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Article: Using a Student Performance Framework to Analyze Success and Failure.(analysis of study on p. 57 of this issue)
- Article from:
- Journal of College Reading and Learning
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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This case study response examines the academic performances of two first-year students with learning disabilities. While one student was placed on academic probation, the other made the Dean's list. Reasons for one's achievement and the other's failure are explored using a simple but thorough six-part framework outlining the characteristics of successful students.
Postsecondary educators and counselors regularly witness both the success and failure of academically at-risk college students. With model achievers before us, we can identify the characteristics of successful students in a simple but thorough six-part outline (Nelson & Blumenthal, 1996). To summarize ...