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Cynthia Worth

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Next Steps/ Future Direction of the research

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Next Steps/ Future Direction of the research

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The next steps and future direction will be to continue research on this topic.

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Persistence - firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty of opposition.
Underprepared students - students who did not performed well academically prior to attending post-secondary education
First year programs - a program at a college or university designed to assist first year students to transition from high school to post-secondary.
Resilience - the capacity to recover from difficulties.
Provisionally Admission - admission to a post-secondary institution subject to verifying various academic records or maintaining a certain grade point average.
Self-Efficacy - an individual's belief in his or her innate ability to achieve goals.

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Because this qualitative study will utilize the experiences of participants as its data, the gaps in literature have not been determined.

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1.To what do underprepared students attribute their academic second chance?
2. What is an academic second chance and its importance to underprepared students? 3. Can underprepared students be academically success in higher education?

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Many students do not perform well academically in high school.  However, they have inspirations of going to college. When they begin to apply for admission, most are not accepted at colleges and universities because of their poor academic performance. Therefore, some apply to smaller institutions ore institutions that was not their first choice.
Some post-secondary institutions have chosen to admit these students based on certain conditions.  They are referred to as provisionally admitted students. When these students are accepted and enter the schools provisionally, they are asked to participate in first year programs where they will be advised and mentored for academic success.
For these provisionally admitted, what aided in their academic improvement

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This research would be beneficial to the faculty and staff of first year post-secondary institutions. The results of the study would show that the academic programming and support for underprepared students would increase chances of academic success and could assist with future programming efforts.

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The study serves a two-fold purpose. First, it would give voice to the study participants on the impact of an academic second chance to achieve their educational goals. The second purpose would demonstrate the effects of first year programs for underprepared students and the possibilities it can create for them.

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In a previous position, I was an academic advisor/ academic mentor at a historically black women’s college.  In this role, I advised and mentored first-year students who were provisionally admitted to the college.  These young women had not done well in their academics during high school, and they were not being accepted at other 4-year institutions. This women’s college decided to give them a chance.  While at this college, some of these young women performed well academically and socially. Some of these students went on to graduate and are now working in their chosen professions or attending graduate school.

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An Academic Second Chance