Chapter 1 of Adjustment Problems
Introduction
Majority of fourth year graduates in high school are planning to enter college in the next enrollment. Most of them are excited to be finally out of the world where they are childishly treated and into the world that they’re part of the highest level of education, or simply known as college.
But, what exactly should they expect from it? Once these seniors in high schools take their first step in becoming college freshmen, they would soon discover that tertiary level is a place where major adjustments take place.
Throughout this assessment, we are going to survey the different adjustments the current freshmen in AUP are going through. We’re going to survey what are the problems that they would face upon entering college and how they would pass through it and overcome those problems.
Theoretical Framework
As a guide in assessing the problems met by freshmen students in AUP, our study used the “Tinto’s Theory of Freshmen Development” (1987). According to Tinto’s theory, there are three stages in freshmen adjustments: separation, transition, incorporation. Separation is a stage in which the freshmen students move away from their home environment. This stage is where the freshman moves away from his ‘comfort zone’, which is, his house, his “barkadas” from high school, and his subjects that have been routinely organized since grade school. Transition is the stage where freshmen students are torn between the new environment and the old environment. This stage is where the freshman starts to have difficulty grasping the concept of the new environment he’s currently in, and he keeps on comparing his old environment to the new one. Incorporation is the stage of freshmen where they have completely adjusted to being college students. This is where the freshman gets hold of how things work around the campus and how to respond to them.
Conceptual Framework
There are two kinds of
Majority of fourth year graduates in high school are planning to enter college in the next enrollment. Most of them are excited to be finally out of the world where they are childishly treated and into the world that they’re part of the highest level of education, or simply known as college.
But, what exactly should they expect from it? Once these seniors in high schools take their first step in becoming college freshmen, they would soon discover that tertiary level is a place where major adjustments take place.
Throughout this assessment, we are going to survey the different adjustments the current freshmen in AUP are going through. We’re going to survey what are the problems that they would face upon entering college and how they would pass through it and overcome those problems.
Theoretical Framework
As a guide in assessing the problems met by freshmen students in AUP, our study used the “Tinto’s Theory of Freshmen Development” (1987). According to Tinto’s theory, there are three stages in freshmen adjustments: separation, transition, incorporation. Separation is a stage in which the freshmen students move away from their home environment. This stage is where the freshman moves away from his ‘comfort zone’, which is, his house, his “barkadas” from high school, and his subjects that have been routinely organized since grade school. Transition is the stage where freshmen students are torn between the new environment and the old environment. This stage is where the freshman starts to have difficulty grasping the concept of the new environment he’s currently in, and he keeps on comparing his old environment to the new one. Incorporation is the stage of freshmen where they have completely adjusted to being college students. This is where the freshman gets hold of how things work around the campus and how to respond to them.
Conceptual Framework
There are two kinds of