Effect of Study Skills Participation on Freshmen Academic Performance

• In Event: 14.024 - Language, Reading, and Writing

Abstract

Study skills program participation was examined in relation to academic performance indicators (APIs), controlling for gender and ethnicity. Following a retrospective predictive research design using archival data (2003-2008) of a formal study skills program, criterion sampling was used to identify the study skills group (n = 714) and a comparison group (n = 714). Descriptive statistics revealed statistically significant differences in APIs, with women outperforming men and Hispanic women outperforming all other gender and ethnic combinations. A series of regressions indicated statistically significant predictive relationships between the number of sessions completed and APIs, but not program participation and APIs.

Authors

• John Jordan, Sam Houston State University

• Julie P. Combs, Sam Houston State University

• Susan Troncoso Skidmore, Sam Houston State University