Student identity has been seen as factor in the prediction of educational attainment, however identity can forever be in flux and relative to the moment of engagement in a task/environment. So how important is a student's identity on attainment during their undergrad studies?
Identity or self concept of students is constantly evolving. Students come to the university to not only learn but to find out who they are and what they might become.
Perhaps identity as it relates to a particular: job, vocation or industry and how that develops during education ...
@Daniel JT Edmonson
Can you please rephrase question to make it clearer?
Identity or self concept of students is constantly evolving. Students come to the university to not only learn but to find out who they are and what they might become.
Identity development is a continuous process. Educational attainment is both cause and effect in that process.
Absolutely important. Classes are expensive. If student aren't able to identify their plan and goals students could find themselves participating in courses irrelevant to their course of study. Students go to college and tend to alter their decisions quite often, but if they are able to minimize the different fields they are interested in, the time they spend in college could be more beneficial to their course of action.
The identity they walk-in with is essential for their performance. However, how these identities shifts time they walk-out of HEIs may provide insight on educational attainment during undergraduate studies.
In order to tackle the possible connection between students’ identity and performance some concepts must be clearly identified.
Performance:
- on what? Just the compulsory and tangible part of curriculum? What about optional activities and experiences made available by the HEI (internships, teaching assistance, research projects, etc)? How to considera other experiences (entrepreneurship, work, financial hardship)
Identity:
- Are you discussin whose definition of identity? Teacher’s view of students’ identity or self-perception of students’ own identity or even how a group of students see one and each particular individual identity among that group?
Time:
- Are you thinking of a one time reference or several points of analysis through out an interval (lets say, two to four years)?
Identity has two connotation,therefore in the line of personal potential , the drive leads to achievements secondly in line to association , the environment dictates the results.
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