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New research from George DuPaul, professor of school psychology and associate dean for research in Lehigh University’s College of Education, and colleagues confirms students with ADHD face consequential challenges in succeeding and completing college and predicts ways academic success can be improved. The paper, “Academic Trajectories of College Students with and without ADHD: Predictors of Four-Year Outcomes,” by DuPaul and colleagues from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, University of Rhode Island, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was published in the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
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February 24, 2021
College students with ADHD score half a grade level below their peers from freshman year onward and face a higher-than-average risk for dropping out of higher education, according to a study published in the
Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Researchers reviewed annual psychological and educational evaluations of 201 college students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) 97 receiving medication, 104 not receiving medication and compared them to 205 college students without ADHD. Demographic, psychological, and service-related (such as receipt of academic support) variables were also considered as predictors of performance, semester GPA shifts, progress toward graduation, and self-reported study skill strategies.
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In one of largest and most comprehensive investigations of college students with ADHD ever conducted, new research confirms students with ADHD face significant challenges across all four years of college and predicts ways academic outcomes can be improved.