A Comparison Of Transfer And Non Transfer Students In An Open Enrollment District PDF Download

This study examines whether there are statistically significant differences in the academic success of nontransfer and transfer students from a two-year institution to the urban historically Black university. The study takes into account the influence of such factors as age, gender and race on academic success. Students were randomly selected from data compiled by the University's Office of Planning and Institutional Research, using purposeful sampling selected from students who were enrolled at the senior institution between fall semester 2000 and fall semester 2003. Of the total number of students, 90 were nontransfer students and 54 were transfer students. A two-year pertinent aspect of the study was grade point average of both groups of students. The hypothesis of this study is that there is no significant difference in success between nontransfer college students enrolled at Morgan State University and student transfers from community colleges enrolled at Morgan State University after one year of study. The null hypotheses were tested at alpha .05 level of significance. These null hypotheses would either reject or fail to reject the contention that there is a difference in the academic performance when comparing the third year grade point average performance of the nontransfer college students and the community college transfer students. The ex post facto research design utilized the t-test to compare the transfers and nontransfers with the grade point average; testing the null hypotheses, i.e. the statistical significance of the mean GPA, for transfer students. Cross-tabulation and Chi Square statistical tests were used to test the hypotheses for age and gender of the transfer and nontransfer groups. -- Abstract.