18th National Students in Transition ConferenceOctober 8, 2011

How Explicit Focus on Identity Affects Students’ Transition to College (34-CR)

Presented by: Michelle Bass E-mail: michelle.b.bass@gmail.com

College: An Educational Context to Study Adolescent

Identity Development

Identity Model: Côté & Levine (2002) Viable Social

Identity

First Year Interest GroupRepresenting Self Through Media: A Personal Journey through “This

American Life”

Digital Literacy

What aspects of identities do students’ focus on when creating digital artifacts of

self?

Findings In Progress:

How, if at all, does directly discussing and focusing on issues of individual identity affect late adolescent college

Researcher Reflections

Narrative Analysis