Table 1.
T1–T2 Gains in College Adjustment
| |
T1 raw scores and percentiles |
T2 raw scores and percentiles |
Percentile gain | t-Value | p-Value | Sample size | Cohen's d | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raw mean (range) | Percentile mean | Raw mean (range) | Percentile mean | ||||||
| SACQ subscales | |||||||||
| Academic adjustment | 134 (99–165) | 27 | 141 (97–168 | 42 | 15 | 1.86 | 0.085 | 16 | 0.32 |
| Emotional adjustment | 77 (39–117) | 16 | 85 (34–129) | 31 | 15 | 4.13 | <0.001 | 16 | 0.36 |
| Social adjustment | 103 (68–129) | 18 | 115 (82–160) | 31 | 13 | 3.29 | 0.005 | 16 | 0.59 |
| Institutional attachment | 96 (66–114) | 31 | 103 (86–124) | 54 | 23 | 2.70 | 0.017 | 16 | 0.51 |
| College adjustment (full scale) | 373 (265–444) | 18 | 402 (288–493) | 34 | 16 | 4.25 | <0.001 | 16 | 0.49 |
t-values, p-values, and Cohen's d were calculated using paired samples t-tests with the raw SACQ scores from semesters 1 (T1) and 2 (T2).
SACQ, Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire.