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Concordia New York: A Case Study

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I conducted a study on how students at Concordia College New York like their college experience and what factors go into liking their college experience. My main focus was what makes students enjoy their experiences at college. Also what kind of things contribute to their college experience. Participants were all over 18 years old and understood their rights to refuse participation in the survey at any time. There was a variety of questions asked in the survey. There were closed open questions, multiple choice, demographics, and a rate scale. There was significant effect of level of satisfaction with current school and whether if given the opportunity to start over you would choose this school again. There was also a significant positive correlation …show more content…

The larger population was students from Concordia College. The sample included males and females from the ages 19-24. There was a mix of freshmen- seniors. Participants of this survey were mostly female, of the 50 respondents, 26 were female.

There was a variety of closed ended questions and rate scale questions. In the survey there was 14 closed ended questions and 6 rate scale questions.

The participants were instructed to fill out an informed consent form. There was also an IRRB approval submitted.

This study was conducted to determine how students at Concordia College liked their college experience. Participants were all over 18 years of age and understood their rights to refuse participation in the survey at any time.
Both male & females participated in this survey. There were more female than males who participated in this survey (See Figure 1).
The age of participants ranged from 18 to 24, the mode for the respondent’s age was 20 years old, however there was a wide distribution of ages (See Figure 2).

The single highest reported class was seniors with 18 respondents, the least reported class was sophomores (See Figure …show more content…

Most students were the first to attend college and had the support from their parents. Students indicated if they were worried about how they were going to pay for school. There was no correlation between student’s socioeconomic status and their parent’s education completion level. In Walpole‘s article it discussed how parental expectations and definitions of success vary with social status and student aspirations. In the study I conducted I found that student’s success did not vary with parent’s expectation. The reason I didn’t have similar results with the study was because many low SES students wanted to do better than their parents, so they can further support them and their motivation was different than the students in the study. Concordia College students’ motivation was themselves rather than their support from their

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