How Explicit Focus on Identity Affects
Students’ Transition to College (34-CR)
Presented by: Michelle Bass E-mail: [email protected]
18th National Students in Transition Conference
October 8, 2011
College: An Educational
Context to Study Adolescent
Identity Development
First Year Interest Group
Representing Self Through Media:
A Personal Journey through “This
American Life”
Identity Model: Côté &
Levine (2002) Viable Social
Identity
Narrative Analysis
Digital Literacy
Findings In Progress:
What aspects of identities
do students’ focus on when
creating digital artifacts of
self?
How, if at all, does directly
discussing and focusing on
issues of individual identity
affect late adolescent college
Researcher Reflections