THE IMPACT OF THE 1-YEAR-RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT ON STUDENTS PREFERRINGPART-TIME STUDY

This article examines the effect of a 1-year-residency requirement on master of social work students' psychophysical health, general well-be ing, perceived workload, and grade point average. The study contribute s to the existing research in two ways. First, the sample size was suf ficiently large to detect important differences between part-time and full-time students. Second, the study addressed the previously neglect ed issue of whether students who Prefer to attend school on a part-tim e basts are negatively affected by a 1-year-residency policy. The stud y found no difference in outcome between part-time and full-time stude nts who were enrolled in first-year courses. But when part-time studen ts were obliged to complete their second-year courses on a full-time b asis, their academic performance suffered compared with that of 2-year students.