According to recent research, only 35% of full-time students complete their university degrees in 4 years....

 

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According to recent research, only 35% of full-time students complete their university degrees in 4 years. Why is this? Could universities improve academic performance and completion rates simply through the use of goal setting? Dominique Morisano tested this idea in her dissertation. Morisano followed 85 students who weren't doing very well in school for 4 months. The entire group of students was similar in many ways (GPA, demographics, native language, and academic probation standing). Half of the students (the goal group) participated in an 8-week, intensive goal- setting program, while the other half (the control group) did not. The goal-setting program helped students to set personal goals and to create detailed strategies for achieving them. Morisano found that students who received goal-setting training were less likely to withdraw from school than students in the control group. The results of Morisano's experiment on GPA are shown next. What do the results of Morisano's study (shown on the graph) illustrate? Students with higher GPAS are more likely to set goals. Having specific, difficult goals increases a student's GPA. Students performed better in their second semester than they did in their first semester. Training students in goal setting leads to an increase in their GPAs. Because students set their own goals in this experiment, they are likely to have a higher level of were set for them by professors. than students whose goals According to recent research, only 35% of full-time students complete their university degrees in 4 years. Why is this? Could universities improve academic performance and completion rates simply through the use of goal setting? Dominique Morisano tested this idea in her dissertation. Morisano followed 85 students who weren't doing very well in school for 4 months. The entire group of students was similar in many ways (GPA, demographics, native language, and academic probation standing). Half of the students (the goal group) participated in an 8-week, intensive goal- setting program, while the other half (the control group) did not. The goal-setting program helped students to set personal goals and to create detailed strategies for achieving them. Morisano found that students who received goal-setting training were less likely to withdraw from school than students in the control group. The results of Morisano's experiment on GPA are shown next. What do the results of Morisano's study (shown on the graph) illustrate? Students with higher GPAS are more likely to set goals. Having specific, difficult goals increases a student's GPA. Students performed better in their second semester than they did in their first semester. Training students in goal setting leads to an increase in their GPAs. Because students set their own goals in this experiment, they are likely to have a higher level of were set for them by professors. than students whose goals

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