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Article: The impact of honors programs on undergraduate academic performance, retention, and graduation.
- Article from:
- Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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ABSTRACT
This study examines the academic performance, retention, and degree-completion rates of two groups of honors students, those who completed all their honors program requirements (honors completers; n = 30) versus those students who started off in honors programs but did not complete these program requirements (partial honors students; n = 82). These two sets of honors students are then compared to a third group of similar students, those who had comparable pre-college academic credentials as the honors students, but who did not participate in an honors program (called high-ability students; n = 108). These three student groups entered three Pennsylvania ...