Determination is Needed to Succeed as a Nontraditional College Student Annotated Bibliography

Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, vol. no. Winter2007, pp. EBSCOhost. This article is a scholarly article written by a psychologist and meant for undergrad students this is why it's credible. University of Utah Press, 2016. EBSCOhost. This source is an e-book, and it's relevant to my paper because it shows how real life and responsibilities can affect some nontraditional students. This book is credible because Jeff Metcalf is a professor of English at the University of Utah and has been the recipient of numerous awards. I plan on using this book to show some of the different obstacles nontraditional students face when they return to school. Peer Review, vol. no. Winter2011, pp. EBSCOhost. This is an article that teaches us how adult learners can help teachers learn different ways to incorporate different materials.

et al. Achievement Goals, Failure Attributions, and Academic Performance in Nontraditional and Traditional College Students. Journal of Social Behavior & Personality, vol. no. Sept. Most of the traditional students work while they are enrolled, and in most cases, they give their work highest priority which provides them with a lot of experience. In most cases, the nontraditional students are at high risk of dropping out, exclusively within the first year of enrollment in the tertiary institutions. Goncalves, Sally A. and Dunja Trunk. Obstacles to Success for the Nontraditional Student in Higher Education. Ross-Gordon, Jovita M. Research on Adult Learners: Supporting the Needs of a Student Population That Is No Longer Nontraditional. Peer Review, vol. no. Winter2011, pp. and Chance W. Lewis. Nontraditional College Students: Assumptions, Perceptions, and Directions for a Meaningful Academic Experience.

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol. no. This has made them not to raise any complains or concerns majorly those issues which affect them precisely as the nontraditional students. There are nontraditional students especially those who have parental responsibilities have concerns over their children while they are in lecture rooms thus finding hard to balance the academic work and their responsibilities. Self-determination and hard work are vital to the success of the nontraditional students. They should always try to their level best to at least balance off some of their responsibilities concerning the academic work hence leading to better grades on the overall performance of the institutions. Taniguchi, Hiromi, and Gayle Kaufman. This is a credible source because both writers are sociology professors, one at Davidson College and the other at the University of Louisville and being professors, they have experiences working with both traditional and nontraditional students.

Part-time enrollment greatly affects the completion of the college education. There are a lot of tertiary institutions which have this program that was aimed majorly on those students who have employed in most of the organization. Most of the students are not in a position to multitask which has greatly led to the low-quality results at the end of the course. It is more recommendable nontraditional students to be studying when they are young, with the high cognitive ability and be have self-determination as this would increase the chances of completing the course. Warden's and Myers' article will be useful because they did studies on students over the age of 25 (nontraditional) and also on students under 25 (traditional) to see what motivates them to go to college and get a high GPA.

This article is credible because the writers is a professor of psychology and the article is written for other Doctors of Psychology. The relationship between the two variables in academic performance has been fully explored in addressing the factors which lead to the attained results. According to this research, nontraditional students achieve the GPA of 72 which is relatively higher than the one attained by the traditional students. Nontraditional students are determined, self-motivated, hardworking, and they work under minimal supervision.