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Phase-Adequate Engagement at the Post-School Transition Author, Julia Dietrich MLA Citation :   Dietrich, J., Parker, P., Salmela-Aro, K. (2012). Phase-adequate engagement at the post-school transition. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1575- 1593.  Summary:    This article is about the transition from High School to College or career pathways. The transition presents developmental challenges that are handled differently by every individual. Coping with these challenges differs depending  on the individual, their social network and cultural  conditions. Once an adolescent choses a vocation, they must do all necessary tasks to fulfill their goal. How these individuals deal with the necessary steps of completion will determine their post-school transition patterns. Information About Author:   Julia Dietrich, is a research associate at the Institute of Educational Science in the Department of Educational Psychology. Phili...

Jane Christiansen Research in the Disciplines Professor Goeller Research Proposal 17 October 2017 Working Title: The Underlying Causes and Long Term Effects of Undecided College Majors Topic: The topic I will be looking into is the path of “undecided” students in college and the potential positive and negative effects that it has on an individual’s academic career. Additionally, I would like to explore how these undecided students perform later in life in their careers. The current conversation regarding this topic is whether or not the “undecided path” is beneficial or not. On the affirmative side, it is argued that taking introductory courses and core requirements before picking a course of study ensures that a student wants to pursue that discipline over another one. Introductory courses can introduce students to different topics that they may have not been exposed to in high school and find interest in. The exposure to these new subjects result in most students d...

Issues In Advising The Undecided College Student This book includes different Chapters, each written by a different author who specializes in Academic Advising. The particular chapter that I am basing my literature review is Chapter 1: A Profile of Undecided College Students written by Willard Lewallen. Interview with Willard Lewallen regarding the efficiency of students attending community college. MLA Citation:  Lewallen, Willard C., et al.  Issues in Advising the Undecided College Student . 1994. This Chapter discusses the different categories that Undecided students are placed into. Because there is no direct cause for indecision, it is hard to diagnose it's origins. So far, there have been many different proposed causes for indecision including family interaction, parental influence, family dysfunctionality, and anxiety. Some students are reluctant to commit to a major because the idea of work repels them. For now, grouping students into categories based on th...

Works Cited Arum, Richard, and Josipa Roksa. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses . The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Arum, Richard, and Josipa Roksa. Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates . The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Freedman, Liz. “The Developmental Disconnect in Choosing a Major.” The Mentor , dus.psu.edu/mentor/2013/06/disconnect-choosing-major/. Lewallen, Willard C., et al. Issues in Advising the Undecided College Student . 1994. Onink, Troy. “Bad College Advice.” Forbes , Forbes Magazine, 8 Oct. 2012, www.forbes.com/sites/troyonink/2010/12/16/bad-college-advice-the-undeclared-major/. Vesper, Nick, et al. Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make . Mason Crest Publishers, 2003.

Aspiring Adults Adrift MLA Citation:   Arum, Richard, and Josipa Roksa.  Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates . The University of Chicago Press, 2014. This book is about the failings of undergraduate education that shape an individual's adulthood. The educational path that a student choses to pursue in college will affect if they have a delayed transition into adulthood. With the privatization of college education today, colleges have become more focused on social engagement than catering to their students well-being, increasing the chances of "emerging adulthood" post-graduation. Although these students do not have a clear picture of their futures, they are all optimistic that their college degree will help them later on in life. The authors of Aspiring Adults Adrift are   Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. Richard Arum is an American Sociologist of Education who specializes in school discipline and inequality in higher education....

Research Blog #3: Three Academic Sources Post a list of at least three academic sources that you have found and, ideally, looked at or looked into. Explain how these sources are helping you to refine your topic. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses  by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa MLA Citation:   Arum, Richard, and Roksa, Josipa .  Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses . The University of Chicago Press, 2011. This book is about how more college students today are not sure about how their future career paths, and how academic effort among college students has declined in the recent decades. "Many students entering higher education today seem to understand that college education is important but have little specific information about commitment to a particular vision of the future" (Arum & Roksa 34). At this age, students are still unsure of what they would like to do in their future. There is a section in this book t...

The Undecided College Student: An Academic and Career Advising Challenge MLA Citation: Gordon, Virginia N., and George E Steele.  The Undecided College Student: an Academic and Career Advising Challenge . Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 2015. This reading addresses all important topics concerning undecided college students. It acknowledges that there is not one sole cause of indecision in students. This book also addresses the cultural differences in decision making. For example, Americans for the most part make their own career decisions while Taiwanese students conform to familial and societal expectations. Throughout the book there are case studies that investigate why students are undecided and how they can be grouped together to better understand causation including family influences and emotional intelligence. Author Virginia N. Gordon is an expert in the field of academic advising. She has been a professor of education at Ohio State University for 21 years. Here she pr...