The Effect That First Year Experience Courses Have On Student Athletes Academic Success When Only Student Athletes Are Enrolled Versus When Student Athletes Are Enrolled With Non Athletes

Download or read book The Effect that First-year Experience Courses Have on Student Athletes' Academic Success when Only Student Athletes are Enrolled Versus when Student Athletes are Enrolled with Non-athletes written by Scott A. Amundsen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study examined whether the academic success, specifically the grade-point average, NCAA progress-towards-degree, and freshman to sophomore retention rates, of student athletes was influenced by participating in a first-year experience course populated exclusively by student-athletes and taught by athletic-academic personnel compared to student-athletes participating in an integrated first-year experience course populated by the general student body and taught by a faculty member not associated with the athletic-academic support staff at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). The results of the study showed that no significant differences existed between the groups regarding academic performance and NCAA progress-towards degree. There was also very little difference in freshman to sophomore retention rates between the two groups with the exception of white males participating in low-profile sports. The quantitative data for this study were collected from EKU's student information system."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.