, Lizanne Walls, Gina Denise 2011-05-07T12:33:56Z 2011-05-07T12:33:56Z 10000-01-01 1996 Community colleges are especially in need of programs to improve student persistence. Orientation to college courses have been linked to increased persistence in four-year and two-year colleges. An orientation course in a community college was evaluated for its impact on student persistence and for its effect on student attitudes and behaviors. In a quasi-experimental design, Treatment and Control groups of full-time, first-time, degree-seeking students were selected from three fall semesters. Treatment groups consisted of students who had successfully completed the orientation course. Control group students were matched to treatment group students by age, gender, ethnicity, writing placement, and high school percentile rank. Treatment group students reenrolled in subsequent spring semesters at significantly higher rates than control groups students. Findings for reenrollment fall to subsequent fall were inconclusive. No differences between treatment and control groups were found for semester grade point averages or completion ratios of number of credit hours earned to number attempted. A content analysis of final projects revealed treatment group students reporting improved goal setting ability, increased self-assessment of academic and general life skills, and enhanced self-esteem. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:33:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9702710.pdf: 4822238 bytes, checksum: 146738fef19e3a23ae12dc950ba69255 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:42:41Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:18:35-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only 9780591089035 AAI9702710 (UMI)AAI9702710 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20258 eng Copyright 1996 Walls, Gina Denise Education, Community College An evaluation of an orientation to college course in a community college setting text Education Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.