Pohle, P.J. (2019) Academic success and persistence in higher education: A motivational orientation approach. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Educational degrees, especially a college degree, yield very substantial individual and economic returns. Educational losses are significant in the U.S. and at SUNY Geneseo, therefore a better understanding of the underlying determinants for academic outcomes would be desirable. To connect determinants with academic outcomes, a construct of self-determination theory will be used. In contrast with the reviewed literature, the results do not display a connection between socio-economic, demographic and geographic and the motivational orientation of students at SUNY Geneseo. Likewise, no connection was found between motivational orientation and academic performance or graduate school attendance. However, when taking these findings and the reviewed literature into account, this research cannot possibly conclude that self-determination theory forms or does not form a feasible framework for understanding the connection between socio-economic, demographic and geographic on the one hand, and academic variables on the other hand among SUNY Geneseo students.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | drs. Steen, P.J.M. van |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:17 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:17 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/566 |
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