Academic honors and performance

The Impact of Honors Programs on Undergraduate Academic Performance, Retention, and Graduation

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 ...

Honors Teachers and Academic Identity: What to Look For When Recruiting Honors Faculty

TRADITIONAL VS. PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: THE EFFECTS ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND MOTIVATION IN HONORS LEVEL MATHEMATICS COURSES by

Since the charge by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) to move away from the traditional learning (TL) method of instruction to more learner-controlled techniques, project-based learning (PBL) has been on the rise. This quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design study compared the academic achievement of 122 eleventh and twelfth grade students who were instructed...

Challenging traditional premedical requirements as predictors of success in medical school: the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Humanities and Medicine Program.

PURPOSE Students compete aggressively as they prepare for the MCAT and fulfill traditional premedical requirements that have uncertain educational value for medical and scientific careers and limit the scope of their liberal arts and biomedical education. This study assessed the medical school performance of humanities and social science majors who omitted organic chemistry, physics, and calcul...

What Honors Students Want (And Expect): The Views of Top Michigan High School and College Students

Often missing in an overall assessment of honors is a broad, comparative analysis of what top academic students want and expect from college and more particularly from an honors experience. Limited case studies or theoretical research articles analyzing how honors students think or perform may overlook or undervalue this important voice in the honors discourse. This article, although in some re...