The impact of college student socialization, social class, and race on need for cognition

Towards a matrix for the advancement of black working class students in South Africa's historically privileged universities

“…Low socio-economic status is a trait most strongly associated with BWC students (Padgett, Goodman, Johnson, Saichaie, Umbach and Pascarella 2010). Breier (2010, 60) argues that because of the South African political history, 'Blacks achieved the worst quality and least financed education and were -and still are -the poorest in spite of a growing elite'.…”

An examination of the relationships among United States college students' media use habits, need for cognition, and grade point average

“…Past research has found the 18-item version of the NCS to be 'gender neutral' (Cacioppo et al 1996) and largely unrelated to the ethnicity of the respondent (Padgett et al 2010). Cacioppo et al (1996), however, found NCS scores correlated with American college testing (ACT) scores in seven past studies and also with college GPA in four past studies.…”

Understanding Student Identity From a Socialization Perspective

“…Fuentes et al studied the relationship between early faculty contact outside of the classroom and later mentorship. Padgett et al (2010) also found a conditional effect related to studentfaculty interaction. Early socialization experiences were especially important for students whose intrapersonal sense of self in relation to faculty at the beginning of college was not likely to lead directly to the fostering of mentoring relationships.…”

“…In fact, as Padgett et al (2010) discuss, those who score lower on need for cognition are more likely to rely on external influences, in this case faculty, to help them make sense of their world. The movement from the source of knowledge as being external to oneself as opposed to internal is one of the key components of developing self-authorship (Baxter Magolda, 2001).…”

“…Three of these articles (Cole, 2011;Fuentes et al, 2013;Padgett et al, 2010) address the role of faculty in student development. Fuentes et al studied the relationship between early faculty contact outside of the classroom and later mentorship.…”