Effective Methods for Supporting At-Risk Students

Effective Methods for Supporting At-Risk Students

What is considered at-risk students:

• The students can be termed or considered at risk for having academic success in their higher education for different reasons.
• Manning & Baruth (1995) states that this category of student’s knowledge, skills, academic ability, and motivation are very much below those of normal students in the curriculum or college in which they are enrolled.
• Furthermore, these students have a likelihood of displaying any form of characteristics like unrealistic grades, a low self-concept in academic, expectations in careers, career objectives that are unfocussed, external locus of control, extrinsic motivation, low self-efficacy, a belief that the process of learning is entire of memorization, study skills that…