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Making a Way to Success: Self-Authorship and Academic Achievement of First-Year African American Students at Historically Black Colleges
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Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
The purpose of the study was to estimate the relationship between academic achievement in college, as defined by first-year grade point average (GPA), and self-authorship among African American first-year students at an HBCU (N = 140), using hierarchical linear regression techniques. A single research question guided this investigation: What is…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Achievement, Success, College Freshmen