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Sally Baker; Megan Rose; Clemence Due; Prasheela Karan – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
University student equity cohorts experience inequitable graduate/employment outcomes. These challenges are magnified for Culturally and Linguistically Marginalised Migrant and/or Refugee students (CALMMR). Consequently, this study aimed to investigate the views of Australian university educators on the transitioning of CALMMR students from higher…
Descriptors: Universities, Foreign Countries, College Students, Refugees
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Harris-Reeves, Brooke; Pearson, Andrew; Massa, Helen – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
Successful transition for students commencing university is a focus of increasing institutional interest and resourcing to optimise student success and retention. Investigation of student expectations of university commencement and their lived experience provides an opportunity for identification of a potential mismatch which has received less…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Transitional Programs, Expectation, Student Experience
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Seary, Karen; Smith, Alice; Toth, Gabriela; Flanders, Margaret – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
The development of a student identity as it relates to the transition of commencing students to higher education has long been identified in the literature as essential to success. As importantly, the existence of a sense of belonging has been considered key to transition and success and the formation of a student identity. Less prominent in the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Disproportionate Representation
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Larsen, Amy; Cox, Sarah; Bridge, Christopher; Horvath, Deanna; Emmerling, Michael; Abrahams, Carmel – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
A 'quantum leap' (Kift, 2015) in our understanding of the transition to university studies has brought about a reimagining of the role of transition programs from attempting to remediate deficiencies in 'underprepared' students, to instead using engagement with the curriculum to instil success-oriented behaviours and attitudes in them. In…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, STEM Education, Foreign Countries, College Freshmen
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Moles, Janet; Wishart, Llewellyn – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
This article reports on an action research project that was implemented to strengthen preservice teachers' academic skills and competencies in a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education course. Strategies identified as effective included mapping assessment tasks to State and National Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Standards Frameworks and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Skill Development, Action Research, Research Projects
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Taylor, Janet A. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2008
For most students assessment guides their study and learning practice. Yet in the literature associated with the first year of study at university, few have mobilised the power of assessment to develop and engage first year undergraduate students. This paper presents a model of assessment for first year students which separates the semester into…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods