What's S.T.A.M.P.?
S.T.A.M.P. is Psi Beta's ongoing student-led research project. The purpose of S.T.A.M.P. is to look into behavioral correlations of academic motivations, personality traits, and transfer success of Santa Monica College students to four-year institutions.
Why Santa Monica College?
For the past 24 years, Santa Monica College has ranked first in transferring from community college to UC schools. Moreover, Santa Monica College is ranked first for number of Latino and African-American transfers to UC four-year institutions. Santa Monica College can and should be at the forefront of this research, as to greater solidify its reputation as the top Community College in California and represent what it means to be a successful community college nationally and internationally.
Several studies on academic success in university students have been shown significant results. Due to the recent success of these studies, it is imperative that more research needs to be done on the transfer student population. Santa Monica College is special in that it hosts a specific, significantly sized, yet unstudied group of these students whose data would be invaluable in understanding the relationship between transfer success, academic motivation, and personality. SMC has incredible untapped potential for large group studies of those transfer students, especially when the primary goal of so many students and faculty on our campus is to mold students into the best transfer applicants they can be.
S.T.A.M.P. is Psi Beta's ongoing student-led research project. The purpose of S.T.A.M.P. is to look into behavioral correlations of academic motivations, personality traits, and transfer success of Santa Monica College students to four-year institutions.
Why Santa Monica College?
For the past 24 years, Santa Monica College has ranked first in transferring from community college to UC schools. Moreover, Santa Monica College is ranked first for number of Latino and African-American transfers to UC four-year institutions. Santa Monica College can and should be at the forefront of this research, as to greater solidify its reputation as the top Community College in California and represent what it means to be a successful community college nationally and internationally.
Several studies on academic success in university students have been shown significant results. Due to the recent success of these studies, it is imperative that more research needs to be done on the transfer student population. Santa Monica College is special in that it hosts a specific, significantly sized, yet unstudied group of these students whose data would be invaluable in understanding the relationship between transfer success, academic motivation, and personality. SMC has incredible untapped potential for large group studies of those transfer students, especially when the primary goal of so many students and faculty on our campus is to mold students into the best transfer applicants they can be.