Extending the first-year seminar to all undecided students to improve first-term GPA and good standing¶

Design · All designs
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The article recommends extending the FYS intervention to all undecided students on the subject campus, given that the seminar's content focused on career and major exploration along with academic skill-building activities and produced significant first-term GPA and good-standing gains. The authors state that "the FYS intervention could be extended to all undecided students on the subject campus with the intention of positively effecting GPA and good standing in the first term."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Instructors must meet the education level required by regional accreditors and receive orientation to course outcomes, texts, and assessments, including review of a 100+ page instruction manual.
Instructors agree to serve as their students' academic advisors for their first semester and participate in advisor training.

Constraints¶

The study is a single-campus study, so generalizing the results to other institutions should be done with great care.
The control group could be subject to self-selection bias despite statistical similarity on several at-risk categories.

Target Learners¶

Undecided first-time-in-college (FTIC) students

Learning Goals¶

Career and major exploration
Academic skill-building
Improved first-term GPA and good academic standing

Claims¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Tampke, D. R., & Durodoye, R. (2013). Improving Academic Success for Undecided Students: A First-Year Seminar/Learning Community Approach. Learning Communities Research and Practice, 1(2), Article 3. http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol1/iss2/3

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`title`	`Extending the first-year seminar to all undecided students to improve first-term GPA and good standing`
`description`	`The article recommends extending the FYS intervention to all undecided students on the subject campus, given that the seminar's content focused on career and major exploration along with academic skill-building activi...`
`status`	`review`
`generated`	by `process:settle-candidates` on `2026-11-03`
`trust`	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
`sources`	1 — `tampke-2013`

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